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...
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Weibo, which means micro blog in Chinese, is a Chinese Twitter-like online networking tool. Hundreds of millions of netizens across China use Weibo as a platform to exchange information and voice opinions on social issues in a nation under strict news censorship. Sina Weibo is currently the largest social networking website in China with 368 million registered users as of June 2012.
16 Feb 2013
US basketball superstar Kobe Bryant surprised his Chinese fans on Thursday by opening an account on Sina Weibo, the popular Chinese-language microblogging service. His first message, "Valentine's...
13 Feb 2013
A popular Chinese blogger – believed by some to be working for Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping – returned to his Sina Weibo microblog on Tuesday to condemn North Korea’s latest...
11 Feb 2013
For weeks, a mysterious microblog has been lifting a veil from around China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, with candid snapshots from his travels that defy the typically stiff and staged images of the...
5 Feb 2013
A "mysterious" weibo account devoted to publishing the daily activities of Chinese president-in-waiting Xi Jinping intrigued Chinese media a
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What happens when you are stuck in a taxi without enough small change to pay the fare?
Li Yong (not his real name), a taxi driver in China's southwestern Chongqing, was astonished by an "...
Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan’s recent appointment to Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Beijing’s top advisory body, has generated a frenzy of discussions on China's...
Sina is unlikely to reach tie-up deals with either Alibaba or Baidu due to numerous distractions at all 3 companies, and even if a deal is reached it's likely to be a bad one.
Mainland businesspeople are influential not only in the country's commercial sector, but in cyberspace.
The power of social media may have given Hollywood star Brad Pitt cold feet. After attracting a lot of buzz with his debut on Sina Weibo on Monday, he quickly deleted his first post.
Four Chinese government ships entered territorial waters around Japan-controlled islands at the centre of a dispute yesterday. The marine surveillance ships were seen moving within 12 nautical...
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