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From Asia Times: Wait a minute: what is a show about a group of single women obsessed with shoes and sex doing on China’s primetime TV schedule? Aren’t China’s TV censors known for diligently filtering out any content that is deemed unsuitable? Welcome to the grey area of China’s media policy, a zone where foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Maclean’s: If Japan was a surging tide, then China is a tsunami. The globe’s most populous country turned manufacturing juggernaut has a one-two punch of low-cost labour and homegrown national champions taking the world by storm. Its economy, which has been growing above nine per cent for a decade, has already surpassed Japan’s in […]
Read MoreFrom Interfax: All mobile phone and Xiaolingtong (PHS) subscribers in Shanghai, new and old, will have to register their legal names with city authorities beginning September 1, the Shanghai Communications Administration and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) said on Friday. “We have tightened control in order to protect mobile phone users from malicious and […]
Read MoreFrom National Public Radio: For the first time, Chinese farmers are not paying a harvest tax. Beijing is lifting the tax to fight growing unrest in the countryside that in the past has brought on revolution. Listen to the story here.
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists. A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle […]
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