{"id":46824,"date":"2026-04-23T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46824"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:07:35","slug":"blocked-fake-website-singapore-times-linked-to-chinese-company-cna-investigation-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=46824","title":{"rendered":"Blocked fake website Singapore Times linked to Chinese company, CNA investigation finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>LINKS TO CHINESE FIRM<\/h2>\n<p>A registration number displayed at the bottom of the sgtimes.com homepage was traced to a company named Jiangsu Nanfang Digital Technology. Chinese authorities issue Internet Content Provider (ICP) licences to permit China-based websites to operate in the country; the ICP filing linked from sgtimes.com lists the site under a registration number associated with the company.<\/p>\n<p>Public company directories show Jiangsu Nanfang Digital Technology is a for-profit enterprise in Jiangsu province, founded on Feb 18, 2021. The ICP filing carries a &#8220;-15&#8221; suffix, indicating sgtimes.com is the 15th website operated by the company.<\/p>\n<p>The company has a public corporate website where it presents itself as a global digital marketing and overseas brand-promotion company. It advertises services including multilingual website development, SEO, press release distribution and translation, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Another site sharing the same ICP registration number is ibnews.com, which describes itself as a website for International Business News, \u201ca company that provides global economic, business and technology news services\u201d. This website carries more than 5,000 links to cn.sgtimes.com.<\/p>\n<h2>LIKELY COORDINATED CLUSTER<\/h2>\n<p>Apart from sgtimes.com, the other five are singaporeheadline.com, singaporeweek.com, singapore24hour.com, nanyangweekly.com and singaporebuzz.com.<\/p>\n<p>These five sites were registered through Cloudflare within a 24-second window on Mar 28, 2021, CNA Verification found, strongly suggesting they were set up as a batch.<\/p>\n<p>Across the five sites, the texts on their privacy policy and terms and conditions pages were also identical.<\/p>\n<p>CNA Verification also found no signs of an English-language social media network promoting these seven fake websites and their content.<\/p>\n<p>Searches across Facebook, X, Telegram, YouTube and Reddit did not surface any relevant or convincing findings. Accounts with exact or near-exact name matches were unrelated.<\/p>\n<p>This does not rule out private, renamed or less obvious amplification channels. Nevertheless, it is consistent with previous research showing that such inauthentic, heavily syndicated news website operations are SEO-farming infrastructure targeting search and aggregator visibility, rather than social media virality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/blocked-websites-sgtimes-singapore-times-imda-6075811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINKS TO CHINESE FIRM A registration number displayed at the bottom of the sgtimes.com homepage was traced to a company named Jiangsu Nanfang Digital Technology&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--YPUUdKwc--\/c_crop,h_759,w_1350,x_0,y_1\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/23\/nanyang_weekly_singapore_headline_big.png?itok=NigICjAu","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21194,107,15,2725,2538,332,7446,5275,22,286,6967],"class_list":["post-46824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-blocked","tag-chinese","tag-cna","tag-company","tag-fake","tag-finds","tag-investigation","tag-linked","tag-singapore","tag-times","tag-website","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}