Chinese Censors Shut Down Tencent Website in Shaanxi
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Censors in China have shut down a provincial website of Tencent Holdings Ltd., owned by the country’s third-richest man, according to a government notice.
The website (xian.qq.com) will be closed for seven days for “lack of control on contents” and “permitting the spread of vicious and harmful information,” according to a notice by the Shaanxi Internet Information Office on the local government’s news portal. An official at the office confirmed the ban and declined to provide further details. Calls to Tencent Holdings head office in Shenzhen and its local website in Xi’an went unanswered on Sunday.