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China blocks New York Times site over article

BEIJING — China blocked access to The New York Times website Friday after the paper published a lengthy article contending that the family of Premier Wen Jiabao has amassed assets worth $2.7 billion through a web of investments. The report said most of Wen’s family’s wealth was accumulated after he rose to high office in 2002.

Chinese censors also blocked the Times’ Chinese-language site that carried a translated version of the story.

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