Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 28, 2019
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 28, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 26, 2018
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Jul 25, 2016
Commenting on the massive flooding that has led to at least 164 deaths in northern China over the...
by Cindy | Jul 11, 2016
Nearly two hundred people have been killed and 1.5 million displaced in recent weeks as a result...
by Cindy | Jul 8, 2016
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 6, 2013
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 18, 2013
Residents of Yuyao, Zhejiang have taken to the streets to condemn the official response to...
by Anne Henochowicz | Oct 17, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Josh Rudolph | Oct 16, 2013
Typhoon Fitow landed in southeastern China last week, devastating many populated regions. Over the...
by Anne Henochowicz | Oct 16, 2013
Anger at the official response to historic flooding in Yuyao, Zhejiang mounted over the weekend,...
by Cindy | Aug 20, 2013
At least 107 people were reported dead and hundreds more missing after floods caused by heavy rain...
by Scott Greene | Jul 19, 2013
Torrential rains on Thursday and Friday have flooded Kunming, in Yunnan province, as Xinhua News reports that 2 people are dead and 1 still missing in the city’s third major flood since a drought ended in May: The downpour...
by Sophie Beach | Jul 13, 2013
The death toll of this week’s flooding and landslide in Dujiangyan City, Sichuan continues to climb, with 43 now reported dead and dozens more still missing. From CNN: Some 118 people across Dujiangyan City — mostly...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 11, 2013
Heavy rainstorms hit south-west China this week, triggering a landslide on Wednesday which buried up to 40 people in the city of Dujiangyan, an area previously devastated by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake. Rescuers have so far...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 29, 2013
This week saw the release of China’s first national water report, covering “river conditions, water conservancy projects, water consumption, river development and management, and water and soil conservation in...
by Melissa M. Chan | Feb 17, 2013
Chinese state media reports that a dam in Shanxi has collapsed causing the shutdown of a highway. This comes amid criticism of the Shanxi government’s cover up of a water contamination incident due to an industrial aniline...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 23, 2012
The Three Gorges Dam finally reached full power output in July, but geological risks are forcing some 120,000 people living along its reservoir to relocate, many for the second time. From Reuters’ Sui-Lee Wee: Landslides...