Aug 28, 2006
Italian sports journalist Francesco Liello of La Gazetta dello Sport was detained in Anshan, Liaoning Province. He was trying to report on a “collective doping” scandal reported earlier by domestic Chinese media. He was unable to find the new headmaster,...
Aug 16, 2006
Malaysian journalist Leu Siew Ying, who works for the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, was detained by police in Panyu district, Guangzhou, for eight hours while she was attempting to cover the one-year anniversary of disturbances in Taishi village. Her...
Jul 16, 2006
American journalist Jim Yardley, who works for The New York Times, visited a village in Inner Mongolia to ask residents about a recent pollution spill. Local factories and government officials had deliberately dumped chemical waste into the village rather than risk a...
Mar 30, 2005
The word from Premier Wen Jiabao at the opening of this year’s National People’s Congress was that China should open up even further to the outside world. But when it comes to managing the news media, old habits die hard. The NPC coincided with the BBC’s special...
Feb 22, 2005
The FCCC and a Japanese journalists group in Beijing have both sent letters of complaint to the Foreign Ministry over the rough handling of reporters by security agents trying to break up a news conference at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in January. About 30...
Feb 1, 2005
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, does it make a sound? Apparently that’s what the leadership was testing with the death of Zhao Ziyang – to the extent that it could. Handling the passing of the Communist Party chief who wept before students in Tiananmen...
