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Biographical

Founder of Boxun News (boxun.com)- a popular Chinese online news supported by citizen journalists. Boxun has broken news that is not reported by official media everyday, for example, Boxun published photocopy of documents that indicated Yahoo knew the consequence but still provided private information of its user-a reporter Shi Tao to the authority, Shi Tao was setenced 10 years.

Other experiences and skills:

- Wrote the software of news publishing, BBS and Blog for Boxun in 2000

- Used to work as engineer, accountant, financial controller and CTO

Education: Engineering, Economics, MBA

Interest: fishing, camping, gardening. Also enjoy writing software when I am not disturbed

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Watson Meng

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