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Google Denies Media Reports on Closure of China Site, Office Share Business
　　By Wing-Gar Cheng
　　
　　Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc., operator of the world’s most-popular Internet search engine, denied media reports that it has decided to shut Google.cn site and close its China office.
　　
　　Hong Kong’s Chinese-language newspaper Sing Tao Daily reported Google has made the decision to close its China office, citing a mainland Chinese Web site sponsored by a government ministry.
　　
　　Google earlier this week said it would no longer censor search results on its Web site in China and is considering shutting down Google.cn and closing its offices there. The company came to the decision after a “highly sophisticated” attack on its computer system and evidence that human-rights activists were targeted.
　　
　　Today, Google is operating its business as usual in China and is still censoring search results on Google.cn, a spokeswoman, who declined to be identified, said. Its employees in China are still going to work, she said.
　　
　　Sing Tao cited ccidcom.com, which is sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as saying employees at Google China would be paid six months’ salary as compensation.
　　
　　The story was not accessible on the ccidcom.com’s Web site this morning.
　　
　　To contact the reporter on this story: Wing-Gar Cheng in Hong Kong at wgcheng@bloomberg.net
　　
　　Last Updated: January 16, 2010 00:28 EST
　　
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