Category Archives: Headlines

Chinese Government Tightens Constraints on Press Freedom

By MICHAEL FORSYTHEJUNE 19, 2014

HONG KONG — China introduced new restrictions on what the government has called “critical” news articles and barred Chinese journalists from doing work outside their beats or regions, putting further restraints on reporters in one of the world’s most controlled news media environments.

Reporters in China must now seek permission from their employers before undertaking “critical reports” and are barred from setting up their own websites, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television announced in new rules Wednesday. Continue reading

A showdown looms-China’s most prosperous city is becoming dangerously polarised

 

Jun 21st 2014

FOR years after the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s leaders surprised the world by adhering scrupulously to Hong Kong’s unusual political set-up of “one country, two systems”. Continue reading

Jail Term of China’s Human Rights Lawyer to End in August

2014-06-20


Gao Zhisheng during an interview at his office in Beijing, in a file photo.
AFP
Jailed human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, one of China’s highest-profile dissidents, is scheduled to complete his three-year prison term at a remote jail in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang in early August, Continue reading

US Move to Upgrade China in Human Trafficking Ranking Questioned

2014-06-20

By Parameswaran Ponnudurai


Chinese police take away alleged sex workers and clients at an entertainment center in Dongguan, southern China’s Guangdong province, Feb. 9, 2014.
Photo: RFA
The U.S. State Department on Friday upgraded China Continue reading

TONY HORWITZ: I Was a Digital Best Seller!

By TONY HORWITZJUNE 19, 2014

Credit Anna Parini
WEST TISBURY, Mass. — FIVE months ago I published a short book called “Boom.” Commercially it was a bust. No news in that: Most books lose money and are quickly forgotten by all but their wounded authors. Continue reading

Rural ‘Eco-Museum’ in China Preserves a Song Tradition, and a People’s Culture

June 20th, 2014 by Ken Smith 

The rural Chinese village of Dimen, above, in southwest China’s Guizhou province, is home to the Dong minority — and the recently founded Dimen Dong Eco-Museum. Continue reading

Hong Kong’s Most Dangerous Man Wants People to Vote

By Bruce Einhorn June 20, 2014

Occupy Central organizer Benny Tai
Photograph by Bobby Yip/Landov
Benny Tai, a soft-spoken law professor at the University of Hong Kong, is the man behind Occupy Central with Love and Peace, Continue reading

CloudFlare: Hong Kong democracy movement hit by ‘one of largest DDoS attacks in internet history’

Occupy Central, a grassroots movement that aims to bring universal suffrage to Hong Kong, has been subject to “one of the largest and most persistent DDoS attacks in the history of the Internet,” Continue reading