Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'censorship'
The yin and yang of human rights in China
By Frank Ching | The Japan Times September 3, 2010 The only lady vice minister in China's Foreign Ministry is Fu Ying, a well-coiffed, mild-mannered 57-year-old, an ethnic Mongol who speaks flawless English, who has served as ambassador to the...
Arrests Ahead of Tournament
By Radio Free AsiaAugust 25, 2010 Police clear Beijing of dissidents ahead of a star-studded martial arts event. Police in China's capital have removed a victim of the Tiananmen Square military crackdown from the city ahead of a high-profile martial...
Canada Calls on Chinese Embassy to Give Back Journalist's Passport
By Matthew Little and Jason Loftus | The Epoch TimesAugust 18, 2010 The office of Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has called on the Chinese embassy in Ottawa to return a Canadian journalist's passport, which he said was withheld...
New China Search Engine Will Be State-Controlled
By David Barboza | The New York Times13 August 2010 In an apparent bid to extend its control over the Internet and cash in on the rapid growth of mobile devices, China plans to create a government-controlled search engine. The...
Tensions Over Chinese Mining Venture in Peru
By Simon Romero for The New York TimesAugust 14, 2010 In its worldwide quest for commodities, China has scoured South America for everything from Brazilian soybeans to Guyanese timber and Venezuelan oil. But long before it made any of those...
China Imprisons 3 Men Who Maintained Uighur Web Sites
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJuly 30, 2010 Three men accused of "endangering state security" for their roles in maintaining popular Uighur-language Web sites have been sentenced to prison terms of 3 to 10 years, according to exile...
China's Money and Migrants Pour Into Tibet
By Edward Wong | The New York Times24 July 2010 They come by new high-altitude trains, four a day, cruising 1,200 miles past snow-capped mountains. And they come by military truck convoy, lumbering across the roof of the world. Han...
A Grim Chapter in History Kept Closed
By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW for The New York TimesJuly 22, 2010 On a day in late March, Zhang Dazhong, one of China's richest men, struggled to speak through tears as he addressed his assembled guests. "My mother died 40 years...
Lawyers' Licenses Withheld
By Radio Free AsiaJuly 18, 2010 Chinese authorities use the annual license inspection to intimidate lawyers. Chinese authorities have refused to renew the professional licenses of several prominent rights lawyers in this year's inspection. Other rights lawyers were forced to...
Tibetan environmentalist gets 5 years
By RADIO FREE ASIA4th of July 2010 A Tibetan environmentalist is sentenced on charges of "splittism" a week after his brother's trial. Award-winning Tibetan environmentalist Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced on Saturday to five years in prison on charges of...
Google to Stop Redirecting Chinese Users to Hong Kong
By Brad Stone and David Barboza | The New York TimesJune 29, 2010 In an effort to appease Beijing as it seeks to renew its license to operate in mainland China, Google plans to stop automatically redirecting Chinese users to...
Underground Pastor Held
By Radio Free AsiaJune 14, 2010 Chinese authorities prevent a church leader from meeting with a congregation facing forced eviction. An underground Christian pastor has been detained in the central China city of Zhengzhou, the church leader said from an...
Taiwan pulls movies from Shanghai festival
By Min Lee - Associated Press | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJune 11, 2010 Taiwan has pulled eight movies from China's leading international film festival, an official said Friday, citing concerns that festival organizers could use the occasion to assert Beijing's sovereignty...
China defends Internet 'Great Firewall'
By Robert Saiget - AFP - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJune 08, 2010 China on Tuesday defended its right to censor the Internet, saying it needed to do so to ensure state security, and cautioned other nations to respect how it...
Crackdown on Tibetan Ringtones
By Radio Free AsiaMay 21, 2010 Authorities in Tibet ban popular ringtones characterized as 'separatist.' Students and teachers at a high school near the Tibetan city of Shigatse have been told to delete certain popular Tibetan-language songs from their cell...
Lawyer Barred from Going Abroad
By Radio Free AsiaMay 17, 2010 A recently disbarred rights lawyer says he has been banned by Chinese border police from leaving the country. Attorney Tang Jitian said in an interview Monday that he had been stopped by security officers...
The Pajama Game Closes in Shanghai
By Gao Yubing - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesMay 16, 2010 ONE hundred thousand fireworks lighted the sky over Shanghai on April 30, marking the grand opening of the 2010 World Expo. For the city's many pajama wearers,...
