BEIJING, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government Wednesday pledged to tighten supervision on mobile WAP sites in a bid to curb rampant pornography.

    The government will draft a regulation specially on WAP sites, which provide Internet service for mobile phones, before March next year, said a central government office in charge of fighting illegal publications and pornography in a statement here.

    The government will also ban WAP sites from setting up the access authorization system so that they will not escape regulation, the statement said.

    Last week, China launched a new round of harsh crackdown on spreading pornographic content through Internet and mobile WAP sites. The campaign will last till May next year.

    During the campaign, the government will tighten the registration of WAP sites and check up their registration information, the statement said.

    The government aimed to crack the interest chain behind pornographic WAP sites, which might implicate telecom firms, access providers, advertisement agencies and third-party payment providers, it said.

    The government will clarify the duties which websites, telecom firms, access providers and content providers should bear to curb pornography, it said.

    "If they do not take up proper actions, they will be held for the breach of duty. In those serious cases, the corporate representatives will be forced to apologize to the public and promise to correct their wrongdoings in public," the statement said.

China detains nearly 3,500 suspects in crackdown on on-line porn

    BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese police have detained more than 3,470 suspects this year in a harsh crackdown on Internet pornography.

     The Ministry of Public Security said Friday that more than 1.25million items of on-line lewd content and nearly 7,000 pornographic websites and columns were eliminated from the Internet this year. The police also cracked more than 3,500 erotic cases. Full story

China launches new crackdown on Internet, mobile phone porn

    BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- China launched Tuesday a new round of harsh crackdown on spreading pornographic content through Internet or mobile WAP sites to "purify the social environment," government sources said.

    The campaign, running from December to next May, was initiated by nine central government departments, aiming to "resolutely eradicate pornographic and vulgar content on the Internet and mobile WAP sites and clean up the online and mobile media environment," according to a teleconference. Full story