Game over for China's net addicts
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Combining sympathy with discipline, a military-style boot camp near Beijing is at the front-line of China's battle against Internet addiction, a disorder afflicting millions of the nation's youth.
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CHINA has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of $US12 million ($16 million) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government said.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 8 December: More than 13.2 per cent of netizens under the age of 18 suffer from internet addiction, said a report issued by the China National Children's Centre here Friday [8 December].
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China has closed almost 13,000 net cafes in a bid to clean up net use in the country.
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China, sensitive about issues of  national sovereignty, has banned a computer sports game that  classifies Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Tibet as countries and  has threatened to fine Web sites that supply the game and net  cafes that let patrons download it.
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BEIJING: China shut 1600 internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($NZ18 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media say.
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China has taken a major step in becoming the next big player in the Internet Market with their latest release. They launched their first backbone network of the next generation Internet that would help China to catch-up with the market leaders.
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SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.    The regulations were issued Sunday in a legal interpretation by the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate, or top prosecutors office, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's army of Internet users and operators are beginning to question the practicality and purpose of new controls on network - mostly on-line - music.
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The number of Internet users in China soared past 200 million in 2007, a new report from the country's quasi-government Internet overseer said Thursday.
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One-in-seven Asian Xbox video gamers  plays on the Internet just six months after the regional launch  of Microsoft's Xbox Live Internet software, a company executive  said on Wednesday.
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A Japanese-developed adult-themed  computer game has incensed some of China's Internet surfers who  deem it a bawdy slur on the classic novel, "Dream of the Red  Chamber."
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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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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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China has eased new Internet controls that had limited video-sharing to state companies, saying private competitors already operating in the fast-growing arena may continue.
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The Internet in China is not as  restricted as sometimes believed in the West, with most  controls actually coming from sites practicing self-censorship,  an academic who studies the Chinese Web said on Thursday.
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The country's netizens have become experts at wielding the power of the web to settle personal squabbles. This time, they took on a major tech company--and won