BEIJING — Mobile phone users in central China could face jail for sending unwanted erotic text messages while in the north, one local Communist Party branch has held 480 meetings on the problem in the past month. tags sms text sexy jail chinaHenan province has announced that firing off just one such message could see the sender slapped in detention for up to five days, the China Daily reported on Tuesday. Three messages could result in 10 days behind bars and a fine of 500 yuan (73 dollars), the English-language newspaper reported. picked by soreen 4 months ago |
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two days in jail over unpaid leash law fine... sounds fair. picked by sproggg 8 months ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
The rising popularity of text messaging on mobile phones poses a threat to writing standards among Irish schoolchildren. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago 9 comments edit related share plime.com |
The number of Internet users in China is now greater than the entire population of the United States, after rising to 338 million by the end of June, state media reported Sunday. picked by nickcobb 4 months ago 3 comments edit related share world |
Actress Michelle Rodriguez was sentenced on Wednesday to 180 days in a Los Angeles jail for violating her probation on previous drunken-driving and hit-and-run offenses. picked by punthe 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Just six months after a Frenchwoman underwent the world's first face transplant, a military hospital in China announced that it too had conducted even more ambitious facial surgery. 3 comments edit related share plime.comWARNING: Graphic images. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago |
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China has tied the United States as the online population leader with its government reporting that the number of Internet users there has soared to 221 million. picked by 2longdogs 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
You are shopping when you receive a text message on your mobile phone. It is from the parking meter telling you that you have been given a fine. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Censorship in China is nothing new, but the level of action taken to force Chinese citizens to comply has garnered global recognition. China marked the date July 1st, 2009 as the day manufacturers will be forced to install filtering software on all new PCs. While many have resorted to digitally lashing out against Green Dam, Chinese artist and designer of the famous Bird's Nest at the Beijing Olym... read full post picked by beaplourde 5 months ago 1 comments edit related share world |
A jail in northern Texas has been closed and its nearly 60 inmates transferred as authorities investigate what they call dangerous conditions for jailers and those behind bars — including cells that locked from the inside or contained recliners. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 3 comments edit related share weird |
Slender, dark-haired Karen Jane Matthew was brought into the downtown King County Jail around 1 a.m. on Sept. 16 last year after being arrested for selling rock cocaine on Aurora Avenue. Over the next 30 hours, the 51-year-old inmate with a long, mostly misdemeanor record, including drugs and prostitution, lost consciousness and split open her head in a fall; told a cellmate she was "dope sic... read full post picked by bingo 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Judged by the astonishing increase in journal papers written by scientists in China, there can be little doubt that China is finding its place as one of the world's scientific power houses. picked by maxriter 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share science |
TeleFlip, the service which allows you to send text messages via email, now offers anyone with a mobile phone with text messaging the ability to have email sent to your phone. picked by francisbook 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A protester jailed after the 1989 Tiananmen protests has been released while another activist who was jailed and freed years ago for his role in the pro-democracy uprising has been detained again... picked by kxmk 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
With news that hotels in Beijing will be spying on internet users during the Olympics,Zach Honig (pop photo blogger) gives real world tips about hacking the firewall and dodging spyware while at the games. picked by carguy4life 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Big Brother will soon be making regular appearances on the screens of Internet users in China, but the velvet fist will take the unexpected form of a cute pair of manga cartoon cops. 5 comments edit related share plime.comThose crazy Chinese, what will they think of next! picked by nesbyniccolo 2 years ago |
The bailiff put her in the cell to await transport to jail, and she was forgotten. Because of heavy snow, few staff members were in the courthouse to hear her cries and pounding later Thursday or on Friday and through the weekend. picked by MandolinOrange 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
MIANYANG, China - A 5.3 magnitude aftershock struck China's quake-battered Sichuan province Thursday amid concerns over rising water levels in a lake formed by landslides from the massive May 12 temblor. 0 comments edit related share worldThe U.S. Geological Survey reported the aftershock struck at 12:41 p.m. (12:41 a.m. EDT) just south of the town of Qingchuan at the relatively shallow depth of 6 miles. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago |
Chen Xiao had pretty much given up making her own decisions and so decided to throw open her life to the whims of China's hundreds of millions of Internet users, known in China as netizens. What she stumbled upon was not only a new life but a new way to make a living. She charges about $3 an hour, and she's been asked to do almost everything from delivering pet food to caring for stray cats to ta... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
That's it? Too bad. picked by misswinkle 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
A 27-year-old Washington DC quadriplegic man was sentenced to ten days in jail for a minor marijuana charge and died during his stay because he was denied medical treatment. picked by punthe 2 years ago 9 comments edit related share plime.com |