Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'media control'

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...

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...

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...

Chinese Artist Who Led Protest Has Been Jailed, His Wife Says

By Edward Wong | The New York TimesJuly 08, 2010 Wu Yuren, an artist who helped lead an unusually bold public protest last winter over a land dispute, has been languishing in a Beijing jail for almost six weeks after...

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...

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...

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...

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'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....

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 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...

Cyberwar declared as China hunts for the West's intelligence secrets

Michael Evans, Giles Whittell | TimesOnLine (United Kingdom)March 08, 2010 Urgent warnings have been circulated throughout Nato and the European Union for secret intelligence material to be protected from a recent surge in cyberwar attacks originating in China. The attacks...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

In Rebuke of China, Focus Falls on Cybersecurity

By Miguel Helft and John Markoff | The New York Times13 January 2010 Even before Google threatened to pull out of China in response to an attack on its computer systems, the company was notifying activists whose e-mail accounts might...

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...

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...

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...

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'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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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....

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...

More Than 140 Dead in Clashes in China's Xinjiang Province

By Simon Elegant | TIME Magazine in Partnership with CNNMonday, July 06, 2009 Chinese authorities announced today that some 140 people had been killed and over 800 wounded in protests that roiled Urumqi, the capital of China's far western Xinjiang...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Opinion: Dissent remains silenced in China

By Wu'er Kaixi | CNNMay 31, 2009 Editor's note: Wu'er Kaixi was a student leader in 1989, and since then has been living in exile outside of China. On June 4 this year, it will have been 20 years since...

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...

Netizens Defy Tiananmen Silencing

By RADIO FREE ASIAApril 22, 2009 As the 20-year anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown approaches, Chinese netizens find ways to work around government censorship. HONG KONG An article criticizing China's deadly 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing has...

1.9 lakh killed in China's nuclear tests ***

*** lakh is a unit in the Indian measuring system 1.9 lakh = 190,000 Thus title means 190,000 killed in China's nuclear testsThe Times of India - April 19, 2009 The nuclear test grounds in the wastes of the Gobi...

Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines

By SHARON LaFRANIERE | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 11, 2009 ZHONGLOU, China -- When an underground fire killed 35 men at the bottom of a coal shaft last year, the telltale signs of another Chinese mining disaster were everywhere: Black...

China quake activist detained: rights group

By AFP (Agence France Presse) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsApril 01, 2009 Police in southwestern China have detained an activist who was investigating whether shoddy construction caused school collapses in last year's massive earthquake, a rights groups said Wednesday. The...

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...

Oasis China concerts are shelved

By BBC World News 02 March 2009 Oasis' debut concerts in China have been cancelled after the authorities revoked the band's licences to play, deeming them "unsuitable". Shows in Beijing and Shanghai due to take place next month have been...

Obama speech censored in China

By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsJanuary 21, 2009 China has censored parts of the new US president's inauguration speech that have appeared on a number of websites. Live footage of the event on state television also cut away from...

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...

Post-Olympics China Turns Its Back On Internet Censorship Promises

By Jason Mick | DAILYTECH.COMDecember 18, 2008 Just when you thought China had softened on web crack-downs, it returns to its old ways   China has not exactly been known for its great freedom of speech.  Its citizens' internet access is tightly...

China says within rights to block some websites

By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 16, 2008 China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the country was within its rights to block websites with content illegal under Chinese law, including websites that referred to China and Taiwan as two...

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 Irritated with 'Slanderous' U.N. Report on Rights

By Andrew Jacobs | THE NEW YORK TIMESNovember 25, 2008 The Chinese government reacted angrily on Monday to what it called a slanderous United Nations report that alleges systemic torture of political and criminal detainees. The government said the authors...

Everyone's a Critic: China Blasts "Chinese Democracy"

By Dave Itzkoff | The New York TimesNovember 24, 2008 It's no secret how the Chinese government feels about democracy. Now it has weighed in on "Chinese Democracy," too. The Associated Press reported that The Global Times, the official tabloid...

'Post-Olympic era' off to a rocky start in China

By CNN - The World's Largest NetworkSeptember 17, 2008 The Olympic flame is out, the smog is back, and traffic again clogs the roads. Welcome to what commentators are calling China's "post-Olympic era," in which euphoria over the Beijing Games...

Tibetan Monks Still Held in Qinghai

By Radio Free Asia August 28, 2008 Months after widespread Tibetan protests against Chinese rule, hundreds of monks are detained in Qinghai. Hundreds of Tibetan monks detained after widespread protests against Chinese rule earlier this year were deported from the...

China 'blocks' iTunes music store

By BBC World NewsAugust 22, 2008 Apple iTunes customers in China fear the online store has been blocked after a pro-Tibet album featured on the site became a hit. The site has been unavailable inside China for the past week....

Olympic ceremony singer faked performance

By Mure Dickie | FINANCIAL TIMES (United Kingdom)August 12, 2008 Organisers of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony faked a young girl's rendition of a revolutionary anthem following a late intervention by top leaders of China's ruling Communist party, the event's...

Under Olympics House Arrest

By RADIO FREE ASIAAugust 1st, 2008 Key rights advocates and social activists across China will spend the Olympics confined to their homes under round the clock surveillance. Some have been warned off talking to the media, while others cannot be...

China Bans Foreign Cartoons

TIME Magazine February 20, 2008 SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are officially persona non grata on Chinese prime time. China is extending a ban that virtually locks out all foreign cartoons from airing between 5 p.m. to 9 p.m....