U.S. risks China's ire with decision to fund software maker tied to Falun Gong
By John Pomfret | The Washington PostMay 12, 2010 The State Department has decided to fund a group run mainly by practitioners of Falun Gong, a Buddhist-like sect long considered Enemy No. 1 by the Chinese government, to provide software to...
China AIDS Activist Flees to U.S. After Harassment
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via abcNEWSMay 10, 2010 China AIDS activist leaves for U.S. with family after government harassment intensified A prominent Chinese AIDS activist has fled China for the United States with his wife and...
Mine Sparks Anger in Qinghai
By Radio Free Asia07 May 2010 Tibetans say mining at a sacred site prompted a major earthquake. Tibetan herders in the remote western Chinese province of Qinghai have hit out at a mining company after it sank deep shafts into...
N Korea and China leaders 'meet'
By BBC World NewsMay 06, 2010 North Korea's Kim Jong-il is reported by South Korean media to have met China's president ahead of expected talks with China's premier. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Mr Kim met President Hu Jintao...
China jails 3 online activists; many show support
By Gillian Wong - The Associated Press - via Google NewsApril 16, 2010 A Chinese court jailed three people Friday who posted material on the Internet to help an illiterate woman pressure authorities to reinvestigate her daughter's death, one defendant's...
Gao Zhisheng, Hu Jia, Liu Xiaobo
A New York Times EditorialApril 13, 2010 Washington and Beijing are, rightly, eager to lower tensions. After President Obama met President Hu Jintao of China at the White House on Monday, officials said they had agreed to work together to...
China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet
Michael Wines, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesApril 07, 2010 Type the Chinese characters for "carrot" into Google's search engine here in mainland China, and you will be rewarded not with a list of Internet links,...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
Journalists' E-Mails Hacked in China
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York Times30 March 2010 In what appears to be a coordinated assault, the e-mail accounts of more than a dozen rights activists, academics and journalists who cover China have been compromised by unknown intruders....
The Dark Side of China Aid
By CHRISTOPHER WALKER and SARAH COOK | The New York Times (Christopher Walker is director of studies and Sarah Cook is an Asia researcher at Freedom House)March 25, 2010 A growing number of developing countries receive billions of dollars a...
China bans poet from traveling to US conference
By Charles Hutzler | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 25, 2010 A pixie-ish literature professor is the latest person to run afoul of China's government, denied permission to travel to a prominent academic conference in the United States this...
Google Shuts China Site in Dispute Over Censorship
By Miguel Helft and David Barboza | The New York TimesMarch 22/23, 2010 Just over two months after threatening to leave China because of censorship and intrusions from hackers, Goolge on Monday closed its Internet search service there and began...
China Says Lawyer 'Sentenced'
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 17, 2010 But one year later, Gao Zhisheng remains missing. China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi has referred to a "sentencing for subversion" in the case of rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been missing for more...
China Issues Another Warning to Google on Enforced Censorship of the Internet
By Michael Wines | The New York Times12 March 2010 One of China's top Internet regulators warned bluntly on Friday that any move by Google to stop censoring its Chinese search engine would be "irresponsible" and would draw a response...
China to toughen requirements for reporters
By Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMarch 11, 2010 China will toughen requirements for reporters by launching a new certification system that includes training in Marxist and communist theories of news, a media official said, citing problems with the...
Doubts On Reform Pledges
By Radio Free AsiaMarch 08, 2010 China's premier promises a more open society, but his speech to parliament meets with skepticism. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao has called for greater oversight of government by ordinary citizens and media, but analysts and netizens...
For 13th Time, Critic of China's Government Is Barred From Leaving Country
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesMarch 02, 2010 Chinese security agents in Sichuan Province detained Liao Yiwu, a prominent author and critic of the government, as he prepared to fly Monday to a literary festival in Germany, human...
China imposes new rules for personal websites
By David Pierson - Los Angeles Times February 24, 2010 Applicants will have to verify their identities with regulators and have their photographs taken. A government ministry will review the requests. In a move that will give the government new...
Rift Grows as U.S. and China Seek Differing Goals
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesFebruary 20, 2010 When President Obama met with the Dalai Lama in the White House on Thursday, he was following a tradition that all recent American presidents had dutifully honored. Yet, to some...
