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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WITHOUT THE INTERNET Pan Shiyi would be just another Chinese billionaire property mogul. But online he has become one of China’s most famous microbloggers, with nearly 15m followers on Sina Weibo, the ...

As microblogging sites like Twitter search for ways to become profitable, services in Asia may have more options for making money, such as offering games and selling virtual goods, owners of those ...

Microblogging services are taking off among China’s fast-growing Internet population, but regulation by an authoritarian government is challenging their growth. Twitter and some of its local rivals ...

China plans to require users of the country’s Twitter-like microblogs to register with their real identities, and has already begun trials of the system in five cities, according to a Chinese official ...

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 ...

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 ...