Digital Asia: Weibo censorship, Pakistan’s missing bloggers, China's top 10 social apps and more

• The top ten censored Weibo posts about international affairs provide a rare insight into which issues may be troubling the Chinese Communist Party. What was off boundaries in 2016? The Panama papers, Hangzhou G20 complaints, anti-China protests in the Philippines, making fun of Foreign Minister Wang Li, and anything Taiwan.
• India’s biggest technology companies lost more than US$7 billion in market value in one hour after media reported on US proposals to restrict skilled worker visas for foreigners.
• Chinese media is reporting on the rumours that Google may have found a side door back into the Chinese market. Meanwhile Facebook is trying everything to get back into China and it’s not working.
• The expansion of e-commerce, including Amazon’s entry into the region, is just one of the themes to be found in the newly released guide to Southeast Asia’s digital landscape in 2017.
• Indonesia is outperforming the rest of Southeast Asia on the ratio of women to men in the STEM workplace.
• China’s investments in intelligent weaponry are starting to pay off and in another sign global technology power is shifting east, Microsoft’s top artificial intelligence specialist has jumped ship to Chinese Internet company Baidu.
• Digital activists are still disappearing in Pakistan.
• China’s online security watchdog will audit all internet services, software, and hardware that might be considered a threat to national security.
• With an international cyber engagement strategy in the works, Australia’s inaugural Cyber Ambassador touches on the government’s cyber-security and cyber capacity plans.
• With a 24% decrease in product shipments from 2015, Apple’s glory days in China are fading fast.
• This fantastic profile of India’s geekiest tech couple is a great read.
• Want more proof that WeChat’ is the Internet in China read this or this:

Data from Cheetah Global Lab reinforces that WeChat IS the Chinese internet https://t.co/q9zd6uHBdg by @technodechina pic.twitter.com/7ZvmrgUzJ7

— CHINA (@china) January 25, 2017