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Mar 19 2010 11:55am EDT

Google to Announce China Exit on Monday, Report Says

Google Inc. is announcing on Monday that it will leave China, according to a newspaper.

China Business News reports the news citing an unidentified business agent, but said the company had yet to confirm that it will close some or all of its operations in the country early next month.

China Business News said an employee within Google China said separately that the company is going to make public its intentions on Monday, including compensation plans for employees if it leaves the country.

It said it remains uncertain whether Google would close only its Chinese search engine at www.google.cn or would shut down all of its business operations in the country.

Google said in January that it would no longer censor search results in China after a cyber-attack originating from there targeted human rights activists and broke into more than 20 companies' systems.

The announcement triggered an international debate over Internet censorship and espionage. China strongly denied any involvement.

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