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Mourning Period, "Online Game" Stop Pun Day

BEIJING, KOMPAS.com - The government of China set for a day of national mourning to honor victims of earthquakes in the Tibetan plateau last week. How to do not only mourn the hoist flag at half mast, a number of online services that smell was closed a day of entertainment.

Online gaming, online music market, and numerous other web services were asked to stop the service temporarily, Wednesday (21/4/2010) this. Discontinued entertainment service that smelled of instruction Minister of the Interior of China. Theaters, gambling houses, ding dong, and the like were asked to close the appropriate circulars issued by the Ministry of Culture of China.

Online Shanda, Tencent, NetEase and which operates an online game "World of Warcraft" in China to write a message that the service ceased operations during the day. Google and Baidu even changing its logo to be black and white and write a similar message at the service was halted temporarily.

Kaixin001.com, social networks like Facebook are popular in China, was also inactive. Youku.com, video streaming services like YouTube, shut off its search function and presents a video about earthquakes on the front page.

Earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale shook the province of Qinghai in northwest China, Wednesday (14/4/2010) morning. No fewer than 2,000 people were killed the victim.