Tag Archive | China
Media Censorship: Popular Talk Show Hosts Axed
Two popular television hosts are fired in Hong Kong, raising fears that Chinese censors are exerting undue influence over the island. An elderly man reads a newspaper in a workshop in Hong Kong. Hong Kong’s government broadcaster has said it won’t renew the contracts of two popular current-affairs talk show hosts in 2012, sparking fears [...]
China: Editor Jailed Amid Graft Probe
The case highlights widespread corruption in the Chinese official media. A newspaper vendor at his stall in Beijing. Authorities in the Chinese capital have handed down a 13-year jail term to a former top editor convicted of bribery. Liu Chongzhou, a former editor-in-chief of the China Land and Resources newspaper, was sentenced on Wednesday by [...]
Internet Censorship: Chinese Censors Target Citizen Journalists
Chinese media controls aim to limit ‘fabricated, inaccurate’ reporting. China’s censors have issued strict new rules to journalists in state-run media, warning that those who report information the government deems “inaccurate” could lose their press cards or face jail. But analysts said on Friday that the rules could in fact be aimed at ordinary Chinese [...]
Free Speech: Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Not Fearful of Re-Arrest
Chinese dissident artist says he will pursue the truth until he gets a ‘satisfactory answer.’ Fighting tax evasion charges, outspoken Chinese artist and human rights activist Ai Weiwei said Tuesday he did not fear re-arrest, suggesting that the authorities were using the tax issue as a security tool to muzzle criticism. “I have no fear [...]
Media Censorship: Mine Probe Reporter Threatened
A journalist is targeted for his work covering coal-seam exploitation in central China. A top investigative journalist who exposed the problem of land subsidence in the poverty-stricken coal-mining heartland of Shanxi says he has received anonymous phone calls and threats linked to his work in recent days. “A lot of people have called me up, [...]
Government Control, Censorship: Tibetan Art Show Closed
Chinese authorities move to restrict expressions of Tibetan national culture. Chinese authorities in the Tibetan capital Lhasa have closed an exhibition of Tibetan art amid growing efforts by Tibetans to assert their cultural and national identity in a region increasingly dominated by Han Chinese. The exhibition, which was shut down two hours after it opened, [...]
Internet Censorship: China to Tighten Controls on Internet, Social Media
Move meant to thwart political activists use of new technologies to express public discontent. Stephanie Ho | Beijing Chinese leaders are announcing new plans to strengthen controls over the Internet and other social media, following a year where such technologies have played a key role in channeling public discontent, around the world. But the Internet’s [...]
Internet Censorship: China Plans Social Media Crackdown
China plans new measures to limit online criticism. In the highest-level indication of a wider Internet crackdown in China, the ruling Communist Party’s central committee has announced plans to tighten controls on online social media and instant messaging tools. The move comes after repeated warnings by officials over the explosion of microblog services which netizens [...]
China Defends Internet Censorship Against US Trade Query
China is defending its censorship of the Internet and suggesting U.S. objections to the practice amount to interference in China’s internal affairs. The United States had asked for an explanation why China blocks American companies from providing their services to Chinese customers over the Internet. Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Jiang Yu did not respond directly to [...]
Authorities in Southwestern China Downplay the Effects of a Chemical Spill in Yangtze Tributary
Authorities in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan confirmed on Wednesday that a road accident had triggered the spillage of 38 tons of concentrated sulphuric acid into a tributary of the Yangtze River. The spill happened on Sunday after two vehicles collided on a bridge where the Chaotian to Guangyuan section of the Guangdong to [...]
Chinese Activist Warned Off Foreign Media
But government threats are unlikely to silence China’s rights activists, some analysts say. Authorities in Beijing have warned civil rights campaigner Hu Jia not to give any more interviews to foreign media organizations and to stay away from further activism. But the activist has questioned the legality of the government order. Hu, who rose to [...]
China: Party Elders Meet, Debate ‘Culture’, Censorship
China’s Party plenum meets to discuss culture, despite a worsening economic crisis. China’s ruling Communist Party leaders are meeting in Beijing to debate ‘cultural reforms,’ which some interpret as a tightening of control over media and the Internet, ahead of a leadership succession scheduled for next year. With a worsening economic crisis overseas and a [...]
