Waterloo mayor registers on Sina Weibo (1/3)

Max Min (L), Mayor Brenda Halloran's Weibo assistant, talks to Gary Williams, director of communications & marketing in mayor's office, in Waterloo, east Canada, Aug. 23, 2012. Mayor Brenda Halloran of Waterloo has become the first Canadian mayor to register on the social networking site Sina Weibo-China's version of Twitter since she began to post on the site in Chinese last July. She wants to promote the City of Waterloo to people in China: potential international students, businesses, academics and tourists. So far, she has about 12,000 fans on the site. (Xinhua/Zou Zheng)