A MAN drops dead after spending hours on the computer. A father kills his toddler son. An angry son murders his mother. A parang fight breaks out between friends over the use of a computer.
These are just some of the Internet addiction cases in Taiwan, South Korea and Malaysia that have recently grabbed global headlines.
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