Chinese government says it shut down 12,575 Internet cafes in 2004
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BEIJING  - Chinese authorities shut down 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, most of them near schools, the government says.
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China's food and drug watchdog announced it had shut down five drug makers over the last year, including one that made a substance implicated in 11 deaths, state media reported Saturday.
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China said it would issue new rules  cracking down on "undesirable" elements of online games amid  fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players  soars, state media reported on Thursday.
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Authorities in southern Vietnam have shut down 65 Internet cafes and kiosks after finding hundreds of addresses of pornographic and anti-government Web sites on their computers, a newspaper reported on Friday.
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A Chinese online game aimed at curbing  official corruption has been shut down just weeks after its  launch after proving so popular that the number of users  overloaded its server, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Citing its concern for the effects of violent and pornographic content on China&#39;s impressionable youth, Beijing permanently closed down 1,600 Internet cafes and suspended the operations of another 18,000 between February and August.
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China has banned a popular British online computer game that portrays Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong as independent countries.
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US authorities, participating in an international investigation, have shut down 20 independent news Web sites run by the Independent Media Center (Indymedia) by seizing two UK-based Web servers, the group said on Friday.
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China closed 44,000 websites last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media says.
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The Chinese government has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of $12 million for letting children access porn websites and play violent games, the government said, according to wired.
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China&#39;s state media have again issued a release stating that local governments have closed 1600 Internet cafes between February and August this year.
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China said it would issue new rules  cracking down on "undesirable" elements of online games amid  fears of growing Internet addiction as the number of players  soar, state media reported on Thursday.
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A high-profile government crackdown on Internet cafes in China resulted in the temporary closure of 18,000 Internet cafes between February and August, but few cafes were closed permanently, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
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The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games.
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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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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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Kujila writes &quot;According to a Chinese Reuters article, China has closed close to 1,600 &quot;Internet Bars&quot; (probably the equivalent of &#39;Internet Cafes&#39; stateside) and inflicted up to $12.