Company type | News website |
---|---|
Industry | Media |
Founded | 11 January 1999 |
Founder | Ho Pin |
Defunct | 26 April 2022 |
Headquarters | , People's Republic of China |
Owner | Yu Pun-hoi |
Parent | Sino-I Technology Limited |
Website | www.dwnews.com (defunct) |
Duowei News ( traditional Chinese: 多維新聞; simplified Chinese: 多维新闻; pinyin: Duōwéi xīnwén; lit. 'multidimensional news'), originally named Chinese News Net, [1] was a Chinese language news website established in 1999 based in New York City, United States. The website was also known in English as Multidimensional News, [2] which is the literal translation of its Chinese name. It specialized in Chinese political news. [3] [4]
Duowei News was blocked in Mainland China. In 2013, Jason Q. Ng of China Digital Times and Citizen Lab [5] [6] considered the outlet to be critical of mainland China and the PRC government's policies. [7] According to Radio France Internationale in 2018, the site has been accused of having a pro-Beijing view point and promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda. [8] It was viewed as one of the independent Chinese language media outlets in the United States that later were taken over by pro-Beijing businessmen. [9]
Duowei News, whose original domain name was chinesenewsnet.com, [10] was founded by Ho Pin (何频) on 11 January 1999, [11] who used to work for a Chinese state-run newspaper but left due to negative feelings towards the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. [12]
On June 27, 2004, Duowei's new domain name, dwnews.com, [13] was created. Duowei continued to be an online independent Chinese-language media website for years until 2009 when the website was sold to the Hong Kong media mogul Yu Pun-hoi [14] who was considered to be pro-Beijing. [9]
Ho Pin later published Mingjing News. Duowei had a news bureau in Beijing. [4] [15] According to a Hoover Institution report, after the 2009 sale, Duowei moved its headquarters to Beijing. [9]
Duowei News correctly predicted the lineups of the 16th and 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2002 and 2007 respectively. [16]
Duowei News closed on 26 April 2022. [17]
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