From Financial Times: A senior official of China’s Xinhua News Agency has cited “numerous violations” of tax and other laws by foreign counterparts as justification for rules banning them from dealing directly with local clients. The rules, which also give Xinhua the power to censor news and information distributed in China by foreign news agencies […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: On Sunday, China’s official news agency Xinhua issued a new set of directives on the distribution of foreign news in China that reinforces its traditional role as gatekeeper and propaganda arm. That role includes filtering news and pictures from international news agencies, which are forbidden from selling their content direct […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua net via sina.com, translated by CDT: Hou Jianjun, former Liaoning Provincial Congress’s delegate member and chairman of a transportation company in Fushun City, had a verbal fight with a pedestrian while driving early one morning in March last year. Then it escalated into a fistfight. And the incident spiraled out of control with […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Given the global admiration that China’s economic ascendancy inspires abroad these days, it’s easy to forget the mainland is run by a one-party state with a near-obsessive need to control sensitive information. It is both a 21st century economic phenomenon“and a massive surveillance state. And if you doubt that Big Brother lives […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: The mainland’s definition of a “state secret” is so wide and vague that it could be applied to almost anything. Any information that has not been published in the state-controlled press is considered secret. Ching’s trial was closed to prevent the release of any “state secrets”. […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: …The benefits of the Internet are apparent to all, especially insofar as many people now have a channel for expressing their own thoughts, perspectives and feelings such as they never before had. But I also believe it’s inadvisable at the moment to get one’s hopes up too high over the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese health official once hailed as a hero for his work in fighting the spread of SARS has been jailed for life for taking “huge” bribes from vaccine distributors, state media said on Saturday. Luo Yaoxing, an official with the Guangdong Provincial Disease Prevention and Control Centre, was convicted and sentenced on […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese court jailed a blind human rights campaigner for four years and three months on Thursday, state media announced, prompting other activists to warn of a clampdown on China’s “rights defenders.” Chen Guangcheng, who was tried last Friday without his own lawyers present, drew international attention last year by accusing officials in […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China has blamed fraud in project approvals and failure to apply emission control measures for rising pollution, state media reported Monday, as the authorities grappled with the environmental impact of headlong economic growth. The director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, Zhou Shengxian, said pollution had increased in 17 provinces […]
Read MoreFrom Danwei: They are coming after Danwei TV! The Beijing News reported today that China will launch new regulations to control Internet short video clips (link) – in Chinese). Video clips will have to be registered with SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film and TV) before they are published on the Internet. However, large Internet […]
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