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- Baidu receives license to provide news
Date: 24-Jan-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
INTERNET search leader Baidu.com Inc. has received a news service license from the government, which will allow the firm known as 'China's Google?to become a fully fledged online news portal, government and industry sources said yesterday.
Chinese authorities granted Baidu the Internet news content service license last week, a government source said, allowing Baidu to do its own reporting rather than simply show news search results. China is relaxing its controls on its media and journalists in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The country's largest Internet portal, Sina.com, obtained a news service permit a few years ago and carries its own reports. Baidu is the first online search engine in China to win such a license.
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