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China to amend state secrets law, avoid Internet leaks
Jun 23 2009, Nitesh

China’s top legislature Monday reviewed for the first time a draft revision to the Law on Guarding State Secrets, underlining the cutoff of Internet or other public network access to the country’s confidential information.

The draft revision was...

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