China's internet regulator fines websites for breaking reporting regulations
China's internet regulator has fined several websites for violating internet publication rules and ordered them to "rectify" pages that ran news stories based on their own reporting, state media has reported. Government rules restricting the publication online of "self-edited" news and information have been widely ...
Republican platform blasts China on isles, rights, trade
The U.S. Republican Party has come out guns blazing against China in its latest party platform — a marked contrast from the softer tone of its last charter in 2012. The 2016 platform, released late Monday, appears to seize on the populist sentiment that catapulted ...
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced long-stalled legislation on Thursday that would make it a federal crime to share sexually explicit material of a person online without the subject's consent. The "Intimate Privacy Protection Act" is an effort several years in the making ...
Beijing using English-language videos, tweets and op-eds in PR push ahead of South China Sea ruling
Ahead of a key international arbitration court ruling next Tuesday over China's territorial dispute in the South China Sea, Beijing has unleashed an unprecedented English-language public relations push to tell its side of the story. Newspapers across the world have carried editorials by Chinese ambassadors, ...
Facebook Japan launches social sharing of streamed music
Facebook Japan has launched a music streaming function, Music Stories, on the Japanese version of its social networking platform. "The function was announced in the U.S. in November last year. Music streaming services AWA and D Hits have cooperated with us to make it available ...
China launches crackdown against spreading of fake news and rumors from social media
As part of what the government calls a campaign against fake news and the spreading of rumors, China's internet regulator will launch a crackdown on the reporting of news gathered from social media. In a statement issued late Sunday, the Cyberspace Administration of China said ...
Osaka enforces Japan's first ordinance against hate speech, threatens to name names
Ethnic Korean residents applaud as Japan’s first ordinance against so-called hate speech takes effect in the city of Osaka.
Facebook rolls out suicide alert system for users in Japan
The tool offers a way for those in despair to be noticed and given a sympathetic ear.
Line, biggest tech IPO of year, struggles to show growth plan can work
In delaying its IPO by two years, Japanese messaging app company Line Corp. bought time to correct weak financial reporting controls, work on its business plan, bolster staffing — and left billions of dollars on the table as its valuation shriveled. Line's initial public offering ...
Japanese political parties push online campaigns to reach new teen voters: Kyodo poll
Japan's major political parties are encouraging their candidates to use social media in their campaigns for the July 10 House of Councilors election to attract 18- and 19-year-olds who for the first time will vote in a national election, a Kyodo News survey showed ...
After historic Brexit vote, confused Britons ask Google: 'What is the EU?'
As cheers, jeers and economic fears enveloped Britain after Thursday's vote to leave the European Union, it appears many Britons may not have even understood what they voted for. The vote has triggered a series of economic shocks, including in Tokyo, where Friday the yen ...
The fur is flying on social media as Britons prepare to vote Thursday on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union. The hashtags #CatsAgainstBrexit and #CatsForBrexit flooded Twitter this week, as pro- and anti-independence citizens tweeted feline photos and messages imploring voters ...
