Two men sentenced to death for hacking into a Chinese bank's computer system.
Businessman sentenced to life imprisonment for releasing 30,000 email addresses to external dissident organisations
China's Internet population has quadrupled in a span of only a year. Totalling 8.1 Million as of December 1999. And an estimated 20 Million by the end of 2000. With an increase of 1,500 to 15,000 web-sites, and 35 Million email addresses[10] Beijing will have to struggle to maintain control of the Internet.