Nearly four months after deadly ethnic riots in China’s Muslim region led authorities to shut off the Internet there, local residents are still barred from sending text messages and getting online. The clampdown on tele-communication in China’s western Xinjiang province, where rioting claimed nearly 200 lives in early July, has hurt local businesses and cut residents off from many non-government sources of news and other information. China has blocked various social networking Web sites nationwide. Twitter, similar Chinese services and Facebook all remain inaccessible in the country.
NO INTERNET OR SMS FOR CHINA’S MUSLIMS
NO INTERNET OR SMS FOR CHINA’S MUSLIMS
