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Monthly Archives: April 2008
100 Days Before Olympics, Reporting Conditions Deteriorate
One hundred days before the Olympics, death threats against foreign correspondents and official statements demonizing Western media risk creating a hostile environment for foreign journalists based in China and for tens of thousands of additional media planning to cover the Games, says the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC). At least ten foreign correspondents in [...]
Ningxia Government Blocks Documentary Producers
The foreign affairs office in Ningxia blocked a documentary producer from researching locations for a project on climate change, even though the producer had earlier obtained permission to film in the area. The documentary crew was met in Yinchuan, Ningxia on arrival at the airport and ordered to return to Beijing, by authorities “who said [...]
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Sichuan Policy Follow Reporters In Tibetan Area
Police stopped a reporter and photographer from Kyodo News at a checkpoint as they tried to enter the Tibetan-inhabited city of Ganzi in western Sichuan Province. Three policemen insisted they escort the reporter and photographer for their own safety, and followed them everywhere they went — at times in a separate car, at times on [...]
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