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Article: China blocks access to New York Times web site.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- December 20, 2008
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China blocks access to New York Times web site
New York, Dec 20 (PTI) -- Chinese authorities have blocked access to the web site of The New York Times even while lifting some of the restrictions recently imposed on the online edition of other media outlets.
When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried to connect on Friday morning to nytimes.Com, they received a message that the site was not available, The Times said, adding that some users were cut off on Thursday and the blocking was still in effect on Saturday morning.
But the Chinese-language Web sites of BBC, Voice of America and Asiaweek, all of which had been ...