Yahoo said on Friday it plans to launch a Chinese language version of its popular photo-sharing site Flickr.com, to tap demand from Chinese digital photo enthusiasts.
"The HK traditional Chinese interface of Flickr will be available later this year," a Hong Kong-based spokesperson said in an e-mail to Reuters.
The new Web site will target Hong Kong users and will offer all core features currently available on the English platform, the spokesperson said, without elaborating.
While the traditional version of written Chinese is widely used in Hong Kong and Taiwan, the simplified version of the script is the standard in mainland China. However, most mainland Chinese are able to read traditional Chinese, and vice versa.
China is the world's second-largest Internet market after the US, with around 137 million Web users.
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