Iran shuts down 24 cafes in Internet crackdown
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Iranian police have closed down 24  Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours,  detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral  behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
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Iran has blocked four local photographers from exhibiting some of their work in Paris after certain pictures were deemed to be &quot;against Islamic values and mocking the image of Iranian women.&quot;
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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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China shut down 44,000 Web sites and arrested 868 people for Internet pornography last year, state media said Wednesday.
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No new establishments during 2007 China has announced a ban on the opening of new internet cafes, Reuters reports.â¦
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Iran on Monday suspended its uraniumenrichment activities under a commitment in an agreement reached with the European Union, the state TV reported.
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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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CHINA has closed 1,600 internet cafes and fined operators a total of 100 million yuan (Â£6.5m) for letting children play violent games and for other violations, the government revealed yesterday.
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Iran has moved against pro-democracy Web sites, blocking hundreds of sites in recent months and making several arrests.
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Iran on Monday froze sensitive nuclear  work including uranium enrichment in a move likely to thwart  U.S. efforts to report the Islamic state to the U.N. Security  Council for possible sanctions.
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China is shutting down about 200 Web  sites for carrying illegal sex-drug advertisements, state media  said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of measures to clean  up the Internet.
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Iranian authorities banned five Web sites that comment on current events for "poisoning" public opinion ahead of the crucial mid-March parliamentary elections, the state radio reported on Thursday.
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Iran is cracking down on Internet communications, one of the country's last forums for free speech and a crucial tool for local social activists, Human Rights Watch said.
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Iran's authorities arrest more than 25 women protesting against alleged discrimination in the capital, Tehran.
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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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Ireland has become the first country to cut off direct-dialled calls to entire countries in a bid to crack down on Internet-based fraud.
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The owners of Bewley's Oriental Cafes, Ireland's famous tea and coffee shops, announced Friday that their two flagship cafes in central Dublin &#151; among the capital's most revered cultural landmarks for decades &#151; will shut next month because they can no longer run profitably.