From The Washington Post: Although just a fraction of all Chinese go online — and most who do play games, download music or gossip with friends — widespread Internet use in the nation’s largest cities and among the educated is changing the way Chinese learn about the world and weakening the Communist Party’s monopoly on […]
Read MoreFrom the Guardian: The Chinese workers who have been busy for months laying paving stones in front of the white marble senate building in Libreville, Gabon, have finished. But another job awaits them across the road, with the construction of a media centre commissioned by President Omar Bongo. Thousands of kilometres to the northwest, in […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A chief editor of the outspoken Beijing-based newspaper the Public Interest Times was sacked yesterday after executives came under pressure from the authorities amid the ongoing tightening of official control over the media. Sources inside the newspaper said it was announced that Chen Jieren, 34, who […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Mainland internet companies are expecting new controls over their content that would prevent them from posting political and current affairs articles published by metropolitan newspapers on their websites, sources said. But articles from magazines and party newspapers would be exempt from the soon-to-be-announced directives, the sources […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai-based Qitunshuijiao (气吞水饺) Blog on MSN Spaces: (translated by CDT, links embedded by CDT): After finishing my work as an entertainment journalist I finally have time to do something for those suffering...
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Tired and frustrated, Wang Guoxiang and other Xiangtan city officials were slurping a midnight snack of instant noodles last Friday when the anti-pollution chief for Hunan province walked into their crisis room. Immediately, Wang said, he stopped eating and shouted at the visitor. At the top of his voice, he insisted […]
Read MoreFrom the International Herald Tribune: In a rare protest against an official media crackdown, about 100 journalists from one of China’s most aggressive daily newspapers have gone on strike after the paper’s editor and two of his deputies were fired, local journalists said Friday. The editor of the Beijing News, Yang Bin, and deputy editors, […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via SanDiego.com: The top editor of one of China’s boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media. Yang Bin, the editor-in-chief of the Beijing News – a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds – was removed on […]
Read MoreFrom Truthdig: Perhaps no other country has so many positive and negative trends as the home of a quarter of the world’s population. Editor’s Note: First the Terminator, then the president – there’s no shortage of people trekking to China, filled with wonderment and doubt about the future of the world’s most populous nation and […]
Read MoreFrom The Globe and Mail: Hundreds of riot police are maintaining tight control over all exits from a Chinese village where dozens of protesters were reportedly killed or injured by police gunfire last week.Chinese authorities are keeping an equally tight lid on news media coverage of the bloody crackdown on protesters. Only a single authorized […]
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