Wang Yin, a 24-year-old graduate student at the elite Tsinghua University in Beijing, constantly uses Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social networking site. “On Weibo, I’m mostly interested in ...

Facebook and Twitter might be impossible to access here in China, but we still have something called microblogs. Millions of users are able to take advantage of these (after sensitive words have been ...

Encouraging a culture of charity in China would help the nation emerge as a more benign economic superpower. Nevertheless, donating and volunteering in China is easier said than done, due to ...

A visit to the offices of Sina’s microblog by a top Communist Party official raises questions over freedom of speech. Beijing’s Communist Party chief Liu Qi recently visited the weibo, or ...

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BEIJING - A decade ago, the most favored medium for Chinese people to air their complaints was perhaps through the state-owned China Central Television network. However, the Internet has superseded ...

China's wary government is a world champion in internet censorship, but Communist Party leaders now want to master the trickier feat of actively shaping online opinion. The results so far don't match ...

In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk. One of the clearest is: no gossip about top political leaders, their families or internal party affairs. But just as ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's wary government is a world champion in internet censorship, but Communist Party leaders now want to master the trickier feat of actively shaping online opinion. The results ...

The deadline for real-name registration on China's Twitter-like microblogging sites has come and gone and, to the relief of some, has been uneventful. Users who haven't verified their identities can ...

BEIJING - In handling emergencies like protests or extreme weather, local Chinese governments are increasingly turning to microblogs to offer information and answer queries from the public. The number ...

China has shut 50 microblogs for distributing pornography and carrying "vulgar content", state media said on Monday, as the government steps up monitoring of the internet. China has shut 50 microblogs ...