Guangdong Communication Administration has become the first information authority to punish a company 5,000 yuan (US$627.51) for sending junk e-mails, People's Daily reported today.

A Shenzhen company, which runs a Website (www.companystudy.com), began sending junk e-mails, containing commercial advertisements, from January of this year by collecting e-mail addresses from the Internet.

The administration carried out an investigation after receiving complaints from Internet users and ordered the company to stop sending the e-mail ads.

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