From BBC News: China is to bring in new financial incentives to encourage people in rural areas to have fewer children in another bid to control its rising population. From next year, parents in the countryside will get an annual payment when they reach the age of 60, provided they have only one child, or […]
Read MoreChina’s government tightened the noose on newspapers once again with new rules revealed last month that allow courts to withhold a greater range of information from reporters. As with previous noose-tightenings, Caijing came out with a bold response, just now made available in summarized form on its English site: It a major step backward for […]
Read MoreThe Council on Foreign Relations has prepared a Backgrounder on the recent crackdown on the media in China: The upcoming 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and recent regulations about the distribution of news from foreign wire services are drawing international attention to censorship tactics in China. Even as the country’s burgeoning economy allows greater diversity […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: When people are armed with camera phones, information is harder to quash. Much has been made of the great democratizing impact of the new media – the fact that anyone with a laptop, a modem, and a website can be a journalist. …… Eric Zhang, a former staffer at the […]
Read MoreFrom Financial Times: An attempt by China’s Xinhua news agency to tighten controls on foreign rivals has sparked fierce criticism abroad and rumbles of discontent at home – but no trace of such negativism finds its way into the agency’s own reports. While international agencies such as Reuters have covered Beijing’s defence of the new […]
Read MoreFrom VOA, via China Confidential blog: Foreign investors and media companies are awaiting word on how China plans to enforce a set of restrictions it announced earlier this month on the foreign media. The restrictions are widely viewed as an attempt by the government to keep control of the country’s growing, lucrative media market. Analysts […]
Read MoreSeveral media outlets and human rights organizations have reacted to the recent announcement by Xinhua that the official news agency would be responsible for all news distribution in China. From a New York Times editorial: China has long prided itself on its ability to master capitalism without indulging in the messy business of democracy. So […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: Mainstream Chinese media have not yet commented on regulations issued yesterday through Xinhua News Agency that formalize already strict limitations on cooperation between Chinese media and foreign newswires [NYT coverage], but critical blogs and web postings (with a trickle in support) are already multiplying. The following are postings (or gentie) that […]
Read MoreFrom VOA News: China has unveiled a new set of restrictions on the type of news content foreign agencies can distribute in China. Press freedom advocates say the move is the latest attempt by the communist government to clamp down on the free flow of information. The state-owned Xinhua News Agency on Sunday said it […]
Read MoreFrom China Media Project: In a statement yesterday former badminton champion Zhou Mi turned her fire on Chinese and foreign media, responding to speculation she planned to relinquish her Chinese nationality and play for Malaysia’s national team. Zhou said the situation, which has been dubbed the “Zhou Mi Affair” (Âë®Ëúú‰∫㉪∂), spun out of control because […]
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