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China tops US for Internet user

CHINA has the world's largest number of Internet users, passing the United States by the end of June, a government-backed center said in a report today. Another 43 million netizens joined in the first half of... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Jul 24 2008

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