Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'news 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the hunt for China's child snatchers
By BBC World NewsNovember 27, 2009 Over 2,000 trafficked children have been rescued since China's government began a crackdown on the trade in stolen children earlier this year. But as the BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from Beijing, many thousands of...
China AIDS sufferers face widespread discrimination: U.N.
By REUTERS | via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsNovember 27, 2009 People in China living with HIV and AIDS face widespread discrimination and stigma, with even medical workers sometimes refusing to touch them, according to a U.N. survey released on Friday. China's...
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...
Many 'missing' after China riots
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsOctober 21, 2009 Dozens of ethnic Uighurs have disappeared since being detained in the wake of the riots in China's Xinjiang region, a human rights group has said. Human Rights Watch said the 43...
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...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Police swarm Tiananmen Square on anniversary
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ, Associated Press Writers via UNCENSORED Yahoo! News04 June 2009 BEIJING - In Tiananmen Square, police were ready to pounce at the first sign of protest. In Hong Kong, a sea of candles flickered in...
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...
20 years on, Tiananmen survivors demand 'truth' from China
By Agence France Presse (AFP) | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsMay 26, 2009 Exiled Chinese dissidents who survived the 1989 crackdown on the Tiananmen Square demonstration said on Tuesday that, after 20 years, China should be held to account for the...
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...
No blame in China school collapse
By Michael Bristow | BBC World NewsMay 08, 2009 China says it has found no evidence that human negligence caused schools to collapse during last year's earthquake. Thousands of schools were damaged while buildings nearby remained intact in the massive...
In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger
By Jill Drew - Washington Post Foreign Service | THE WASHINGTON POST May 03, 2009 JUYUAN, China -- After last May's massive earthquake buried her son under tons of shattered concrete at his collapsed school, Han Xuehua, numb and disbelieving,...
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...
China Terrorizes Tibet
The New York Times EditorialMarch 18, 2009 It was impossible not to notice that the United States removed China from its list of top 10 human rights violators just as the biggest anti-China protests in 20 years erupted in Tibet....
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...
China "mothers" urge reckoning with 1989 bloodshed
By REUTERS | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsFebruary 27, 2009 A group representing families of demonstrators killed or maimed in the armed crackdown on the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago has urged China to name the dead, denouncing official silence...
Huang Qi
EDITORIAL - THE NEW YORK TIMES08 February 2009 In a changing world, one unfortunate constant is the abhorrent ways in which China abuses its people. Huang Qi is a victim of that abuse because he dared to help other victims...
Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake
By Sharon LaFraniere | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 06, 2009 Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity...
China Rights Advocate Who Tried to Aid Quake Victims' Parents Faces Trial
By Edward Wong | THE NEW YORK TIMESFebruary 03, 2009 A human rights advocate who tried to help grieving parents push for an official investigation into a school that collapsed during May's earthquake in Sichuan Province has been charged with...
What shoe? China media quiet on shoe thrown at Wen
By Henry Sanderson - Associated Press | via UNCENSORED Yahoo!NewsFebruary 03, 2009 China's foreign ministry and media on Tuesday denounced a man who hurled his shoe at the country's premier and called him a dictator on a visit to Britain...
Tibetan Youth Dies in Custody
By RADIO FREE ASIAJanuary 30, 2009 A Tibetan youth detained for his role in a nonviolent protest has been beaten to death by police, Tibetan sources say. Pema Tsepak, 24, a resident of Punda town in the Dzogang county of...
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...
Another Tibet--Uighur Mirrors the Issues in Tibet
By Matthias Kehrein and Florian Godovits | The Epoch TimesJanuary 05, 2009 The Uighurs, a nine million Muslim minority, residing in Eastern Turkistan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, are one of the worst abused people at the hands of the...
Parents of China Milk Scandal Victims Detained
By REUTERS | The Epoch TimesJanuary 02, 2009 BEIJING--A group of parents whose children fell ill from drinking tainted Chinese milk have been detained by police apparently trying to block them from holding a news conference, one of the fathers...
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...
'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...
The Olympics' age-old problem
By Dan Wetzel | Yahoo! Sports via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 15, 2008 For a long time, elements of the Chinese government itself thought women's gymnast He Kexin was born Jan. 1, 1994, which would make her 14 and too young...
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 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 says denial of access to US ship a 'misunderstanding'
By Radio Singapore InternationalNovember 29, 2007 China has informed Washington that its refusal last week to allow a US Navy aircraft carrier into Hong Kong was a 'misunderstanding'. This follows a formal complaint lodged by the US Defense Department over...
Pentagon issues formal protest to China
By USA TODAYNovember 28, 2007 The Pentagon issued a formal protest to China on Wednesday over its refusal to permit a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier to make a planned Thanksgiving port visit to Hong Kong. "We are expressing officially our...
China silent on miners' fate
by CNN August 20, 2007 Distressed family members shouted and scuffled with guards after a third day without word on 172 miners trapped in a flooded mine in eastern China, where rescue crews began pumping water Sunday. Paramilitary police and...
China bans reporting on bridge collapse
By CHARLES HUTZLER | Associated Press | via (uncensored) Yahoo! News August 17, 2007 Communist authorities have banned most state media from reporting on the deadly collapse of a bridge in southern China, with local officials punching and chasing reporters...
Report: China Curbs Foreign Satellite TV
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | The New York Times August 4, 2007 China is cracking down on cable television operators who offer unauthorized foreign satellite broadcasts -- the communist government's latest bid to maintain its monopoly on information, a newspaper...
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