BEIJING, April 9 (Xinhua) -- China's police are struggling to clamp down on rampant Internet crime in the face of vague and inadequate laws to criminalize hackers, senior police officials say.

    "The most common crimes involve theft, racketeering, fraud of on-line resources and services, mass disruption and inconvenience to the public," said Xu Jianzhuo, deputy director of the Internet security bureau under the Public Security Ministry.

    The number of Chinese with access to the Internet exceeds 100 million. Xu said last year police investigated more than 20,000 complaints of on-line theft, but very few resulted in prosecutions.

    However, Xu said the actual cases of Internet theft, in just the categories of on-line banks and games accounts, could be in the millions. Full Story    

China's management of Internet conforms to int'l practice: premier 2006-03-14

    The Chinese government supports the development of Internet and the management of the Internet conforms to international common practice, said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday. Full Story

Websites closed in crackdown on Internet porn, piracy 2006-03-23

    China has closed a number of domestic porn and illegal websites in the latest crackdown on Internet porn and piracy, authorities said. According to the national office of anti-porn and anti-piracy under the General Administration of Press and Publication, a number of piracy cases, in the provinces of Guangdong, Anhui and Hubei have resulted in arrests. Full Story

China has 111 million Internet users 2006-01-17

    The number of Chinese netizens rose to 111 million at the end of 2005, an increase of 17 million from a year ago, according to statistics released Tuesday. This means 8.5 percent of Chinese people have become netizens, namely people that use the Internet for at least one hour each week. Full Story