It's now China's turn to be angry at Google - for having decided to stop calling Taiwan a province of China - reports the BBC. Google Maps deleted the words "a province of the People's Republic of China" from the Taiwan map after complaints from the island's government and pro-independence groups. Peng Keyu, consul general of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, told the SingTao Daily that he was disappointed by Google's most recent decision.

Google spokeswoman Debbie Frost told Chinese state news agency Xinhua that the change was a "regular update" of all of the site's map pages rather than a deliberate effort to update the Taiwan page. But web users in chat rooms around China are apparently suggesting a boycott of Google's China service.