China’s Ministry of Health recently denied the existence of so-called ‘internet addiction’ as a problem for Chinese youth. You heard correctly- the ‘land of a thousand internet-addiction camps’ is apparently conflicted over... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Fri, Nov 06 2009
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