The Financial Times' Chinese-language website, the only non-English FT service, will be included in the package of assets that is being sold to Japanese media group Nikkei, a publicity official has confirmed.

"We will insist on the current editorial policy," said Rhonda Taylor, the FT's communications manager for the Asia-Pacific region. "That applies to both the FT and FT Chinese."

The UK-based business newspaper group posted a table on its micro blog listing all its subsidiaries, including FT Chinese. A footnote said that The Economist and the Russian-language paper Vedomosti are not included in the deal.