Tank Victim Gets US Asylum
By Radio Free AsiaFebruary 09, 2010 A victim of China's 1989 crackdown says he's looking forward to his new life. WASHINGTON--A promising Chinese athlete whose legs were crushed by a tank during the military crackdown on the 1989 student-led pro-democracy...
China Internet CEO laments state-controlled media
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Sugita KatyaFebruary 03, 2010 China will never have its voice heard on the international stage unless the government loosens its tight grip over the media and film...
IFJ Report Lists China's Secret Bans on Media Reporting
International Federation of JournalistsJanuary 31, 2009 A new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on press freedom in China highlights the battle by local censors to control media commentary on a wide range of topics throughout in 2009. ...
China paper slams U.S. for cyber role in Iran unrest
By Lucy Hornby | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 24, 2010 China's Communist Party mouthpiece on Sunday accused the United States of mounting a cyber army and a "hacker brigade," and of exploiting social media like Twitter or Youtube...
Remarks on Internet Freedom
克林顿国务卿关于互联网自由的讲话 >> Click here for the original English transcript 希拉里·克林顿（Hillary Rodham Clinton）国务卿 华盛顿哥伦比亚特区新闻博物馆（Newseum） 2009 年1 月21 日（星期四） 非常感谢，艾伯托（Alberto）。不仅要感谢你的赞誉和介绍，而且要感谢你和你的同事们在这个重要机构中发挥的领导作用。很高兴来到新闻博物馆。这个博物馆是一座纪念碑，见证了我们最珍视的一些自由。我十分感谢能有此机会谈谈如何运用这些自由应对二十一世纪的各项挑战。 虽然我并不能看到你们所有的人----因为在这样的场合灯光照射我的眼睛，而你们都在背光处----但我知道在座的有很多朋友和老同事。我要感谢自由论坛（Freedom Forum）的首席执行官查尔斯·奥弗比（Charles Overby）光临新闻博物馆，以及我在参议院时的老同事理查德·卢格（Richard Lugar）和乔·利伯曼 (Joe Lieberman) 两位参议员，他们两位都为《表达法》（Voice Act）的通过作出了努力。这项立法表明，美国国会和美国人民不分党派，不分政府部门，坚定地支持互联网自由。 我听说在场的还有参议员萨姆·布朗巴克（Sam Brownback）、参议员特德·考夫曼（Ted Kaufman）、众议员洛雷塔·桑切斯（Loretta Sanchez）、许多大使、临时代办和外交使团的其他代表、以及从中国、哥伦比亚、伊朗、黎巴嫩和摩尔多瓦等国前来参加我们关于互联网自由的"国际访问者领袖计划"（International Visitor Leadership Program）的人士。我还要提到最近被任命为广播理事会（Broadcasting Board of Govenors）理事的阿斯彭研究所（Aspen Institute）所长沃尔特·艾萨克森（Walter Isaacson）。毫无疑问，他在阿斯彭研究所从事的支持互联网自由的工作中发挥了重要作用。 这是关于一个非常重要的议题的一个重要讲话。但在开始谈这个议题前，我想简要介绍一下海地的情况。过去八天来，海地人民和世界人民携手应对一场巨大的灾难。我们这个半球曾历经磨难，但我们目前在太子港面临的困境鲜有先例。通讯网络在我们抗击这场灾难的过程中发挥了极其重要的作用。不用说，当地的通讯网络遭受了重创，在很多地方被彻底摧毁。地震发生后仅几个小时，我们就与民营部门的伙伴发起"海地"（HAITI）短信捐款活动，使美国的移动电话使用者能通过发短信向救灾工作捐款。这项活动充分展示了美国人民的慷慨。迄今，该活动已为海地的抗震救灾筹集了2500 多万美元。...
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot 'Unhealthy Content'
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2010 As the Chinese government expands what it calls a campaign against pornography, cellular companies in Beijing and Shanghai have been told to suspend text services to cellphone users who are...
Google puts China cell phones on hold amid dispute
By Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer | Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News 19 January 2010 Google postpones launch of 2 mobile phones in China as fallout from censorship rift widens Google has delayed the debut of two mobile...
Hackers Said to Breach Gmail Accounts in China
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJanuary 19, 2009 Google e-mail accounts of at least two foreign journalists in Beijing have been compromised, a journalists' advocacy group in China said on Monday, adding that hackers changed Gmail program settings...
