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Innovation Through Intimidation: An Empirical Account of Defamation Litigation in China – Benjamin L. Liebman

Posted by | Mar 6, 2006

From Harvard International Law Journal, via SSRN (link): Abstract: This article examines 223 recent defamation cases in China. Empirical analysis of claims and outcomes reveals that defamation litigation is developing on two tracks. Track-one cases are brought by public officials, government and Communist Party entities, and corporations to restrict and silence the increasingly autonomous Chinese […]

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Murdoch considers exit from China deal – Mure Dickie et al

Posted by | Feb 24, 2006

From MSNBC (link): News Corp has discussed withdrawing from Phoenix Satellite Television, its Hong Kong-based Chinese television joint venture, in a move that would see Rupert Murdoch walk away from his most successful effort to break into China’s tightly controlled media market. People familiar with the situation said News Corp had talked about selling all […]

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The Click That Broke a Government’s Grip – Philip P. Pan

Posted by | Feb 19, 2006

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 […]

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Tentacles reach for Africa – Jean-Pierre Tuquoi

Posted by | Feb 9, 2006

From 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 […]

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Editor fired over reports criticising authorities – Irene Wang

Posted by | Feb 9, 2006

From 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 […]

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Net portals braced for more curbs on content – Lieu Siew Ying

Posted by | Feb 9, 2006

From 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 […]

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A Serious Matter – Qige

Posted by | Jan 19, 2006

From 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...

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A Stand Against China’s Pollution Tide – Edward Cody

Posted by | Jan 12, 2006

From 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 […]

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Journalists protest Chinese censorship – David Lague (UPDATED)

Posted by | Dec 30, 2005

From 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, […]

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