Webchat Channel Aims to Help Youths Overcome Cyber-Addiction

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newstream Help123 is launched at the biennial symposium Conversations on Youth yesterday. A study last year found that some 12-year-olds in Singapore spend more than six and a half hours a day online. Photo: Esther Leong

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