Sina Weibo

Sina Corp is an online Chinese media group operating Sina Weibo, a Chinese-language microblog loosely modelled on Twitter. Sina Weibo has more than half of the China market. Sina Corp also owns Sina.com, which is the biggest Chinese language infotainment web portal, according to Wikipedia. Sina Corp’s global headquarters are in Shanghai. Its rivals are Baidu and Sohu.com.

RUBBER DUCK

Mystery of the deflated Rubber Duck: were cigarette butts to blame?

16 May 2013

Now Chinese mainland tourists are blamed for the demise of Rubber Duck: rumours circulate that cigarette butts turned art installation into an omelette.

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Senior planning agency official sacked over graft

14 May 2013

A deputy head of the mainland's top planning agency has been sacked for corruption after allegations against him were first posted online, media said yesterday, in Beijing's latest move against...

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Censored Sina Weibo posts translated into English by HKU project

14 May 2013

Some posts deleted by censors from mainland microblogging site Sina Weibo have been recovered and are now available in English.

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Plane will not wait for you to buy cigarettes, says flight attendant to policewoman

8 May 2013

Rumours of a Hong Kong flight attendant rejecting demands from a uniformed military police officer became an instant hit on weibo. The officer wanted to delay take-off so she could go out and buy...

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Sina, Alibaba resurrect tie-up talks

29 Apr 2013

It looks like I may have been premature in declaring last month that talks for a tie-up between leading web portal Sina and e-commerce leader Alibaba were dead.

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Luxury show organiser denies Sanya 'romp' rumours

4 Apr 2013

Several mainland celebrities were photographed at the parties and the images soon began circulating on the internet. Many of them took to social media to deny the rumours, Sina reported.

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Opinion

Michael Cox

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

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Building the 'Chinese dream'

Images spread on social media on Sunday of towering, luxurious palaces - sometimes known as government office buildings in China - instantly stirring up debate over whether these were part of...

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State media duped again by fake Time cover of Wu Renbao

This time, a fake report by western satirists was probably not to blame.

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Chinese nationalism flares up ahead of Xi's visit to Russia

Angry Chinese nationalist comments demanding the return of territories flooded the official microblogs of Russia's embassy to China on Tuesday, ahead of President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow.

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SOCIAL MEDIA

Graphic 'travel blog' adds to India's tourism woes

India's tourism board is fighting to salvage the country's reputation after graphic photos of "decomposed dead bodies" and garbage piling up in the Ganges river appeared in the Chinese blogosphere...

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China's fake presidential election inspires fake election fever

So much effort went into making China's presidential election look legitimate that netizens decided to go along with the ruse and pretend seats were actually contested.

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Chongqing man saved by quick-acting police after posting suicide note online

A young man in China’s southwestern Sichuan province was rescued by police early on Monday after posting a suicide note on Weibo, China’s twitter-like service, according to Chinese media reports...

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