Minireview: 2018 in Censorship (Jan-Oct)
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government...
floods
Minitrue: Delete Article on Shouguang Suicide
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Strengthen Control on Shouguang Floods
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Badiucao (巴丢草): Outrage Over Official Flood Handling
Commenting on the massive flooding that has led to at least 164 deaths in northern China over the...
Media & Censors Promote Positivity on Deadly Floods
Nearly two hundred people have been killed and 1.5 million displaced in recent weeks as a result...
Severe Flood Damage Traced to Corruption, Overbuilding
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
China’s Dam Boom “a Faustian Bargain”
China has built 22,000 dams taller than 15 meters since the 1950s, displacing some 16 million...
Chill In Social Media Apparent in Flood Response
Residents of Yuyao, Zhejiang have taken to the streets to condemn the official response to...
Ministry of Truth: “Mass Petitioning” After Flood
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Riot Police Block New Protests by Flood Victims in Yuyao
Typhoon Fitow landed in southeastern China last week, devastating many populated regions. Over the...
Sensitive Words: Riot in Yuyao After Flood
Anger at the official response to historic flooding in Yuyao, Zhejiang mounted over the weekend,...
Floods Leave At Least 107 Dead in China
At least 107 people were reported dead and hundreds more missing after floods caused by heavy rain...
Heavy Flooding in Kunming Kills 2
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...
43 Reported Dead in Flooding
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...
Dozens Buried in Sichuan Landslide
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...
China’s Massive Water Problem
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...
Dam Breach in Shanxi Leads to Flooding, Evacuation
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...
Thousands to Move, Again, from Three Gorges
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...
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