FOREIGN firms, including Google, must respect Chinese laws and customs, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said yesterday, a week after the search engine said it might pull out of China due to hacking and censorship.
Mr Ma Zhaoxu said he did not know whether Chinese officials had held talks with executives from the search engine.
Google has said it would seek meetings on how to offer a legal, unfiltered search service after losing intellectual property to cyberattacks that also affected more than 30 other firms.
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China sent an e-mail on Monday to its members warning them that reporters in at least two news bureaus in Beijing had their Gmail accounts broken into, with their e-mail messages surreptitiously forwarded to unfamiliar accounts.
Yesterday, Google postponed the launch of its mobile phone in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking.
REUTERS, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Source: Straits Times, 20 Jan 2010.
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