ABC to can Australia Plus Chinese site
By Jonas Lopez in Media News on Tuesday, 24th April 2018 at 2:04pmThe ABC will shut down australiaplus.cn, the Chinese-language website of its Australia Plus news service.
Citing a network representative, The Australian’s Primrose Riordan revealed today that the website will be closed soon as part of a major service review.
The website was the product of a partnership ABC established with the Shanghai Media Group in 2015, and made accessible to users on the mainland.
However, it has received heavy criticism for not carrying articles critical of China, especially translated versions of major stories related to China that are available on other ABC outlets.
The biggest stories on the website as of yesterday for example, were about lighter fare such as Australian schools that have Mandarin-language classes.
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