Tech In Asia :: Remember how we reported on the New York Times having joined Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social network, yesterday? Well, the New York Times‘ Weibo has been suspended already, less than 24 hours after its launch, with no clear reason for this having happened. As for the brand-new NYT Chinese edition of its news site, which went online this morning, that’s still unblocked and working fine in China – albeit quite slowly, since it has overseas servers, not ones based in mainland China.
Suspended account: http://weibo.com/nytchinese (as of June 28, redirected currently)
An explainer - Continue to read Steven Millward, www.techinasia.com



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