Public Shaming of Prostitutes Misfires in China
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BEIJING, Dec. 8 -- To local officials combating Shenzhen's reputation as a den of vice, it seemed like a good idea, the perfect way to dissuade provincial girls from turning to prostitution in the big city and frighten away the men who patronize their brothels.
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BEIJING -- Citing concerns over the rising prevalence of pornography, the Chinese government recently launched a nationwide crackdown against Internet smut sites and pornography peddlers using new media outlets such as cellphone text messaging.
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Several arrests in Hong Kong for posting sexually explicit images of what appear to be some of Asiaâs best-known pop stars has led to a debate over free speech on the Web.
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Falls over on first day A new Chinese government website aimed at encouraging comrades to report corruption was brought to its knees yesterday by a stampede of eager citizens, Reuters reports.â¦
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Incidents throw harsh light on a culture fed by talk radio and disrespect for authority.
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The governor of the Chinese province shaken by a slave labor scandal publicly apologized on Friday, as officials described farmers, children and mentally impaired people snatched into a grim rural underworld.
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The Chinese governmentâs censorship of some Web sites with no discernible political content has fostered a backlash among Internet users.
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A Chinese government-sponsored online game that allows players to battle corrupt officials and their bikini-clad mistresses has been overwhelmed by user demand, state media reported Tuesday.
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Music, books and Hollywood films...  China can now add testimonies of regret by corrupt officials to  its exhaustive list of copyright violations.
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More than 1,000 people, many of them young children, have been forced to work as slaves in a brutal human trafficking ring in China that has shocked and outraged the nation, police said Friday.
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Enraged Chinese Internet surfers have called for a public apology from a Taiwanese model after she poked fun at the mainland's public toilets and their users on a Taiwan chat-show, local media reported on Thursday.
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There was a time the words âMade in Chinaâ immediately evoked âshoddy.â Lately, many Americans are thinking âdanger.â
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China will prosecute people who deliberately infect others with HIV, state media said on Wednesday.
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The Chinese governmentâs censorship of Web sites with no discernible political content has fostered a backlash.
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A controversy over too much skin points to the chasm dividing puritan official morality from the lives of real Chinese.
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China's censors are looking to clamp down on extramarital affairs in television soap operas for fear the shows are encouraging viewers to cheat on their spouses, state press has reported.
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Business & money: Which? calls for offenders to be named and shamed.