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41 porn Websites shut by authorities

National
2009-11-16

CHINESE authorities said they have closed another 41 porn Websites in a national campaign to eradicate lewd content from the Internet. China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center investigated the Websites...

Chinese characters to go cyber

National
2009-11-10

THE use of non-Latin characters from start to finish for Internet domain names could create a massive expansion of Internet use and commerce in China, experts predict. The board of the Internet Corporation for...

'Net's next trick: Non-Latin addresses

World
2009-10-27

THE Internet is set to undergo one of its biggest changes with the expected approval this week of international domain names - or addresses - written in non-Latin script, an official said yesterday. The Internet...

Four instructors held after boy is beaten to death

National
2009-9-3

PROSECUTORS in a southern China city yesterday ordered the arrest of four instructors allegedly involved in a fatal beating that killed a 16-year-old boy at a camp to treat Internet addiction. Four instructors...

Ticket scalping crackdown begins

National
2009-8-27

POLICE yesterday launched a crackdown on Internet train ticket scalping as tens of thousands of students prepare to return to school for the fall semester in September. Ticket scalping was resurfacing on the Internet...

Results confirm Internet camp teen beaten to death, police say

National
2009-8-19

FORENSIC results have confirmed that a teenager who died at a training camp early this month in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was beaten to death. Police announced the results yesterday, today's...

Student beaten to death at juvenile guidance center

National
2009-8-3

TEACHERS at a juvenile guidance center allegedly beat to death a student who was addicted to the Internet in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The student, surnamed Deng from Guilin City, was sent by his parents...

China's broadband Internet users hit 93.5 million

National
2009-7-26

ANOTHER 10 million users had access to the broadband Internet in China in the first half of the year, adding the total to 93.5 million, data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has...

Internet user base grows 15% to 338m

Business | Information industry
2009-7-17

CHINA'S Internet user base hit 338 million by the end of first half this year, 15 percent higher than six months ago, partly because more people are using mobile phones to access the Internet, a state-level Internet...

Net addicts shock therapy unwired

National
2009-7-14

THE Ministry of Health has banned a controversial aversion therapy that uses electric shocks to cure Internet addicts. The ministry published the order on its Website yesterday. Media has reported that the treatment...