The opening of its first Internet coffee shop in HCMC is considered as the next step of Yahoo! to penetrate deeper into Vietnam after the U.S.-based Internet service provider launched Yahoo! Hoi va Dap in the country in late August.

Yahoo! says that the country now has over 15 million people online, or an Internet penetration rate of 18%. It forecast the number of users will double to 30 million in 2010.

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Peru's RPP news reported today that after an extensive investigation, the Municipality of Lince had chosen the district's safest internet cafe for children and adolescents.

The internet cafe known as "El Rey" was chosen out of 37 internet establishments as the safest in Lince, Lima, Peru because of its modern software which keeps minors from viewing pornography and violent websites.

The internet cafe was recognized as the safest place for Lince's children and teens to go online because of its modern and innovative software which prevents its young users from accessing inappropriate websites and material on the world wide web.

Read more at Living in Peru

If you want to buy internet cafe in Miami, now its your chance (if you have 155k $).

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According to the latest estimates -- from two years ago -- there are 36,000 Internet users in Iraq. These don't take into account the thousands who visit cyber cafes across the country every day to chat with friends, do research, cyber-flirt or find marriage partners.

"Iraqis everywhere are keeping in touch with each other through the Internet," said Laith Lutfi, owner of the Baghdad Center for Internet in the capital's Karrada Meriam suburb. "Most of our customers come here to chat or to Skype".

The nightly curfew now coming into effect at midnight instead of 11pm, and that  is good news for those with relatives living in distant time zones, such as Australia, the US and Canada.

"After 10 at night I get many people who come here to chat or Skype with their relations in the United States," said Lutfi, who charges 2,000 dinar (US$1.60) an hour for Internet access.

Read more at Taipei Times

An internet cafe owner in Rangoon said they were just about beginning normal business when the net became inaccessible once again.

"The lines were accessible from noon (local time) but it again went off like yesterday at about 4 p.m. (local time). It was available for a few hours, so we were not able to do any business," said a cyber cafe owner in Rangoon.

Though the junta, in a show of stability, has re-connected internet services, a Rangoon based journalist said the frequent failure of internet lines could be the junta's way to keep control information outflow.

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 Internet café owners are forming association to unite and to address their issues collectively, an official of the Internet Cafe Association of Davao City (ICAD) said.