Google having tough ride in China

Google, the US-based Internet giant, has once again landed in a controversy in China, with the government on Wednesday saying it has completed a probe into charges that the company operated in the country without proper licence. The Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (MII) said it had finished investigation into the license case on Google's new Chinese language site and the result would be publicised soon. The new controversy comes on the heels of strong criticism of Google in the US for yielding to Chinese demands to censor search results so that sensitive words such as "democracy" and "Tiananmen Square" were removed and not seen by Chinese net surfers. MII spokesman Wang Lijian said the ministry paid great attention to the case of Google.cn that was reported in the media. He said the Beijing Communications Administration was still investigating the problem and that its results, too, would soon be published, Xinhua news agency reported. More...

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