Tag: china
Chinese get their own Second Life
IF your Mandarin is up to scratch then you might fancy a crack at HiPiHi. No, it's not the Chinese version of the holiday camp-based BBC 80s sitcom but a souped-up version of Second Life for Chinese-speaking avatars….
Nude web chats are fine, thanks to Chinese law loophole
Chinese prosecutors have had to drop charges of "organising pornographic activities" against a 36-year-old woman after it found that nude chat rooms were not defined in China's pornography laws.
China to force game companies to limit teenagers' game hours
The Chinese government has set a three-month deadline for Chinese online games companies to impose limits on the amount of points teen gamers can score once they've played for three straight hours is a day. It's part of their attempt…
Thief returns stolen mobile phone and belongings after receiving 21 text messages from owner
In China, a young thief returned the belongings of a Chinese teacher he had stolen from after she sent him 21 text messages asking for the items to be returned. Pan Aiying, a Chinese teacher at Wutou Middle School in…
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Vodafone team up for human rights initiative
Following criticism over censorship and other human rights restrictions in China and other countries, four of the biggest tech companies have sat down with human rights groups and internet freedom activists to hammer out a set of principles on how…
Chinese Wikipedia unblocked, becomes second fastest growing version
China's version of Wikipedia, the online user-edited encyclopaedia resource, has been unblocked by a number of Chinese Internet access providers after more than a year. The international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders carried out tests to prove that access…
