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China Unveils New Gaming Curbs, Sending Tech Stocks Tumbling

China's new draft restrictions say they are aimed at limiting in-game purchases and preventing obsessive gaming behaviour (Credit: AFP)

China announced Friday another set of planned curbs on the amount of time and money that people can spend gaming online, triggering a share market sell-off in some of the nation's biggest tech giants worth billions of dollars.

The draft restrictions published online by the government regulator say they are aimed at limiting in-game purchases and preventing obsessive gaming behaviour.

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