From CRI: China will launch nationwide campaigns to crack down on copyright infringement on the internet. The General Administration of Press and Publication and National Copyright Administration recently announced that the government will take strong actions against violators so as to protect intellectual property rights.
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via Stuff.co.nz: China is becoming more tolerant of homosexuality, which until 2001 was listed as a mental disorder, but gays remain widely misunderstood and under heavy pressure to stay in the closet, state media said. Attitudes towards heterosexual relationships have relaxed since China began Western-style market reforms in 1978, unleashing a boom in […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: China’s State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), issued an interim regulation on October 8 to restrict Internet based pharmaceutical trading services in China, according to an official statement from SFDA. The requirements will go into effect on December 1, 2005. The Internet based pharmaceutical trading services include e-commerce activities between drug manufacturers, distributors, […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: More than seven percent of China’s total population age 65 or above, which has posed a big problem to the country’s work for the aged, said a senior Chinese official here Sunday. “The aging problem has come around not only somewhat earlier but also developed rapidly,” said Hui Liangyu, vice premier of the […]
Read MoreFrom Telegraph.co.uk: Tens of thousands of Chinese web surfers have been introduced to a new internet craze by the country’s notorious online sex diarist, a writer known as Muzimei. As if running her intimate weblog describing her promiscuous encounters with more than 140 strangers were not enough, 27-year-old Li Li has now gone one step […]
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