Tech giant, online sleuths team up

Chinese police have enhanced their capability to fight online crimes, especially those involving personal information, during the past year with the help of a national technology giant, a report said on Wednesday.

Starting this year, public security departments nationwide solved nearly 150 new types of online crime and detained about 3,500 suspects, thanks to cooperation from Tencent, the tech and internet company, according to the report jointly released by the Ministry of Public Security, the company and the Internet Society of China.

Last year, police in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, clamped down with the company's assistance on 21 workshops using almost 150,000 pieces of personal information to send spam.