China's 'Warcraft' cuts skeletons
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The operators of "World of Warcraft" in China have replaced skeletons with healthy human bodies in the local version of the popular monster-killing online game, a spokesman said Friday, amid a recent government campaign to clean up Internet content.
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SINGAPORE - Card games are a common pastime at traditional Chinese funerals, but criminals are reportedly paying off grieving relatives to run their gambling operations at wakes.
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SHANGHAI, China - Chinese doctors have removed a more than 1-inch-long bullet from a woman's skull 64 years after she was shot by Japanese Imperial Army troops, her doctor said Tuesday.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH     SHANGHAI, China  -- China plans ratings systems for online games, books and movies to protect children from violence and sexual content in the nation's latest effort to tighten controls on various media, reports said Friday.    The system for censoring online games will be introduced by the end of October and will come ahead of "any similar actions on books and movies," the state-run newspaper Shanghai Daily said, citing officials attending a conference in Shanghai...
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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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Tycho:  It's gotten to the point where we're considering placing Chinese-style hard limits on our own World of Warcraft play.  Ordinarily, we do not consider the Chinese Government a model for emulation.  But I think they might be onto something there.
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Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,000 artifacts at sites being prepared for the 2008 Olympics, but elsewhere in China, they are often in a losing race against bulldozers.
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Most countries honour their war dead, but China has erected a monument for a little thought of but altogether more cuddly martyr -- the mice, guinea pigs, rabbits and monkeys who gave their lives to science.
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An exhibition seeking to ease Chinese taboos toward death has opened in Hong Kong, featuring "green" paper coffins and multimedia artwork, including a coffin "simulator" giving users a 3-minute taste of death.
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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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Blizzard makes noises about cracking down on real-money sales of items from the virtual World of Warcraft, but such transactions may impossible to stop. By Daniel Terdiman.
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The Chinese version of the popular game replaces skeletons with flesh-and-blood humans, a decision apparently taken after pressure by the government, which is pushing a "healthy online culture."
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Age is clearly a sensitive issue in  China's fast-paced world of online games, where a year or two  can mean the difference between the height of youth or a game  title being past its prime.
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HARBIN, China -- The hands had melted off a delicately entwined couple of ballet dancers crafted by an ice-sculpting team from Vladivostok. Eaves fashioned from packed snow drooped into icicles at the Roast Meat Fire House restaurant. Authorities banned people from approaching the ice-cube tower at...
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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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The aftermath of an upcoming World of Warcraft patch could get messy. Plus: NBC
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Overweight, overkill, over and out A Chinese man who spent "almost all" of the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday glued to a computer game finally dropped dead at the end of the marathon session, Reuters reports.â¦