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Brushing off censorship fears, Weibo eyes expansion to 'Chinese-speaking world'
Chinese social media giant Weibo is making a push into foreign markets and is considering launching new products in different languages, a senior executive said, brushing off concerns over censorship and credibility. The Twitter-style platform has long been prominent in China, known for its heavy ...
A social media post by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing about the trade agreement between the two nations was being partially censored Monday, with the WeChat article visible but blocked from forwarding or sharing. Separate posts on the death of former President George H.W. Bush ...
A remark by Prince Akishino, who will become heir to the Chrysanthemum throne next year, stirs controversy over how freely members of the Imperial family can speak about contentious matters.
Google workers push to stop censored search engine Project Dragonfly targeting China users
More than 200 engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc.'s Google demanded in an open letter on Tuesday that the company end development of a censored search engine for Chinese users, escalating earlier protests against the secretive project. Google has described the search app, known ...
CNN drops lawsuit after White House ends effort to bar reporter
The Trump administration on Monday abruptly dropped its effort to bar CNN reporter Jim Acosta from the White House, but warned he could have his credentials pulled again if he doesn't follow guidelines governing journalists' behavior. The White House said reporters would be permitted one ...
China extends censorship campaign to Twitter, carrying out 'silent slaughter'
Despite being blocked in China, Twitter and other overseas social media sites have long been used freely by activists and government critics to address subjects that are censored in domestic forums — until now. As Beijing presses a campaign to throttle any remaining voices that ...
U.S. judge orders White House to restore press pass to CNN's Jim Acosta
A U.S. judge on Friday ordered the White House to temporarily restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press pass, which was revoked after a contentious news conference last week with President Donald Trump. The White House withdrew Acosta's credentials on Nov. 7 in an escalation ...
Trade war and censors spell reckoning for China's giant tech scene
Wang Miaoyi's small one-bedroom apartment, which doubles as her design studio, is overflowing with game magazines, figurines and boxes of sci-fi novels. The 30-year old game developer is a child of the county's tech boom: She studied at one of China's top universities and her ...
China orders broadcasters and websites to avoid celebrity hype, stop using fake statistics
Chinese broadcasters and online entertainment sites should avoid celebrity hype and crack down on fake audience and click-through rates, state media quoted the National Radio and Television Administration as saying. The edict comes after Beijing ordered A-list movie star Fan Bingbing to pay about 884 ...
Exiled Chinese author Ma Jian in Hong Kong as arts center agrees to host talks
Dissident Chinese author Ma Jian arrived in Hong Kong Friday vowing to speak at the city's literary festival as a major arts center that had pulled out of hosting him changed its mind. The new Tai Kwun arts complex, which hosts the Hong Kong International ...
Hong Kong arts center cancels event by dissident Chinese author
A Hong Kong arts center hosting the city's high-profile literary festival has canceled appearances by exiled Chinese writer Ma Jian, the author said Thursday, as Beijing tightens its grip on the semi-autonomous city. It is the latest blow to freedom of speech in Hong Kong ...
Dissident cartoonist Badiucao cancels Hong Kong show after China 'threats'
Hong Kong organizers of an exhibition by a dissident Chinese-Australian cartoonist, a persistent thorn in the side of leaders in Beijing, cancelled the event in the Chinese-ruled city on Friday given what they said were threats by China. The exhibition by Badiucao was to have ...
