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Daily Archives: June 2, 2008
Dujiangyan Police Remove Reporter From Parents’ Meeting
Police forcibly removed a Christian Science Monitor correspondent and his Chinese assistant from covering a meeting in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, between local officials and angry bereaved parents of children who died in the Juyuan middle school. Several riot police, one regular police officer and a man in plain clothes pushed and shoved correspondent Peter Ford [...]
Tags: Sichuan
The Olympic Torch In An Italian Journalist’s Hands
By Francesco Liello Jingzhou, Hubei Province — Never in history has the Olympic flame ignited stronger controversy -and all of it caused by events that had very little to do with sport. First there was pro-Tibet activism, then the climbing of Everest and finally the earthquake. Several people thought it would make sense to stop [...]
