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SHANGHAI: Visual China Group, China's largest stock images provider, on Friday shut its website to make changes and apologised after it was ...

SHANGHAI: Visual China Group, China's largest stock images provider, on Friday shut its website to make changes and apologised after it was criticised online and by regulators for selling images which it did not hold the ownership rights to.

The topic"Visual China apologises" was the most-read one on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform on Friday, with over 250 million views. According to its website, Visual China has over 40 million editorial images and 1.25 million videos.

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