China's first law to be initiated against the vastly growing online gaming industry is set to take effect Sunday, state-run media reported.
When Huang Long Hao stepped on stage carrying a kitchen sink to battle against a team of hundreds of Chinese consumers on a recent Saturday afternoon, he knew that he and the sink were most likely going to lose.
China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves
Gone are the days when it was enough to simply Google your name to find out what people were saying about you in cyberspace.
China's fast-growing population of Internet users has soared to 221 million, tying the United States for the largest number of people online, according to government data reported Thursday
The Nasdaq composite has lagged the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average this year, but one tech sector that's seen huge gains is Chinese Internet stocks.
On May 4 in 1919, students in Beijing launched a nationwide movement against imperialism and a government that had failed to stand up to the West and Japan.
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