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Newspaper clippings on Internet Freedom

[Source: Unless otherwise stated, all articles are clipped from the South China Morning Post]

2004

11 Dec.04 - More than 50pc of firms watch internet use by staff
08 Dec.04 - Internet dissident released but ‘kept under surveillance’
01 Nov.04 - China shuts down 1,600 Net cafes
23 Sep.04 - Vietnamese cyber-dissident needs urgent treatment
10 Sep.04 - South Korea to provide Iran with broadband
10 Sep.04 - China shuts down popular protest website
06 Sep.04 - Officials threaten to jail internet porn providers for life
01 Sep.04 - Patriots' website closed because of railway protest
12 Aug.04 - Chinese internet dissident's appeal rejected
05 Aug.04 - Singapore to hold computer hacking contest
05 Aug.04 - Cyber-police to tackle internet crime
04 Aug.04 - Vietnam to set up special internet police
02 Aug.04 - China plans multi-pronged attack on Net porn
26 Jul.04 - Beijing blocks overseas sites, shuts some local ones
21 Jul.04 - Vietnam steps up control of Internet
21 Jul.04 - Blitz on internet cafes accessing 'threatening' sites
20 Jul.04 - Shanghai to tighten controls on churches
19 Jul.04 - Portals threatened by messaging slowdown
19 Jul.04 - Website operators told to crack down on smut
19 Jul.04 - 'People's war' against porn launched on the internet
21 Jun.04 - China issues more internet regulations
21 Jun.04 - China urges ISPs to pledge 'patriotism'
21 Jun.04 - Self-discipline pact plan for internet providers
12 Jun.04 - Suspended jail term for internet dissident
11 Jun.04 - China asks citizens to report 'illegal' content
11 Jun.04 - Net dissident guilty of subversion
11 Jun.04 - Internet dissident found guilty of subversion, but given probation
09 Jun.04 - Vietnam orders internet use monitoring
02 Jun.04 - Australian police charge man with inciting terrorism on the web
02 Jun.04 - Government closes down 16,000 internet cafes in three months
27 May.04 - North Korea unleash 'cyber-terror'
25 May.04 - Special censors to root out 'unhealthy' internet games
24 May.04 - Under the firewall
24 May.04 - Net activist's trial unfair: watchdog
18 May.04 - Prominent online dissident goes on trial with counsel missing
06 May.04 - 8,600 Internet cafes closed for letting in minors
29 Apr.04 - New system to monitor Net surfing
22 Apr.04 - Report: Shanghai to install cameras in internet cafes to watch surfers
02 Apr.04 - Report: woman jailed over internet criticism of way government handles complaints
18 Mar.04 - Blogs targeted in latest censorship of internet
28 Jan.04 - Amnesty calls for China to free 54 people jailed for Internet opinions

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2003

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