The Chinese authorities, who last month unexpectedly dropped a state secrets case against a jailed researcher for The New York Times, have started an investigation period that could lead to reinstating the charges against him by early May, his lawyer said Monday. The possibility of resuming the case undercuts speculation that withdrawal of the case last month was intended as a prelude to releasing...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended its latest rules controlling foreign access to domestic media and television on Tuesday, saying the government was simply protecting intellectual property rights but was still committed to an open market. Senior officials also said Chinese people preferred reading foreign magazines on science and technology -- which are permitted by the government -- and that...
(RSF/IFEX) - A Reporters Without Borders team stationed itself with a video player outside Yahoo!'s California headquarters on 7 April 2006 and stopped employees as they left the building, offering to show them videos filmed in China of people criticising Yahoo!'s cooperation with the Chinese police. The videos, which can be downloaded from the Reporters Without Borders website ( http://www.rsf...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has called on World Trade Organisation (WTO) member states to oppose a series of restrictive measures just adopted by the Chinese government which are a complete violation of WTO principles and will jeopardise the liberalisation and development of the Chinese media. China joined the WTO in 2001. "The credibility of China's integration into the WTO requires a...
BEIJING, China (UPI) -- Eleven of China`s major news Web sites endorsed a self-censorship proposal Wednesday to block pornographic and violent Internet content. Such sites as Xinhuanet.com, People.com.cn, China.com.cn, Chinadaily.com.cn, and Chinanews.com issued a joint statement saying they would participate in compliance with the 'Eight Honors and Disgraces,' a new concept of socialist morality...
BEIJING, April 12 – Google's chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt, whose technology company has been sharply criticized for complying with Chinese censors, said today that Google was not lobbying to change the country's censorship laws and, for now, had no plans to do so. "I think it's arrogant for us to walk into a country where we are just beginning operations and tell that country how to run itself...
China has placed a moratorium on new foreign magazines on topics other than science and technology, dealing a blow to international media companies looking to tap the nation's booming advertising market. One casualty of the policy, adopted by China's top publishing regulator, is the Chinese edition of the rock and youth-culture magazine Rolling Stone. The magazine had published its first edition...
Jerry Yang, one of the co-founders of Internet giant Yahoo, defended the Internet search engine's cooperation with the Chinese government's censorship of the Web, saying it was necessary to reach out to new users, an AFP report said. The report said lawmakers had accused tech giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft of helping sustain the so-called "Great Firewall of China," which blocked searches of...
The number of journalists in China has doubled compared with 20 years earlier, official statistics show. Figures released by the General Administration of Press and Publication indicated that more than 700,000 people chose journalism as their career last year, 150,000 of them armed with a journalist certificate. According to the administration, Chinese journalists are increasingly entering the...
The number of journalists in China has doubled compared with 20 years earlier, official statistics show. Figures released by the General Administration of Press and Publication indicated that more than 700,000 people chose journalism as their career last year, 150,000 of them armed with a journalist certificate. According to the administration, Chinese journalists are increasingly entering the...
