Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'freedom of press'
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...
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...
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 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...
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'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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
To Shut Off Tiananmen Talk, China Blocks Sites
By Michael Wines and Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESJune 3, 2009 China's government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Micarosoft's live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens...
Tiananmen Square Remembered: Three Participants Tell Their Stories
The Epoch TimesJune 1, 2009 On April 14, 1989 in Beijing, students began gathering to honor the death of Hu Yaobang, the reform-minded former general secretary of the Communist Party. The students began calling for a number of reforms of...
How the Family of a Dissident Fled China
By David W. Chen | The New York Times Sunday, May 10, 2009 Gao Zhisheng, one of China's most irrepressible dissidents, began the day of Jan. 9 the same way as most days since security officials had begun watching him...
China Still Presses Crusade Against Falun Gong
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 28, 2009 In the decade since the Chinese government began repressing Falun Gong, a crusade that human rights groups say has led to the imprisonment of tens of thousands of practitioners and...
Tibet Protesters Are Held in China After Riot
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 24, 2009 Nearly 100 people, most of them monks, were being held in a Tibetan area of northwestern China after a crowd attacked a police station there on Saturday, according to the...
50 Years After Revolt, Clampdown on Tibetans
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESMarch 05, 2009 Enraged nomads stormed through this windswept town on the Tibetan plateau a year ago this month, raiding a police compound, setting fire to squad cars and forcing police officers to...
China: Group's Web Site Blocked
By Agence France-Presse | THE NEW YORK TIMESJanuary 12, 2009 Amnesty International said Monday that its Web site had again been blocked in China and it urged the government to reopen access to it immediately. Roseann Rife, deputy director of...
China: Political Site Is Shut Down
By The Associated Press | The New York Times January 10, 2009 China on Friday expanded its Internet cleanup campaign, which had ostensibly been aimed at cracking down on pornography, to shut down a blog-hosting site popular with activists, www.bullog.cn - The...
ON RIGHTS DAY, China Hails Gains and DETAINS PROTESTERS
By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESDecember 11, 2008 China celebrated International Human Rights Day on Wednesday with newspaper editorials and television commentaries hailing what they called the country's "unremitting efforts" and "nonstop progress" in promoting free speech and...
Belgian TV crew beaten, robbed in China
By Canadian Broadcasting Company | cbcnews.caNovember 29, 2008 A Belgian TV journalist and his crew have been assaulted while reporting on AIDS in Central China. Belgian journalist Tom Van de Weghe and his team from the public television network VRT...
China dissidents eye uncertain post-Olympics landscape
TODAYonline.com (Singapore) | MediaCorp PressOctober 21, 2008 Despite hopes the Olympics would improve human rights, China's crackdown on dissidents before and during the Games has likely set the stage for a lasting period of even tighter controls, government critics say.Beijing-based...
How free are reporters in China?
By BBC News17 October 2008Rules that gave foreign reporters greater freedom during the Beijing Olympics are due to expire. The BBC asked a range of reporters in China what difference the rules have made to their working lives. JAMES MILES...
China covered up milk scare to protect Olympics: critics
By Peter Harmsen | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 30, 2008 China knew about the contamination of milk products months ago but covered the scandal up to prevent it tarnishing the Beijing Olympics, according to journalists, rights...
Police, money silence protests over China quake school deaths
By Robert J. Saiget - Agence France Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 27, 2008 Parents of children killed when poorly built schools collapsed in China's earthquake remain angry but police intimidation and cash payments have largely quelled their protests,...
ITV News journalist arrested by police in Beijing (Video)
ITV News journalist arrested by police in BeijingAugust 13, 2008 A longer, edited version of this video can be seen here Follow-up report from ITV can be seen by clicking here A related report with video from BBC can be viewed here China...
Chinese police rough up British TV crew at Olympics
by Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 13, 2008 Chinese police roughed up a British TV crew and stopped them covering a pro-Tibet protest, witnesses said, in the latest case of interference with media freedom at...
Uneasy relations: China and the foreign press
By TIM SULLIVAN | Associated Press Writer via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAssociated Press Writer Gillian Wong contributed to this reportAugust 13, 2008 Over at the media village, China is battering them with petty kindnesses. There's one person to open the door to...
Let The Protests Begin: Groups Bash China
CBS NEWS / ASSOCIATED PRESSAugust 06, 2008 Foreign activists unfurled pro-Tibet banners at a key Olympics venue Wednesday and spoke out against China's rights record in Tiananmen Square, in the first attempts to use the white-hot spotlight of the games...
