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Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/15/08 - Thailand used to block websites that the government thought were dangerous or controversial for public consumption. According to Jurist Legal News and Research, “The government of Thailand announced Tuesday it was abandoning a law that allowed the cabinet to censor political or controversial Internet sites based solely on the Minister of Communication's discretion.” This does not mean that it abandoned its policy of censorship, websites will still be blocked but there needs to be a court order.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/14/08 - CVietnam took a stance on effectively regulating the Vietnamese Internet access to several sites. Vietnam chose to decrease the Vietnamese citizen’s exposure to sexually explicit sites. According to an August 2006 Fox news report, “Vietnam purports to prevent access to Internet sites primarily to safeguard against obscene or sexually explicit content.”

Austin, TX - (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/14/08 - E-Commerce in the Philippines has been growing, would the ban on foreign ownership impede the growth of e-commerce? According to Global Technology Forum, “Philippine e-commerce has grown rapidly in recent years. Scores of businesses now operate their own websites or use the Internet for customer and supply-chain transactions.”

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/08/08 - The education system of the Philippines, which went through series of revolutionary transformations and developments brought about by changes in structure of government and leadership, is a system which continues to struggle to provide education to the broadest masses and to hone educated work force to achieve its economic and social maturity.

Austin, TX (ZPRYME NEWS) – 04/09/08 - East African countries have decided to collaborate in order to harmonize laws that would punish cyber crime. Michael Malakata, from the International Data Group News Service reported that, “East African countries are coordinating efforts to pass cybercrime laws that would be similar to ones in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, according to government officials.”