Yesterday, TechInAsia reported that Chinese Internet giant Tencent’s massively popular messaging app WeChat has begun applying censorship policy to users residing outside of China: Right now, the Chinese name of the...
Read MoreNot even one month into the new year, many China observers have already called the protests at Southern Weekly this past week the story of 2013. The public show of resistance to egregious censorship has unfolded on a scale...
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Read MoreDer Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand recaps the tragic November death of 5 homeless boys in Guizhou, and the official backlash faced by journalist Li Yuanlong after he brought the story to light: Unemployed journalist Li’s...
Read MoreJapan sent fighter jets to the disputed Diaoyu Islands on Thursday after it detected several Chinese military planes in the area, according to Japanese media. From AFP (via the South China Morning Post): The Chinese planes were...
Read MoreThe Wall Street Journal reports that the Hong Kong government is considering a proposal that activists and journalists argue would hamper local press freedom: In a paper submitted to the legislature this week, the government...
Read MoreZhu Chengzhi may have become the first to be detained under new amendments to China’s Criminal Procedure Law. Amid fierce criticism, the changes passed through the National People’s Congress by a vote of 2,639 to 160...
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Read MoreAfter a weeklong stand-off with local propaganda officials, which included street protests, a staff strike, and weibo battles, Southern Weekly published its weekly edition Thursday as scheduled. But the publication did not come...
Read MoreTang Danhong is a poet and filmmaker from Chengdu, Sichuan. She currently lives in Israel. She blogs at Moments of Samsara [zh] and tweets @DanHongTang. This essay was first published January 2013 in Hong Kong’s Open Magazine...
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the row over censorship at the Guangdong-based Southern Weekly spread to Beijing, as its half-sister the Beijing News initially refused instructions to republish a critical Global Times editorial on the...
Read MoreIn May, Google users in China who searched politically sensitive terms discovered a new feature when they used the search engine: a pop-up notice informing them why their search yields no results, and that the filtering is out...
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