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Chinese characters to go cyber

THE use of non-Latin characters from start to finish for Internet domain names could create a massive expansion of Internet use and commerce in China, experts predict. The board of the Internet Corporation for... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Mon, Nov 09 2009

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