Google's Threat Echoed Everywhere, Except China
By Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York TimesJanuary 13, 2010 Google's declaration that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country ricocheted around the world Wednesday....
China Jails Tibetan Filmmaker
By Radio Free AsiaJanuary 06, 2010 The documentary 'Leaving Fear Behind' gets its producer a six-year prison term. Authorities in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai have handed a six-year jail sentence to a Tibetan filmmaker who returned from exile...
President Obama, Push Back on China
By WEI JINGSHENG - Op-Ed Contributor - The New York TimesDecember 30, 2009 Last week, a moderate reformist in China, Liu Xiaobo, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Chinese government for the mere act of organizing and...
Argentine judge asks China arrests over Falun Gong
By Luis Andres Henao | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News December 23, 2009 BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge has ordered the arrest of China's former President Jiang Zemin and another top official for "crimes against humanity" in...
China Bans Domains
By Radio Free Asia14 December 2009 Chinese authorities ban registration for certain Internet domains, sparking fears of a wider crackdown. A ban on registering certain domain names is part of a Chinese effort to tighten Internet controls, according to Chinese...
China Indicts Prominent Dissident
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 12, 2009 Liu Xiaobo, one of China's best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, was indicted Thursday on charges...
Another Clue to How China Managed Obama's Visit
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesDecember 05, 2009 In case President Obama is curious, some students who went to his town hall meeting in Shanghai last month wonder how he gets along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham...
Christians Held in Shanghai
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 30, 2009 A pastor at an unofficial Protestant church banned from holding indoor meetings by authorities in Shanghai said she would seek compensation for mistreatment by police, as hundreds of the church's followers held an open-air...
School Construction Critic Gets Prison Term in China
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2009 A lengthy prison sentence for a rights activist shows the determination of Chinese officials to suppress any vestige of dissent related to shoddy construction and unnecessary deaths in last year's...
China Helps the Powerful in Namibia
By SHARON LaFRANIERE | The New York TimesNovember 20, 2009 Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia, an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children. The Chinese government has stepped forward to help...
Lawyers, Activists Denied Access
By Radio Free AsiaNovember 18, 2009 Chinese rights lawyers and petitioners were closely watched and prevented from meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama during his visit to Beijing. Rights lawyers and activists in Beijing during U.S. President Barack Obama's visit...
China 'black jails' shield leaders from complaints
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsNovember 12, 2009 Kidnapping people on their way to lodge complaints with China's central government has evolved into a lucrative cottage industry that mainland police refuse to acknowledge or crack down...
In China, Battles Over A New Wall
By NBS News' Ed Flanagan | via MSNBC09 November 2009 Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China. The so-called Great Firewall of China, the online filtering and surveillance program...
China blocks Internet in Uighur area
UPI - United Press InternationalNovember 05, 2009 Four months after riots in China's Uighur Autonomous Region, residents there are still cut off from the World Wide Web. The government has not said when Internet access will be available again in...
China Is Trying a Tibetan Filmmaker for Subversion
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 31, 2009 A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad...
China's Export of Censorship
By Christopher Walker and Sarah Cook | Far Eastern Economic ReviewOctober 12, 2009 The Chinese government's effort to prevent dissident authors from taking part in the prestigious Frankfurt Book Fair, an international showcase for freedom of expression, has offered Germany...
Decision time for China...
Gulf Daily News - The Voice of BahrainOctober 07, 2009 Sixty years ago, his army victorious, Mao Zedong stood at the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square and announced a new era for China after a terrible civil war...
Bluetooth Breaches Firewall
By Radio Free Asia01 October 2009 Cell phone technology provides a new method for exchanging information in Internet-censored China. As Beijing redoubles its efforts to censor Internet content during sensitive National Day celebrations, netizens are turning to an existing form...
China Is Wordless on Traumas of Communists' Rise
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesOctober 2, 2009 CHANGCHUN, China -- Unlike in other cities taken by the People's Liberation Army during China's civil war, there were no crowds to greet the victors as they made their triumphant...
New Curbs in Tibet
By Radio Free Asia28 September 2009 Tibetans face increased restrictions on prayer and travel ahead of a sensitive Chinese anniversary. As authorities prepare for sensitive anniversary celebrations across China, a growing security presence in the country's west is limiting the...
