New rules better protect minors in Guangdong

GUANGZHOU: Parents who allow their children to stay out late unaccompanied by guardians are subject to punishment, a new Guangdong regulation protecting minors, which takes effect on Thursday, said.

"Several points in the new regulation place it in a vanguard position among similar regulations nationwide," Yang Jianguang, a law professor at the Guangzhou-based Sun Yat-sen University and the regulation's drafting group leader, was quoted as saying in yesterday's Nanfang Daily.

The new regulation - a comprehensive revision of a similar regulation from 1989 - addresses various issues, including Internet addiction, smoking, heavy drinking, loitering and school safety, that affect the healthy development of the province's youth.