International   

Online game banned

BEIJING: China's culture and information technology authorities recently issued a circular, requiring online game companies to limit the time spent surfing by minors and prohibiting their access to the game PlayerKill (PK), the Beijing-based Guangming Daily reported. The PK game involves killing monsters and fighting other players, and most of the games contain violence, the paper quoted officials with the Ministry of Culture as saying. The Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Information Industry jointly issued the circular suggesting players should only get access to PK by using identification cards so as to prevent minors from the games.

— Xinhua

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Shuttle crew preparing for undocking on Saturday
One charged over July 21 attacks
U.S.-China move on U.N. Council expansion
Famine an affliction of the poor
Police officer killed in Jaffna
Online game banned
Cloning questions
New Indian law to hit AIDS control
Talks with Pakistan on CBMs today
Not the right time to invest in Iran gas, says Christina Rocca
India, Canada to cooperate in environment issues
Indian-origin student gets life term

Copyright © 2005, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu