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China Cracks Down on Online Games

Calls them 'spiritual opium'

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 17, 2008 12:03 PM CST

(Newser) – 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...   Read full story »

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