Internet filter for Aus students gives access to porn, blocks education sites

September 23rd, 2009 CANBERRA - In what is seen as a vital decision for the Government of India and Indian students in Australia, the Australian Government has released an issue paper that has sought advice on how to improve the country's troubled international education sector. According to reports, Australian Education Minister Julia Gillard had last month requested former Liberal Member of Parliament Bruce Baird to conduct a review on the effectiveness of the 15.5 billion Australian dollar international education sector.

September 13th, 2009 LONDON - A university graduate who works as a porn star could make a successful bid as the world's brainiest porn star. AJ Bailey turned to blue movie industry when she needed 20,000 pounds to pay for relocation costs after winning a place on a Masters course.

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - A halal search-engine has been launched for Muslims to know which Internet sites should be avoided because of their forbidden, or "haram" content as per Islamic law. The search engine, ImHalal.com, only fetches results that are flagged as "Halal" and safe for Muslim users, reports The Telegraph.

August 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new survey has revealed that watching YouTube videos, looking up "sex", socialising and searching for search engines are the popular activities children perform on the Internet. The survey conducted by computer security firm Symantec listed the Top 100 searches using the company's tracking service OnlineFamily.Norton, which monitor's children's and teenager's internet use.

August 5th, 2009 LONDON - A third of people in the European Union say they have never used the internet, according to an EU report, which examined the region's digital landscape over the last five years. What's more, the study found that more than one in four Europeans had never used a PC.

August 4th, 2009 HONG KONG - Two highly paid senior civil servants could be disciplined after a probe found they surfed the internet for pornography rather than working, a media report said Tuesday. In one case a department assistant director earning 120,000 Hong Kong dollars ($15,500) a month is accused of spending up to 75 percent of the working day on porn sites, the Standard newspaper said.

June 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Access to information about sex on the Internet in China will be further restricted under a new regulation by the Ministry of Health. Under the regulation, which will come into effect on July 1, only health professionals and researchers can access websites that link to sex-related studies and research.

June 25th, 2009 BEIJING — Internet users in China were unable to access search giant Google Inc.'s main Web site or its Chinese service, and the company said Thursday it was investigating. The outage came after the China Internet Illegal Information Reporting Center last week accused Google of providing links to vulgar and obscene sites.

June 21st, 2009 BEIJING - Google Inc. has announced that it would take all necessary measures to comb out pornographic results in its Chinese-language portal, Google.cn.

June 19th, 2009 PENANG - Can the cellphone replace the blackboard? Not quite, but it is finding new uses in the classroom in pockets of Asia, says a new report. The latest and seventh volume of the "Digital Review of Asia Pacific', released at a function here, highlights the power of new communication technologies in the field of education.

June 15th, 2009 BEIJING - China has ordered software producers to create security patches following reports that its controversial new internet filtering system could allow remote monitoring and control of users' computers, and the stealing of personal information, state media said Monday. "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told us to make the software safer after a series of security vulnerabilities were found," the official China Daily quoted Zhang Chenmin, manager of Jinhui Computer System Engineering, as saying.

June 10th, 2009 BEIJING - Chinese authorities have rejected media reports that claim that the government is installing spyware on all computers in the guise of porn filters. From July onwards, all computers being sold in China will have pornography filtering softwares, but authorities claim that it is not advanced enough to act as spyware.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Worried that your kids are spending most of their time Facebooking instead of doing their homework? Well, then here's the solution. British Government has decided to introduce a radical shake-up in the school curriculum, in which kids will be taught life skills' including how to chat to pals on social networking sites and write blogs.

March 20th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tourism Queensland has disqualified Russian contestant from the world's best job competition, following her alleged involvement in porn scandal. Officials have said that "pursuant to the Terms and Conditions for the Best Job in the World", it was excluding Julia Yalovitsyna from the selection process.

March 12th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A Russian candidate for the 'best job in the world' has been caught in a porn scandal. According to the Sun, Julia Yalovitsyna, who made it to the list of Top 50 finalists for Hamilton island's caretaker job, has been accused of being a porn studio model.