Tuesday’s 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan has caused a minor communication breakdown in Asia. BBC reports that Taiwan, South Korea, China and Japan are affected (and I would like to add Hong Kong).
Local websites are wholly accessible, as are certain big websites (BBC, Google) but not the majority of the web.
Reporting from the field, Jason Li, "This sucks. But the Facebook works. As does Gmail. So it’s not all lost."
Our Shanghai office is without internet access, but Blackberry went live yesterday morning in Shanghai. What is going on elsewhere in China?
Hong Kong just got back up. At least for now.
can access most u.s. sites in shanghai, but connection is very unstable and slow….
I can not login to many webs.
http://www.foreignercn.com