"Asian" tag (sorted by SiNergy)

Where China has been effective in weeding out internet porn, they have no such luck with its mobile counterpart. The always informative Kathee Brewer reports the snags that China's anti-porn campaign has to disentangle itself from in dealing with porn on mobile devices. At this point, it is only sheer will of those supporting the cause that seems to push this agenda forward.

Tom Hymes doesn't outwardly editorialize but he can sneak in his two cents' worth in his article about China's wholesale shuttering of porn sites in Chinese cyberspace. So far, their handiwork had led them to close down 13,000 porn sites and arrested 5,400 suspects related to porn in China.

Steve Jobs and everyone at Apple must be jumping for joy right now. The iPhone is headed for China. Imagine one of the biggest markets in the world opening up to one of the most popular telecomputing machines in the West. Kaching!

In what I call censorship to the extreme, the Chinese government is taking great lengths to keep porn away from Chinese cyberspace. They have announced that they will pay Chinese surfers 10,000 yuan (about $1,500) when they find a porn site in their Internet.

Apparently, Malaysia has been getting its sex education from the Internet. A recent
study made by a condom brand in Southeast Asia has reported that 75% of Malaysians
get their information about sex by surfing the world wide web. Either that is a

Thailand's Cyber Crime Act is probably one of the most stringent laws around. The Thai government has been enforcing it in full force since it was promulgated last 2007.

In Thailand, of all places, a new discovery became a possible yet significant first step in creating an AIDS virus. After so many years, something positive and conclusive has finally started to appear. How did this discovery come about? The Thai researchers decided to play around with two old vaccines.

Why can't these bitches get their act together?

Porn producers from the United States and Japan demand more attention given to illegally downloaded porn material in South Korea. As one of the highly wired countries in the world, the porn producers are worried over the high volume of their content being pirated in the country.

Here's something these Korean researchers didn't have to waste time and money on; only to discover what most beer-swilling folk already know. But what the hey, I guess they have nothing else to do. They conducted a research to show whether drinking beer impairs visual acuity.

Mobile phones are great, mobile phones with unlimited access plans to a 3G network are even better. That is until providers cannot keep up with the high demand of mobile downloads as Japan is seeing now. With the online adult industry seeing a growth of at least a 1000 new customers a day the network providers are seeing bandwidth spikes that have some calling for mobile use caps.