Google's strategy leaves the google.com.hk search engine vulnerable to a total blockade. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, which is owned by Google, are completely shut out of the mainland.

Google is facing unprecedented heat in Hong Kong as local authorities attempt to censor a popular pro-democracy anthem -- and the high-stakes spat has provoked speculation that the US tech giant ...

Google will keep some employees in China but will shut down its Google.cn site and offer uncensored Chinese-language search from Hong Kong in resolving its dispute with the Chinese government.

Google has refused to change its search results to display China's national anthem, rather than a protest song, when users search for Hong Kong's national anthem, the city's security chief said on ...

Google has opened its artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Bard to "over 180 countries and territories around the world", but Hong Kong is not among them. Google said on Wednesday that it has ...

Essentially, Google is playing a big legal trick: redirecting mainland Chinese users to a Hong Kong site avoids the legal trouble of an uncensored Chinese Google site, without depriving users.

HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court has given prominent film mogul Albert Yeung Sau-shing leave to sue Google for defamation. Yeung, whose empire spans jewelry, property and finance in Hong Kong and ...

Google has shut down it's Chinese search site at Google.cn and is now redirecting visitors to Google.com.hk. This is in response to the widely reported cyber attack on Google in December, Google ...

Apple Inc. and Google both removed apps associated with Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests from their digital stores in recent days, thrusting the two Silicon Valley giants into the controversy ...

Now the Hong Kong site is only one click away instead of zero, and the China site still isn't functional on its own. Google is trying to have its cake and eat it, too; the Chinese government ...

Google will keep some employees in China but will shut down its Google.cn site and offer uncensored Chinese-language search from Hong Kong in resolving its dispute with the Chinese government.