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Tencent inks exclusive online partnership for NBA games in China

January 30, 2015 admin better-inform, china, five-year-deal, gerry-shih, joseph-menn, known-as-wechat, league-entered, michael-martina, san, sharp-response, shenzhen, tencent

By Gerry Shih BEIJING (Reuters) – The National Basketball Association and Tencent Holdings Ltd said Friday the Shenzhen-based Internet giant will be the only company in China to stream the league’s online content. The exclusive, five-year deal will allow Tencent to offer for the first time in China the NBA’s League Pass package, which allows subscribers to watch a full season’s worth of games live and on-demand.

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Opposition blogger may have ‘outed’ Putin’s daughter

January 30, 2015 publisher facebook, family, league-entered, michael-martina, president, putin-navalny, russian, san, sberbank, scientific, spotlight, village, vladimir-putin

By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW (Reuters) – One of Vladimir Putin's main opponents may have broken a taboo by publishing what he says is the pseudonym used by one the Russian president's daughters to stay out of the spotlight. Putin has made his and his family's private life little less than a state secret, keeping his rarely-photographed daughters Yekaterina, 28, and Maria, 29, out of sight and managing his divorce with the minimum fuss.