China Closes 1,600 &quot;Internet Bars&quot;
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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.
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(InfoWorld) - The Chinese government will not approve licenses for new Internet cafes this year as part of a move intended to strengthen government control over the popular Internet access points. "The number of Internet bars across the country will not increase during 2007," said the directive (in Chinese), entitled "Notice regarding stricter management of Internet cafes and online games." The construction of Internet cafes that have already received approval from the government must be completed by June 30, it said. The directive was approved by 14 government agencies, including the Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Finance. Besides seeking to restrict the number of Internet cafes, the directive reiterated the government's intention to shut down unlicensed Internet cafe operators. Internet cafes are popular among Chinese Internet users, including young people who may spend hours at the cafes downloading music, watching movies or playing online games.
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Chinese authorities shut down more than 12,575 Internet cafes from October to December last year for operating illegally, the government said.
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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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Chinese regulators closed 180 food plants after a nationwide inspection found thousands of violations of food safety rules.
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Chinese police have shut down a Beijing-based Internet news site that counted the World Bank, UN agencies and a host of foreign aid groups as clients, its British founder said Wednesday.
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China shut 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August and imposed 100 million yuan ($12.1 million) worth of fines for allowing children to play violent or adult-only games and other violations, state media has said.
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Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai said attempts to access Google&#160;and other search engines were successful Friday, despite claims on a U.S. blog that traffic to these&#160;sites was redirected&#160;to Chinese search engine Baidu.com.The claim first surfaced on TechCrunch, a U.S. blog that largely covers Internet startups before being picked up by other sites. The headline of that post alleged &quot;Baidu hijacking Google traffic In China,&quot; but offered no evidence to prove the claim apart from an undated, modified screenshot showing Baidu&#39;s Web page below the URL for Google Blogsearch.In a follow-up post, TechCrunch said &quot;new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.&quot; That report cited posts on other blogs, where users claimed to have been redirected from U.S. search sites to Baidu.A Google spokeswoman in Beijing did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.However, several Internet users -- four in Beijing and two in Shanghai -- reported on Friday morning that search engines operated by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, including Google Blogsearch, one of the sites reportedly most affected, were accessible. Attempts to reach these sites had not been redirected to Baidu, they said.Internet censorship is a serious problem in China, and regulators routinely&#160;block access to sites&#160;with content they don&#39;t like. But Chinese officials very rarely comment on censorship efforts, making it difficult for users to determine when a site has been blocked or is inaccessible for other reasons.Timing can be an important factor, with Chinese censors blocking access to some Web sites around politically sensitive dates, such as the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and the Chinese Communist Party Congress, a political confab held once every five years to choose top leaders and set policy that is now underway in Beijing.Access to a search engine can also be blocked if a user searches for a politically sensitive word, such as a search for information on the banned Falungong religious sect.Tracking the ebb and flow of censorship efforts can be a challenge, as access to sites can be blocked and opened, seemingly by whim. On Wednesday, Wikipedia remained blocked in China and access to YouTube was shut off. But censors eased off on other sites, opening up access to Google&#39;s Blogspot blogging service and permitting users to view pictures on Flickr, which had been blocked even though the site was accessible in China.Even when Web sites are accessible in China, there can be moments when sites cannot be reached. For example, one of the Chinese Internet users in Beijing contacted for this story said he was unable to reach Google.com three days ago. Attempts to reach the site were not redirected to Baidu, and Google has been accessible during the last couple of days, he said.While the Chinese government may not be redirecting search-engine traffic to Baidu, censors did this in 2002, just before the previous Party Congress opened in Beijing. At that time, censors cut off access to Google and redirected traffic to several local search engines, including Baidu. However, the rerouting did not affect all users and did not appear to be done at a national level, analysts said at that time.&#160;
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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 closed almost 13,000 net cafes in a bid to clean up net use in the country.
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China says it  will not allow any more cybercafes to open this year, in an attempt to cut down on "internet addiction".
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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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Chinese authorities closed 44,000 websites last year in a campaign against internet pornography, state media says.
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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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There were about 162 million internet users at the end of June 2007 according to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) Yesterday the CNNIC released her latest report. Since 1997 they publish the results of their surveys each half year. This report shows that since the end of 2006, there are 25 million(18.25%) more netizens [...]
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plui writes &quot;An all IPv6 backbone was launched this weekend in China. &#39;CERNET2 is the biggest next-generation Internet network in operation in the world and connects 25 universities in 20 cities.
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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.