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Baby Starves While Parents Tend to Virtual Child: Cops

Kevin Spak — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:22:00 CST

A South Korean couple has been arrested for allegedly letting their real-life 3-month-old daughter starve to death while they cared for a virtual baby in an online game. Police say the 41-year-old father and 25-year-old mother spent 12 hours a night playing the Second Life-style online game PRIUS at an...

China Cracks Down on Internet Cafes

Peter Fearon — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:29:01 CDT

China has resumed a strict crackdown on Internet users less than two months after the Olympic Games, ending the more relaxed regulations that accompanied the international spotlight, reports the Times of London. All visitors to Internet cafes in Beijing will be required to have their photograph taken, reports the Times...

Sky-High Internet Café Opens

Laila Weir — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:36:54 CDT

The Olympic torch is bringing more than controversy on its round-the-world trek—it’s also responsible for the world’s highest Internet café, the People's Daily reports. China Mobile built the communications center at Mount Everest's 17,000-foot-high base camp to ensure communications for relay teams as the torch scales the mountain.

China Cracks Down on Online Games

Kevin Spak — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:03:26 CST

China is cracking down on its booming, billion-dollar online game industry, which is seen as “spiritual opium” that threatens to hook the Chinese people, Reuters reports. The government today said it plans to regulate “undesirable” elements out of the game, which 41 million Chinese played this year. “The whole industry...