“Hong Kong is always championing its free market laurels. Do they think about all the fresh water, vegetables and grain [the mainland] supplies to them?” a microblogger wrote referring to the new...
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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.
3 Mar 2013
US universities have responded to China’s exploding demand for American higher education with branch campuses and aggressive recruiting. Now, some are trying to boost their brands by casting...
2 Mar 2013
US universities have responded to China’s exploding demand for American higher education with branch campuses and aggressive recruiting. Now, some are trying to boost their brands by casting...
26 Feb 2013
Two Chinese men on an Air France flight recently shocked their fellow passengers by snatching eight bottles of wine from the airline service cart, ignoring objections from other travellers on...
25 Feb 2013
A hawkish PLA general, three days after his social networking debut, found himself in the middle of a microblogging storm over a strange post published under his name on Sunday night.
Two years on since small numbers of activists attempted to break through China's political deadlock, reliance on technology is still blamed for the failure.
Less than a day after former Taiwanese premier Frank Hsieh Chang-ting verified his account on Sina Weibo, access to it was inexplicably blocked. Hsieh started his microblog on February 9 and...
Former Taiwan premier Frank Hsieh Chang-Ting is probably the first heavyweight from the Democratic Progressive Party with his own fan club on the Chinese mainland.
This latest brouhaha highlights the risk that people who do business in China face when they speak too candidly in public forums about major official organisations like the People's Daily, the...
A man in China’s southwestern Sichuan province has offered a flat as a reward to anyone who finds his missing dog.
A new US taxation act should be the newest addition to China’s anti-graft tool kit – at least according to many Chinese netizens.
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