Hong Kong: The social-networking website Facebook Inc has quietly opened an office in Hong Kong despite being banned in mainland China, a news report said Wednesday. The new Hong Kong office in an undisclosed location followed the opening of offices in India and Singapore in 2010 and is part of Facebook’s Asia
expansion, the South China Morning Post reported. Facebook, which has more than 600 million users worldwide, is blocked in mainland China but is popular in the former British colony of Hong Kong, which has freedom denied to people elsewhere in China. “We’re growing all over the world, and the Asia region is a big, big part of that,” Facebook’s vice-president and commercial director for the Asia-Pacific, Blake Chandlee, was quoted by the newspaper as saying. —dpa