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Aug 15, 2010
Walk away from Net nasties

By Sandra Leong - The Sunday Times

 
Life is good as a journalist - I get paid to surf the Web for hours on end.
There are the reputable news websites - The Straits Times, New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Perez Hilton - that I visit in the morning [...]

By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 8/5/2010
Singapore pushes responsible Internet use among youth
Singapore has earmarked 10 million Singapore dollars (7.4 million US) for projects aimed at preventing “cyber-bullying” and promoting responsible Internet use among its technologically savvy youth.

The conservative city-state has recently been scandalised by Internet postings of videos of young couples engaging in sexual acts and [...]

Tue, Jul 27, 2010
AFP 

TOKYO - A man on trial for killing seven people in a 2008 stabbing frenzy in Tokyo’s
neon-lit electronics district said Tuesday he went on the rampage because he was
harassed on an Internet bulletin board.
Auto plant worker Tomohiro Kato told the Tokyo District Court he was “fully responsible”
 for the attacks in which [...]

Dealing with Cyber-bullying
Read about the trauma of one victim’s experience and the help she received

Protect your children from cyber-bullying:

Communicate regularly with your children so they are comfortable to come to you for help
Place the computer in an open area of your home, within view
Set rules and guidelines on who they “talk to”
Get to know their [...]

Victim of bullying at school speaks out
05:55 AM May 12, 2010
Letter from Li Zhiwei

 
I REFER to “Schools must do their part to stop bullies: Expert” (May 10).
To me, these efforts seem to be too little, too late, especially if the culprits are able to send bullying messages anonymously through social networking sites.
The best example to [...]

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www.wickedlocal.com
Posted May 06, 2010 @ 04:22 PM

Hingham —

“Bullying is alive and well and living in Swampscott. A sad statement, but true nonetheless. we are no different than any other community around us. There have always been bullies in our world and sadly…” So wrote Principal, Ralph Watson” of the [...]

Originally Posted by kengz
I’m just going to take a few points from the earlier posts.
What these cyber bullies are trying to do are basically hide their own imperfections by laughing at others’ flaws. Some of them are worst, failing to practice what they preach. I do not mean this in a literal sense, but when [...]

A TEACHER has come under fire after his blog entry mocking his Primary 3 pupils
was discovered and its URL passed to other netizens.
The relief teacher had posted online four excerpts from different compositions written
by his pupils and accompanying them, he had commented: “I have three terribly ridiculous
compositions… a source of entertainment, I should say… [...]

Embracing cyber world
Feb 13th, 2009 by Danni Miller

Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph ran a disturbing story on the rise of cyber related sexual harassment in our schools recently. 
This story serves as a reminder that we need to equip girls to use technology safely and wisely, and educate all young people on just what is, and is not, [...]

SINGAPORE: No plans for cyber-bullying laws
Home Affairs minister stresses combating cyber-bullying through education, reiterates existing laws adequate
The Straits Times
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
THERE are no plans to enact laws to deal specifically with cyber-bullying, as offenders can already be punished under existing laws.
But Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng said his ministry would “monitor the situation.”
A [...]