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The rise of social media in China

By Mon, Aug 01, 2011 11:30AM UTC View Comments Pic: AP.

China has long fought to manage the amount of communication published online. The recent Wenzhoubar train crash, which saw 39 people lose their lives, is being been cited as a landmark in the changing face of the Chinese web which is seeing government officials battling to control the message amongst social media platforms – with the...

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Report: Beijing-Shanghai railway speed claim faked

By Wed, Jun 22, 2011 4:09PM UTC View Comments Crew members enter a CRH high speed train before a test run at Shanghai's Hongqiao Railway Station in China. Pic: AP.

SHANGHAI (AP) — A report says China’s Railway Ministry has exaggerated how fast the new high-speed railway between Beijing and Shanghai is meant to run and that the country’s own technology is still plagued by problems. The financial magazine Caijing cites a former top engineer at the Railway Ministry, Zhou Yimin, as saying the trains’...

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