China Clamps Down on Internet Ahead of 60th Anniversary
By Owen Fletcher, IDG News Service | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 25, 2009 Security forces with black masks and machine guns on the streets of China's capital are just the more visible side of a security clampdown in the country...
Uighur Film to Show In Taiwan, Angering China
By REUTERS | The New York TimesSeptember 20, 2009 Taiwan's second-largest city said Sunday it would show a film about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer further angering China which is still fuming about the Dalai Lama's recent visit to the island....
Tainted Milk Parents Held
By Radio Free AsiaSeptember 14, 2009 Chinese authorities detain parents observing the anniversary of a far-reaching milk scandal that sickened their children. Three parents of children sickened in China's 2008 tainted-milk scandal were detained after observing the one-year anniversary of...
HK journalists protest abuse of reporters in China
By Dikki Sinn - Associated Press writer | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News PhilippinesSeptember 13, 2009 Hundreds of Hong Kong journalists, lawmakers and residents marched Sunday to protest the alleged police beatings of three reporters covering recent unrest in western China...
China moves to control online music industry
By Marianne Barriaux - Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 10, 2009 China has announced that all songs posted on music websites must receive prior approval and foreign lyrics must be translated into Chinese, in a new push...
China Tainted Milk Parents Warned Against Meeting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times10 September 2009 Chinese police have tried to prevent parents of children sickened by tainted milk powder from traveling to Beijing to mark the anniversary of last year's scandal, an activist said...
China Web Sites Seeking Users' Names
By Jonathan Ansfield | The New York TimesSeptember 05, 2009 News Web sites in China, complying with secret government orders, are requiring that new users log on under their true identities to post comments, a shift in policy that the...
Beijing Limits Information on Burmese Refugees Remaining in China
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesSeptember 2, 2009 Chinese officials imposed an information blackout on Tuesday on the situation along its border with Myanmar and began taking down tents that had sheltered an estimated 30,000 refugees who fled...
Lead Children Denied Tests
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 26, 2009 Parents in China say authorities are failing to make good on promises to test children for lead poisoning. Promises by local government officials offering free blood tests to children affected by pollution from smelting...
Reporters banned from Chinese village
By BBC World NewsAugust 25, 2009 Police and local government officials in China have swamped a village at the centre of a lead poisoning case in Changqing, which left hundreds of children sick. Villagers are forbidden from speaking to journalists,...
China bans petitioners in Beijing
By Shirong Chen - BBC News15 August 2009 The Chinese government has issued a new regulation to stop petitioners from travelling to the capital, Beijing. Legal officials from Beijing will now visit people with complaints in the provinces in order...
China in a woman's grip
By Saad Al-Ghamdi | Al-Watan (Saudi Arabia) | via ArabNews (Saudi Arabia)August 16, 2009 Millions of Uighur Muslims in China's Xinjiang province have been the victims of persecution and exile or execution simply because they demand a dignified recognition of...
Clashes Over Quake Trial
By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 13, 2009 Chinese writer Tan Zuoren goes on trial, and supporters say his plan to issue an independent report on last year's deadly earthquake is the reason. Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan have...
Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMES10 August 2009 China's nascent legal rights movement, already reeling from a crackdown on crusading lawyers, the kidnapping of defense witnesses and the shuttering of a prominent legal clinic, has been shaken by...
China Urged to Cancel Quake Trials
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesAugust 06, 2009 Human rights advocates are calling on the Chinese government to cancel the criminal trials of two men who pushed for official investigations into the causes of widespread school collapses during...
Namibians Say Inquiry on China Will Expand
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMES01 August 2009 Namibian prosecutors investigating allegations of kickbacks on government contracts with China have expanded their inquiry to include a Chinese contract to build a key railroad link, investigators...
Harrison Ford Documentary, Dalai Lama Renaissance, Attacked by China's Communist Party
By PRWebJuly 29, 2009 China's Communist Party attacks "Dalai Lama Renaissance" (www.DalaiLamaFilm.com), a documentary film about the Dalai Lama narrated by Harrison Ford, after the film premieres in Taiwan and receives front page positive Taiwanese press. China's response likely an...
Media furore over Kadeer's tour
By BBC World NewsJuly 29, 2009 The visit of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer to Japan has provoked a storm of criticism in China's press, with commentators warning that it will be seen as a hostile act towards Beijing. China...
