Chinese online game developer and operator Changyou.com Limited and its majority shareholder Sohu.com Inc. have jointly announced that the two parties have entered into a definitive agreement under which Changyou.com will acquire 17173.com, a leading gaming information portal in China, from Sohu.com for USD162.5 million.
According to information from the press office of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, to meet local people’s demands for Internet, the region started to reopen 27 widely used and popular websites from February 6, 2010.