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To: Charles A. King who wrote (2506)	2/2/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: PaulW	Respond to of 6180

MSU Corp., an Internet Set-Top Box Company, Reports Second Quarter/Six-Months Results, Continues Balance Sheet Improvements $3.1M of Loans and Notes Paid Off and Converted to Equity biz.yahoo.com

To: Charles A. King who wrote (2506)	2/6/1999 7:28:00 AM
From: Charles A. King	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6180

Friday February 5 4:48 AM ET China To Reduce Expensive Internet Fees - Paper BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to reduce expensive Internet rates this year to boost the development of the information industry, the official China Daily said Thursday. The Ministry of Information Industry has launched a review of data transmission prices, the newspaper quoted Chang Xiaobin, deputy director of the ministry's telecommunications bureau, as saying. Institutional users would get an even lower rate than individuals but there was no specific timetable for the price cut, it said. On average, Internet users in Beijing cough up 34.8 percent of their monthly salaries on high fees, which have been blamed as one of the reasons for the slow development of the information industry, it said. One of the major problems of cutting costs was the monopoly that the ministry, price bureaus and local governments had on fixing fees, the daily said. While telecom authorities hoped to encourage people to go on-line with lower fees, police stake a 24-hour watch on popular cyber chat rooms to stamp out pro-democracy discussions. Police clamped down on unlicensed Internet cafes and bars amid a push for greater supervision of Internet use in China. In a landmark case in Shanghai, Lin Hai, a 30-year-old computer engineer, was sentenced to two years in prison for providing e-mail addresses to an overseas dissident organization. Police have also stepped up their war on hackers, most recently detaining one software designer for installing a ''logic bomb'' inside two popular educational programs. There are about two million Internet users in China and some foreign analysts predict that the number will balloon to 10 million by 2000. dailynews.yahoo.com