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Trending: China’s Online Search For Stolen Children

China’s Online Search For Stolen Children

23/01/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - Trending, China’s Online Search For Stolen Children

The online hunt for abducted children in China.

Chinese parents are turning to social media and the web to hunt for abducted children.

An image of a three-year-old girl being abducted has flooded social media in China. The girl has now been found, but the search sheds light on the country's huge digital campaigns trying to return tens of thousands of missing children to their parents.

How a Bollywood actress wowed the web over the grilling she received during a TV interview. 

Meet Bill, the new stick figure that went viral this week. Bill has plenty of advice to offer on the type of content is shared online and will attempt to regulate human interaction. He’s known by different names around the world with a universal theme but there is only one Bill.

Presented by Chris Foxx @thisisFoxx with Kerry Allen @kerrya11en, Anisa Subedar @OnlyAnisa and Nooshin Soluch. Produced by Estelle Doyle. 

Image: CCTV of child
Image credit: Huaxi Metropolis Daily

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