As Publishers Fight Amazon, Books Vanish

By DAVID STREITFELD and MELISSA EDDY MAY 23, 2014 7:24 AM 593 

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As of Friday morning, the paperback edition of Brad Stone’s Continue reading

Please Attend the Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the June 4 Massacre in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC Next Saturday on May 31, 2014

Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A817-O230

中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号:A817-O230

 

Release Date: May 24, 2014

发布日:2014年5月24日

 

Topic: Please Attend the Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the June 4 Massacre in Front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington DC Next Saturday on May 31, 2014 Continue reading

Zhang Jialong:Circumstances of My Dismissal from Tencent

published: May 24, 2014

 

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ZHANG JIALONG AND SECRETARY KERRY ON FEBRUARY 15, 2014.
On May 20th, I was notified by the department head at Tencent that I was being suspended, citing radical expressions I made in my meeting with the Continue reading

Chinese blogger ‘fired’ after John Kerry meeting

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 25 May, 2014, 10:40am

UPDATED : Sunday, 25 May, 2014, 10:40am

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Online activist and blogger Zhang Continue reading

US Group To Honor Two Jailed Chinese Dissidents

2014-05-23 

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An undated file photo of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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Two prominent jailed Chinese dissidents will be presented with an award by a U.S.-based non-government group to mark the 25th anniversary of the bloody Continue reading

Victims’ Families Held, Watched Ahead of Tiananmen Anniversary

2014-05-20

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Tiananmen Mothers founding member Ding Zilin in an undated photo.
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Chinese authorities have detained or placed under close surveillance the Continue reading

Tiananmen at 25: The Weekly Reading Round-Up

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maura Cunningham
As the June Fourth anniversary grows closer, security measures in China continue to tighten. The anniversary’s approach has also coincided with a spate of terrorist acts in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where explosive devices detonated in a market on Thursday morning killed 31 people and injured nearly 100 more. In Shanghai, a visit by Russian president Vladimir Continue reading

Eight charged after nationwide media crackdown in China

23 May 2014

International Federation of Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that eight people have been charged and several media outlets forced to shut down without cause after a crackdown organised by the Central Propaganda Department and government Continue reading