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Google has reportedly launched a map search service in China for travellers taking trips during the Lunar New Year holiday season.

Published: 03 Feb 2010

Google has reportedly launched a map search service in China for travellers taking trips during the Lunar New Year holiday season.

Google China’s Marsha Wang told AFP that the service is available online now.

The Google Spring Festival Map is based on the company’s regular map service but has more features targeting users’ special needs during this month's holiday, the busiest travel period of the year in China, according to Wang. The special map provides information including real-time flight status, train schedules and ticket prices, highway conditions and weather updates, according to a statement posted on googlechinablog.com.

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Google last month threatened to abandon its Chinese-language search engine google.cn, and perhaps end all operations in the country, following hack attacks it says targeted the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that China’s criminal laws will keep evolving as the country is stepping up its efforts in the crackdown on cyber attacks. The development was reported on the official People’s Daily website. The Ministry of Public Security is working with the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, the country's two top judicial bodies, to introduce more judicial interpretations on Internet-based crimes and hackers, the paper quoted an unnamed official from the ministry as saying recently.