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Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:49 PM

RSF launches new on Chinese press freedom

Reporters Without Borders is maintaining a steady drumbeat on the press freedoms issues in China as the 2008 Olympics approach. Remember that Beijing promised to allow more press freedom as the Olympics near. To show their commitment to their
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:24 AM

IFEX review of World Press Freedom Day in Hong Kong and China.

CHINA BARS ATTENDEES FROM FREE EXPRESSION CONFERENCE   How telling it is that a noted editor and a Danish sculptor were denied entry to Hong Kong to take part in a free expression in China conference organised for World Press Freedom Day.  
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:32 PM

Self-Censorship in Hong Kong Rises Again on Tibet and Right to Demonstrate

Looks like self-censorship is alive and well in Hong Kong.   Here is an article from the South CHina Morning Post about how an article on Tibet was denied publication in Hong Kong by the Law Society.   The author of the Tibet article
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Monday, December 24, 2007 10:35 AM

China strikes out on texting

New technology has opened up many new avenues to counter repressive governments. With the growth in the use of mobile phones came more oppotunities for people to share information. The Chinese govenrment is facing the problem of being forced to allow
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:21 AM

NYT Researcher freed -- many more to go

I am sure we are all happy that Zhao Yan has been freed. of course we also all know that he should never have been arrested and jailed in the first place. Note that he was  arrested for revelaing state secrets, which in China can mean anything from
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007 2:57 PM

Journalists and bad job-hunting skills

I don't know if this is the case just in China or everywhere, but a great number of journalists I interview lately have remarkably poor job hunting skills.It seems that I'm spending this week - like most weeks -- up to my eyeballs in recruitment ads and
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