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China is the world's biggest gaming market. But between 2000 and 2015, most game consoles weren't officially available for purchase in the country. The reason? A government ban.
It hasn't always been this way. After China opened its market to the world in 1978, home consoles found their way in. They were very expensive for the average Chinese consumer though -- and consequently, homegrown knockoffs
. The most famous one was a clone of the Nintendo Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES) called . It introduced Chinese gamers to early Nintendo games... many of which were also pirated.Register and follow to be notified the next time content from Coronavirus pandemic is published.
Coronavirus: China sends four Hongkongers to medical centre after illegal entry by boat
- The four were on a bus in Dalingshan in which everyone tested negative but the 34 passengers were taken for medical observation anyway
- Under China’s border control policy any Hong Kong resident who enters Guangdong must quarantine for two weeks, even if they bring a negative result
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None of the four from Hong Kong were named but all were believed to be fishermen. Local news portal sun0769.com reported on Friday that the four had taken a vessel to circumvent border controls and entered the mainland via the sea on Thursday.
They are then believed to have taken a bus from Huizhou, a city east of Shenzhen, and headed to their destination in Yangjiang, a prefecture-level city in Guangdong.
But at around noon the bus they were travelling in was stopped at the Dalingshan Service Area on the Dongguan Changhu Expressway, after Shenzhen police alerted local police about the illegal entry case.
Police in Dalingshan, a town under the jurisdiction of Dongguan, liaised with disease prevention officers and led all 34 people on the bus to a medical observation centre.
The first coronavirus test of all the bus passengers, including the four Hong Kong fishermen, came back negative, Shanghai-based news portal ThePaper.cn reported on Monday.
The bus was thoroughly sanitised, the website said, and nucleic acid tests on environmental samples were also negative.
The report said Dalingshan authorities would closely monitor the mental health of all those in quarantine, and would contact the Hong Kong shipowner to be tested.
Mainland China has not had local
for almost two weeks, however, untraceable coronavirus cases have appeared in Hong Kong from time to time.According to China’s
any Hong Kong resident who enters Guangdong must be quarantined for two weeks, even if they bring with them a negative coronavirus test result.Reports did not disclose any personal information about the four Hong Kong residents. In late August last year, Shenzhen police
who crossed the border illegally by boat.The dozen travellers were found to be activists in Hong Kong protests in 2019, and they were apprehended at sea while fleeing to the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
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Police in China investigating case of 13-year-old child bride who was already pregnant and was twice sold for marriage by her father
- The girl, now 15, had baby seven months after first marriage but it was later revealed the husband is not the father, whose identity is unconfirmed
- After leaving her first husband following a quarrel, the girl was sold for marriage a second time by her father, who received cash payments each time
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