China: Sina.com launches English version to provide earthquake coverage
Posted by Kelley Vendeland on May 20, 2008 at 7:55 AM
Sina.com, a Chinese news website with around 800 million page views per day, has launched an English version to meet the demand for news on last week's earthquake in Sichuan. English.sina.com is virtually identical to the flagship Sina site, offering photo and video content, financial market information, and news on the upcoming Olympic Games. Both of Sina's sites are also sponsoring a fund raising drive for victims, and contain information on various NGOs assisting in the region.
At the moment the new site is primarily focused on coverage of the earthquake tragedy. However, Sina English is also making plans for the long terrm.
"We intend to make this site a window for international communities to have an easy access to China related information and to have better understanding about modern China," said Sina president and chief executive Charles Chao.
Source: Guardian
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