From AP via Teipei Times: A journalist serving a 13-year jail term for reporting about a bogus irrigation project has been released five years early to official acclaim for his determination in fighting against corruption (see CDT report on this). Gao Qinrong, previously an investigative journalist for the Xinhua news agency in Shanxi Province, was […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: In a country where media censorship is national policy, Liu Jianqiang has pulled off some remarkable journalistic scoops. When a wealthy socialite struck and killed a farmer with her BMW in northeastern China three years ago — and then got off with a slap on the wrist — it was […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: What does a bribery case involving a hospital director in the Chinese city of Changde have to do with Hollywood actress Demi Moore? Absolutely nothing. But a perplexing mixture of pilfered Web photos and sensational law and order content smash the two together on a recent issue of Legal News Compendium […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: Chinese shoemakers on Wednesday said they would sue the European Union over anti-dumping duties imposed on their products. Four Chinese footwear companies will tell Europe’s second-highest court that...
Read MoreFrom Shanghaiist Blog: From the unreadable without a proxy BBC we find that Lu Jianhua, a scholar with the Chinese academy of social sciences (CASS) has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. The information has yet to be released widely in the media, though we wouldn’t be surprised if it got less play than […]
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