China Censors News of Hu's Son
By RADIO FREE ASIAJuly 24, 2009 Chinese Web sites tying the president's son to news of a corruption probe are shut down and later reopened with the related stories missing. Chinese authorities shut down sections of two major Web portals...
China news blackout on graft case linked to (President) Hu's son
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 23, 2009 China's Internet censors blocked news Thursday about a graft probe in Namibia involving a firm linked to the son of President Hu Jintao, as the state-run media ignored the...
Graft Inquiry in Namibia Finds Clues in China
By Michael Wines | The New York TimesJuly 22, 2009 To the likely consternation of diplomats in both Beijing and faraway Windhoek, a newly minted initiative by Namibia's government to root out official corruption has snared an early catch: three...
China Clamps Down on More Social Web Sites, Researcher Says
By Brian Womack - Bloomberg.com21 July 2009 The Chinese government restricted access to more social-networking sites in the past few days, escalating a clampdown that started about six months ago, said Xia Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project....
Crackdown on Rights Lawyers
By RADIO FREE ASIA17 July 2009 Chinese authorities in Beijing have closed a legal research center and revoked the licenses of more than 50 attorneys in a bid to exert greater control over activists. Some 20 officials from Beijing's Civil...
China tries to bar Uighur film in Australia
By Rob Taylor | REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 14, 2009 China's government, entangled in a row with Australia over alleged commercial spying, has stirred more controversy by demanding a documentary about restive ethnic Uighurs be dropped from Australia's...
China Curbs, Blocks Web Sites
By Radio Free Asia08 July 2009 Authorities in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have blocked access to certain key government Web sites around the region, which has been rocked in recent days by ethnic violence. The Web sites...
Timeline: Xinjiang unrest
By BBC World NewsJuly 8, 2009 Ethnic violence has erupted in China's western province of Xinjiang, with scores of people being killed and hundreds injured. Here are some of the most recent developments: 5 JULY A small number of Uighurs...
Another Media Tour Goes Very, Very Badly for Chinese Authorities
By Robert Mackey | THE NEW YORK TIMESJuly 07, 2009 As my colleague Edward Wong reports from Urumqi, China, where rioting and ethnic clashes have led to more than 150 deaths, a government-organized tour for foreign and Chinese journalists went...
China angry at Australia's Dalai Lama visit
By Sally Sara | ABC - Australian Broadcasting CorporationJuly 03, 2009 The Chinese Government has reacted angrily to an Australian parliamentary delegation's visit to meet Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in India. It is the first time a group...
Beijing Adds Curbs on Access to Internet
By Keith Bradsher | The New York TimesJune 25, 2009 The Chinese Health Ministry on Thursday ordered sharp restrictions on Internet access to medical research papers on sexual subjects. It is the latest move in what the ministry calls an...
Tibetan TV Dishes Pulled
By RADIO FREE ASIAJune 21, 2009 Tibetans cite a new government effort to control what news they hear. KATHMANDU--Chinese authorities have begun to remove satellite dishes in a Tibetan-populated region of China in an effort to block access to foreign...
Three-year Prison Sentence for Distributing Bible
By Zheng Yuwen | VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS | The Epoch TimesJune 16, 2009 A Beijing court recently sentenced a bookstore owner to three years in prison for printing and circulating the Bible. He was officially convicted for conducting "illegal...
Why The Case For China's Lawyers Doesn't Look Good
By Austin Ramzy | TIME Magazine in partnership with CNNJune 17, 2009 On May 13, Beijing lawyer Li Chunfu went to the southwestern city of Chongqing with a colleague to meet with the family of a man who died in...
China's PC Censorship Software Blocks More than Sex
By Dylan Bushell-Embling | BusinessWeekJune 15, 2009 The controversial new software blocks political and religious websites and is "far more intrusive" than other content control software, say OpenNet researchers China's new Green Dam filtering program blocks far more content than...
China's Computer Folly
A New York Times EditorialJune 12, 2009 China has accomplished remarkable things in the past 20 years, including building one of the world's largest economies. Computers helped speed that development -- and will be even more important in the future....
China Faces Criticism Over New Software Censor
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesJune 11, 2009 China is facing a storm of protest at home and abroad over new regulations requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include software that can filter out pornography...
Dalai Lama made citizen of Paris
BBC NewsJune 08, 2009 The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of the French capital, Paris. The mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, made the award in what French President Nicolas Sarkozy described as a municipal...
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