Saturday, February 8, 2014

Rocket Internet rolls out Lamido, yet another online marketplace for the Philippines


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The Chinese websites for the Wall Street Journal ( cn.wsj.com faced ) and Reuters ( cn.reuters.com ) have both been blocked by the Great Firewall of China. You can check the status of these websites in real-time here and here , respectively. Their English-language sites are still reachable.
This latest round of censorship comes just a couple days after the Communist Party’s 3rd Plenum meeting ended, and media have been publishing their analyses. On November 13, the New York Times revealed United States bank JP Morgan Chase’s shady dealings with the daughter of former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao , Wen Ruchun.
Last summer, the Chinese faced government blocked several high profile news sites after revelations about a secret fortune held by then-premier Wen Jiabao surfaced. The New York Times , Bloomberg , and BusinessWeek were all added to the long list of censored websites, and those blocks remain in effect today.
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Rocket Internet rolls out Lamido, yet another online marketplace for the Philippines


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