{"id":11539,"date":"2007-03-05T23:58:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T06:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/03\/05\/china-wont-let-new-internet-cafes-open-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-03-05T23:58:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T06:58:15","slug":"china-wont-let-new-internet-cafes-open-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/03\/china-wont-let-new-internet-cafes-open-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"China Won&#8217;t Let New Internet Cafes Open &#8211; AP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/In%20Ter.php\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/In%20Ter.php','popup','width=220,height=168,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/thumbnail\/In%20Ter-thumb.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"100\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>From AP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China will not allow any new Internet cafes to open this year, state media reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Xinhua News Agency said 14 government departments, including the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information Industry, had issued a notice saying that &#8220;in 2007, local governments must not sanction the opening of new Internet bars.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It said there are about 113,000 Internet cafes in China. Many are smoke-filled rooms with rows of computers set up for online gaming.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/05\/AR2007030501719.html \"target=\"_blank\"> [Full Text]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: China will not allow any new Internet cafes to open this year, state media reported Tuesday. The Xinhua News Agency said 14 government departments, including the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information Industry, had issued a notice saying that &#8220;in 2007, local governments must not sanction the opening of new Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,1051],"tags":[7711,6300,3734],"class_list":["post-11539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-top-article","tag-internet-cafes","tag-internet-censorship","tag-teenagers","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>China Won&#039;t Let New Internet Cafes Open - AP<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/03\/china-wont-let-new-internet-cafes-open-ap\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"China Won&#039;t Let New Internet Cafes Open - AP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From AP: China will not allow any new Internet cafes to open this year, state media reported Tuesday. 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