Defiant China hits out at US, stands firm on Internet
By Charles Whelan | Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJuly 31, 2008 A defiant China stood firm on controversies swirling around the Olympics on Thursday, hitting back at the United States over human rights criticism and insisting Internet...
Which websites has China blocked?
By Michael Bristow | BBC News, Main Press Centre, Beijing July 30, 2008 Internet censorship is nothing new to people logging on in China. The government blocks a number of sites it considers sensitive. It now appears that thousands...
China paper censored for Tiananmen photo
By Anita Chang | Associated Press - via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJuly 25, 2008 An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989...
China's Olympic muddle
The Christian Science Monitor July 18, 2008 Like a marathoner at the finish line, China seems whipped. It struggled two decades to host the Olympics that open in three weeks. It has spent about $50 billion, pumped up its athletes,...
Around the World, Activists Assemble to Press China on Rights
By Robin Shulman | The Washington Post 08 July 2008 Marking the one-month countdown to the start of the Beijing Olympic Games, activists gathered here and in cities around the world Tuesday to call on China to ease crackdowns on...
Olympics haven't helped China's human rights: report
By Aileen McCabe | canada.com - where perspectives connectJuly 06, 2008 With just one month to go before the opening ceremony, it is increasingly obvious worldwide efforts to use the Beijing Olympics to hold China's feet to the fire on...
China media clamps slammed a month before Olympics
By James Pomfret | REUTERS | via yahoo!news UK&IrelandJuly 07, 2008 A month before the Olympics, China continues to severely breach its pledge to allow full media freedoms, harassing and restricting foreign journalists in Tibet and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch...
China's Inside Game
By April Rabkin | The New York TimesJuly 02, 2008 Last week, amid continuing calls from activists in Europe and the United States to boycott the Olympics to protest China's record on human rights, came a rare rebuke from the...
Olympic Torch's Tibet Visit Is Short and Political
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times22 June 2008 The visit of the Olympic torch to the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, came and went in about two hours on Saturday. Leaders of the ruling Communist Party probably exhaled once the...
China Internet control unacceptable: European Commissioner
By Agence France Presse June 21, 2008 It is unacceptable for China to block Internet content, a European Commissioner said Friday, calling the Internet a free and open medium. "We say for instance to the Chinese, very clearly so, that...
China detains critic of schools collapsed by quake
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times18 June 2008 A retired Chinese schoolteacher who criticized the construction of schools that collapsed in last month's powerful earthquake has been detained, a Hong Kong-based human rights organization said Wednesday. Police detained...
Sensitive China Quake Photo Removed
By Cara Anna - The Associated Press - via ABC NEWSJune 15, 2008 A photograph hinting at shoddy school construction was pulled from an exhibition about last month's devastating earthquake, an apparent indication of rising government sensitivity over an issue...
Chinese Parents Call Off Quake Memorial After Official Warning
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJune 13, 2008 Parents who lost children in a particularly horrific school collapse during the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province scrapped their plan for a one-month mourning ceremony on Thursday after local...
Reporters kicked out of China city where schools collapsed
By Dan Martin - Agence France Presse | via (uncensored) Yahoo! NewsJune 12, 2008 Police on Thursday kicked foreign journalists out of a city where the collapse of several schools in China's earthquake drew charges of corruption from parents of...
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Police drag parents away from quake protest
By Associated Press | via ABC World News June 03, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Chinese police dragged away more than 100 parents Tuesday while they were protesting the deaths of their children in poorly constructed schools that collapsed in last...
Tiananmen Square still an almost taboo topic
By Mary-Anne Toy | The Sydney Morning HeraldJune 04, 2008 Of all the taboos in modern China, the violent quelling of the Tiananmen Square democracy protests on June 4, 1989, remains the most sensitive. Nineteen years later, China is now the...
Stern rules for foreigners at Olympics
By USA TODAY June 02, 2008 Foreigners attending the Beijing Olympics better behave -- or else. The Beijing Olympic organizing committee issued a stern, nine-page document Monday that covers 57 topics. Written in Chinese only and posted on the official...
Parents' Grief Turns to Rage at Chinese Officials
By Andrew Jacobs | The New York TimesMay 28, 2008 DUJIANGYAN, China -- Bereaved parents whose children were crushed to death in their classrooms during the earthquake in Sichuan Province have turned mourning ceremonies into protests in recent days, forcing officials...
Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Fell
By JIM YARDLEY | The New York TimesMay 25, 2008 This story was reported by Jim Yardley, Jake Hooker and Andrew C. Revkin, and was written by Mr. Yardley. Shoddy Construction "Stole Our Children," Parents Lament - Subject is Banned...
China won't guarantee Web freedom over Olympics
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsMay 08, 2008 China will not guarantee it won't censor the Internet over this summer's Beijing Olympics, nor can it guarantee to stamp out piracy of Olympic-branded goods, officials said on...
Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer | via uncensored Yahoo! News May 01, 2008 A U.S. senator accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming...
China Falls Short on Vows for Olympics
By Jill Drew and Maureen Fan | The Washington PostApril 21, 2008 China has spent billions of dollars to fulfill its commitment to stage a grand Olympics. Athletes will compete in world-class stadiums. New highways and train lines crisscross Beijing....
China seals gateway into Tibet, stops refugee flow out
By DENIS D. GRAY Associated Press Writer | ABC News April 17, 2008 FRIENDSHIP BRIDGE, Nepal-Tibet Border Three lithe Chinese security men shift silently into position so they are anchored abreast exactly midway across Friendship Bridge, high above a Himalayan river...
Foreign Media in China Harassed on Tibet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York TimesApril 07, 2008 Western reporters in China have received harassing phone calls, e-mails and text messages, some with death threats, supposedly from ordinary Chinese complaining about alleged bias in coverage of recent...
Tibet Exile Radio Says China Jamming It
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times 02 April 2008 China has intensified its jamming of a Tibetan exile radio network's news broadcasts into Tibet during a crackdown on anti-government protests there, the network charged Wednesday. The Chinese...
IOC warns China over web access
By BBC News April 01, 2008 China must ensure open access to the internet during the Beijing Games, Olympic officials have warned. Inspectors from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said China was obliged under its Games contract to provide journalists...
Pressed Over Tibet, China Berates Foreign Media
By David Barboza | The New York Times March 25, 2008 Chinese officials have sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or...
China bans Tiananmen Square live shots during Olympics
By USA TODAY March 23, 2008 Don't expect to turn on your TV during the Beijing Olympics and see live shots of Tiananmen Square, where Chinese troops crushed pro-democracy protests nearly two decades ago. Apparently unnerved by recent unrest among...
China Tries to Thwart News Reports From Tibet
By THE NEW YORK TIMES March 18, 2008 The Chinese government is restricting foreign journalists from entering Tibet and neighboring areas, and blocking some news, video and Internet reports about the protests there from appearing inside China, according to journalists...
China Blocks YouTube Over Tibet Videos
By The Associated Press | The New York Times16 March 2008 China blocked access to YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos of recent protests in Tibet appeared on the popular U.S. video Web site. The blocking added to the...
Dalai Lama calls for international probe into Tibet crackdown
By The Associated Press | International Herald Tribune March 16, 2008 The Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called Sunday for an international investigation into the crackdown against protesters in Tibet, which he said is facing a "cultural genocide." "Some...
Taiwanese to rally over China law
By Caroline Gluck | BBC World News March 16, 2008 Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take part in rival political rallies across Taiwan. What is known as Super Sunday is the last chance for big weekend rallies...
Guangdong Detains 14 As Strikers Protest Reported Death
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Some Criticisms Facing Beijing Olympics
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times February 15, 2008 Key criticisms facing Beijing's staging of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics: FOREIGN POLICY -- Hollywood director Steven Spielberg announced Tuesday he would no longer act as an artistic adviser for the...
"Why I'm taking a stand on China"
By BBC Sports | BBC World NewsFebruary 14, 2008 The International Olympic Committee insists it was right to award the 2008 Games to Beijing despite concerns over China's human rights record. But that has not stopped some sportsmen and...
China blocks shoot of Haafstroem's 'Shanghai'
By AFP | via (uncensored) Yahoo! News February 09, 2008 Chinese authorities have barred Mikael Haafstroem from shooting his film "Shanghai", set to star John Cusack and Gong Li, in China, the Swedish director said in an interview published Saturday....
Dissident's Arrest Hints at Olympic Crackdown
By Jim Yardley | The New York Times30 January 2008 When state security agents burst into his apartment last month, Hu Jia was chatting on Skype, the Internet-based telephone system. Mr. Hu's computer was his most potent tool. He disseminated...
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