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Chinese government bribed Tibetans to celebrate the Chinese New Year, which fell on Jan 25 and which many of them usually do. However, most did not celebrate this time. Officials offered money and gifts and distributed fireworks, lanterns and couplets. But the government efforts failed.
Few families seemed to be in the mood to celebrate the upcoming Losar, their New Year, on Feb 25-27, in Rebkong County of Qinghai Province.
Take part in the Chinese New Year spring couplet calligraphy competition this Sunday at the SJKC Pay Teck school hall in Malacca. The contest is divided into the primary, secondary and open categories and participants need to bring own brushes, ink and ink pads while the organizer will provide two pieces of papes. For more information, contact Lee at 012-639 9969 or 06-281 9121.
Spring couplets
Lend your helping this festive season by purchasing spring couplets from the Malaysian Contemporary Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Association at Jonker Street, beginning from Jan 9. All proceeds from the sales would be channeled to the St Johns Ambulance Haemodyalisis Center in Bachang.
A month-long campaign has been launched against websites that "spread pornography and threaten the morals of young people", the government said yesterday.
The campaign, whose targets include Google and Baidu, is being run by the Ministry of Public Security and six other central agencies, a statement posted on the government's website said.
Cai Mingzhao, deputy director of the Information Office of the State Council, said in the statement: "These websites violate public morality and harm the physical and mental health of young people."
Huang Chengqing, deputy secretary-general of the Internet Society of China, said: "Pornography is banned in China and websites that feature erotic content are morally offensive."
Google and Baidu, the most popular search engines in China, failed to take "efficient" measures after receiving notices from the Internet watchdog that they were providing links to pornographic material, the statement said.
Web portals Sina and Sohu, and a number of video sharing sites and bulletin boards were also said to have "problematic photos, blogs and postings".
Cui Jin, a public relations official for Google China said "finger pointing should differentiate between the producers and non-producers of pornographic materials".
"Google does not produce nor own any content or websites," she said.
The firm has always abided by local laws and will delete links to sites if we are told they contain illegal content, she said.
"We have also adopted 'safe search' as the default setting, which automatically blocks sites with such content," she said.
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