59box - 1:53 am on Mar 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

Regulation is one thing, enforcement is another. Often times there is a gap and many hid in that gap.

Also wordings, interpretation and layers of bureaucracy creates gray areas. This is common, those that had experience it in China knows what I mean.

Furthermore, news, medical, education, publishing, television are subjected to different criteria
refer to [miibeian.gov.cn...] the fifth document.

By already operating and had been operating in China, and being a company that is the like of WSJ, it probably used a channel different from our website.

Maybe they missed it, maybe they never bother about it. But be sure that if WSJ and your website are caught without ICP beian, the recourse will be very different.