Xi says top missions to fight cybercrime, terrorism and organized crime Interpol, the world's largest international police organization, aims to take a bigger role as a coordinator of security forces around the world so they can better fight crimes together, the head of the organization said on Tuesday. "Besides providing professional technical support, Interpol needs to take on the role of organizing international forces to conduct more global missions in the future," said Meng Hongwei, president of the International Criminal Police Organization. He made the remarks at the opening of the organization's 86th General Assembly in Beijing after President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech. Chiefs of police and security experts from 158 countries and regions are taking part in the four-day annual event of Interpol, which is headquartered in Lyon, France. In his speech, Xi said China will support Interpol's efforts, and he mentioned three high-profile global missions: fighting terrorism, cybercrime and new types of organized crime. Meng said that technological development and globalization have changed the nature of crime, which has become more international. No country is capable of taking on such unprecedented challenges single-handedly, he said. "More than 70,000 terrorist attacks have happened around the world between 2000 and 2016, but the international community has yet to find effective solutions for the problem," Meng said. Preventing overseas terrorists from returning to their home countries is key in combating terrorism, Guo Shengkun, China's minister of public security, said on Tuesday. He urged Interpol members to contribute more information on terrorist suspects to Interpol's database. Tim Morris, Interpol's executive director of police services, said China has become one of the managers of the international police organization since Meng, who is also China's vice-minister of public security, was elected as the president of the organization in 2016. China is also expected to contribute more in maintaining global security, he said. However, after Meng took on his new role, some people questioned whether China would abuse Interpol's red notice system. Red notices are issued when a subject is wanted by national jurisdictions for prosecution or to serve a sentence based on a court decision. "I don't think that's the case because issuing the red notice or not is decided by an independent commission," said Nestor Roncaglia, head of the Federal Police of Argentina. Also, plans call for the commission's decision-making procedure to be more transparent in the future, Roncaglia added. rainbow wristband1 inch wide rubber bands24 hour braceletsbatman wristband
All-night gaming marathons will soon end for some Chinese kids after internet giant Tencent began limiting daily playing times on its smartphone smash hit King of Glory on Tuesday to "ensure children's healthy development". Young players will be restricted to one or two hours on the mobile online multiplayer battle game, which boasts 80 million daily users, as concerns grow in China that long periods online are posing a serious threat to the health of the country's youth. Tencent, which ranks first in the world for gaming revenue, said in a statement that King of Glory was "supposed to bring joy ... but excessive gaming brings joy to neither players nor their parents". State media reported in April that a 17-year-old gamer in southern Guangdong province suffered a type of stroke after spending 40 consecutive hours playing King of Glory. The game became the world's highest grossing game this year, with estimated first-quarter revenue of around 6 billion yuan ($882 million), according to Xinhua News Agency. Users under 12 years old are now limited to one hour of play a day, and will not be permitted to sign in after 9 pm, Tencent said in a statement over the weekend. The move went into effect on Tuesday. Users between 12 and 18 years old are limited to two hours per day. According to the company, which called its new controls the "three broad axes", those who play beyond the allotted time period will be "forced to go offline". Tencent will also place caps on the amount of money that underage users can spend on the platform, so as to rein in "minors' irrational consumption". Additional measures implemented earlier this year include a real-name authentication system and software that enables parents to place electronic locks on the game. China introduced draft legislation in February this year that would ban minors from playing online games between midnight and 8 am. But Tencent said that in the current absence of "clear regulations to guard against mobile gaming addiction, we have decided to take the lead ... and dispel parents' concerns". "We also call on parents to spend more time with their children," it added. Agence France-presse
