1,600 internet cafes closed in China
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The Chinese local governments have closed 1600 Internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan ($12m) between February and August this year.
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More than 200,000 customers of the internet company could lose telephone access and money paid in advance now that it has gone out of business.
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Text of report by Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency  Taraz, 4 June: An Internet cafe for journalists has been closed in Taraz (administrative centre of Zhambyl Region in southern Kazakhstan). The Internet cafe was backed by the OSCE office in Kazakhstan.
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Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, the government said.
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China shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday.
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A controversial Starbucks coffee shop in the Forbidden City, the former imperial palace at the heart of Beijing, has closed its doors, Beijing newspapers reported on Saturday.
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Chinese police have shut down a Beijing-based Internet news site that counted the World Bank, UN agencies and a host of foreign aid groups as clients, its British founder said Wednesday.
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A furious China has shut down over 1,600 Internet cafes and arrested people in a bid to curb the menace of content which is harmful to public morality.
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China's second-largest mobile phone company plans to open 3,000 Internet cafes by the end of the year, exerting stronger state control over a sector once dominated by private enterprise, state-run radio reported Tuesday.
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Beijing cuts its people off from 1.8 million blogs with the push of a button. By Quinn Norton.
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According to reports from a government Internet watchdog, China has shut down about 1,287 websites that cater to harmful content - pornography, religious cults, gambling and superstition.
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The Chinese government confirmed this weekend that it has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100m yuan since March, when it began its crackdown on violent or pornographic content, and other material it considers harmful to public
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Chinese police arrest nearly 600 people for involvement in online gambling as part of a crackdown on betting.
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Chinese authorities have between February and August of this year closed 1,600 Internet bars. In additional fines amounting to a total of 100 million yuan (9.
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Tens of millions of internet users across the Middle East and Asia have been left without access to the web after a technical fault cut millions of connections
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China shut 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($12.1 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media has said.
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Chinese police have shut down a Web  site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media  said on Wednesday, part of a campaign which led to the  shut-down of 44,000 Web sites and arrest of 868 people last  year.