Internet addicts halfway house opens in Shanghai
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Mainland China has opened its first  halfway house for Internet addicts, offering shell-shocked  teenagers counselling, books -- and the use of computers.
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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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By Li Weitao  China has made a major step forward in Internet technology, which could offer faster, more secure access and ease worries over network capacity, industry insiders said this weekend.
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China introduces tough measures against internet pornography, including possible life imprisonment.
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(InfoWorld) - The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a government-backed research institute, has teamed up with private industry to set up a lab that will develop technologies for online games. The CAS Institute of Automation, Shanda Interactive Entertainment, and Interjoy Technology will work together to establish the Digital Interactive Entertainment Lab in Beijing, the three partners said in a statement. The lab will be headed by Wang Yangsheng, who also serves as principal of the Online Game Strategic Project, a government-led initiative to spur the development of China's online gaming industry. Online gaming has exploded in popularity in China during recent years, initially led by offerings from Shanda. As competition has increased, a wider array of games has become available, including titles imported from the U.S. and South Korea. Many of these games attract hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users. Online gaming is expected to generate 9.7 billion renminbi ($1.2 billion) in revenue next year, market analyst iResearch said last month
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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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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's largest fixed-line company,  China Telecom Corp., and Shanghai Media Group launched a joint  internet TV service on Friday, as companies in China's maturing  telecoms market forage into Web-based areas.
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SHANGHAI, China  - Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, cellphones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life imprisonment under new rules that take effect Monday.
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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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Dennis Tseng is an avid Web surfer who  loves to hang out in Taipei's upmarket Hsinyi district, where  wireless Internet access is freely available to all.
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Chinese are uploading video clips of sex, scandal and public protest to the Internet in increasing numbers. It's a big business -- and a growing headache for Beijing
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China aims to become the leading player in the creation of the next generation of the Internet with the launch of an Internet Protocol version 6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities across China.
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(InfoWorld) - Google will open a research and development center in Shanghai, stepping up its effort to build a bigger search business in China. Google hasÂ struggled in ChinaÂ to create the dominance it enjoys elsewhere in the world. It took 19 percent of the country's search market revenue in the first quarter, compared with 57 percent for market leader Baidu.com, according to Analysys International, a telecom research and consulting company. A spokeswoman for Google in China, Marsha Wang, confirmed the plans for an R&D lab Friday. She declined to say how many people it will employ or provide other details. Google and its U.S. rivals, Yahoo and Microsoft, haveÂ faced political difficulties in China, for agreeing to censor search results. In addition, their services are sometimes hard to access from inside the country. Yahoo's Flickr division said this week that its service was being blocked in China. Â
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Just in time for Halloween, Google&#39;s YouTube became available again in China Wednesday, two weeks after it was blocked.Although Chinese Internet regulators don&#39;t comment on why sites are blocked,&#160;YouTube&#39;s blocking&#160;seemed to be tied one or two events: the 17th Communist Party Congress, the Chinese Communist Party&#39;s most important meeting, held every five years; and the launching of YouTube&#39;s traditional language site in Taiwan, both during the same week in the middle of this month. The YouTube Taiwan site is also available in China.However, while YouTube can be viewed again, Blogspot is once again unavailable, one of several sites that see-saw between being allowed or prohibited. Although attempts to reach Blogspot&#39;s homepage rerouted to Blogger.com&#39;s simplified Chinese homepage, neither Blogspot owner Google&#39;s official blog nor the infamous Chinabounder blog -- which features the sexual exploits and political rantings of a foreign English teacher in Shanghai -- could be reached.Blocked throughout the recent changes&#160;is the English-language site of Wikipedia. Its Chinese-language site is&#160;almost always unavailable&#160;here.China regularly blocks access to Web sites that it finds objectionable, including those dealing with politically sensitive subjects such as the Falun Gong religious cult and independence for Taiwan and Tibet, along with some pornographic sites.&#160;
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Japan's most popular online networking  site, Mixi Inc, said on Wednesday it plans to establish a  subsidiary in Shanghai to tap China's fast-growing Internet  market.
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CHINA&#39;S police ministry has handed out rewards of up to 2000 yaun ($330) to people who reported pornographic web sites. Some 445 people have been arrested and 1,125 web sites shut down with the help of public