Cage Homes : an art exhibit on Hong Kong's most expensive streets

5 Jun 2013

Nanjing authorities are considering whether to “open up” the Great Firewall to Facebook and Twitter, ahead of the 2013 Asian Youth Games in August.

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Why China needs its critics

3 Jun 2013

People's trust in government erodes when there is no genuine rule of law to limit the power and scope of the ruling elite. The latest breach of trust in China is the discovery that more than 40...

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Django...finally unchained in mainland China, but flops on opening day

14 May 2013

A toned-down version of the film, with less violence and gore, was approved by censors in March, but it was abruptly axed before its April 10 opening day due to “technical reasons”.

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Film: Mainlanders don't take a shine to 'Iron Man 3' bonus feature

14 May 2013

Compared with recent Hollywood blockbusters such as Django Unchained and Cloud Atlas, which did not escape the snips of Chinese censors, Iron Man 3 is much luckier.

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Long struggle to publish Fang Lizhi's autobiography

5 May 2013

It was an overdue autobiography, Li Shuxian, wife of Fang Lizhi and the book's collator, write in the preface. Indeed, most of it was written before the couple left Beijing more than 20 years ago...

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'Django Unchained' gets May China release after 'issues' resolved

27 Apr 2013

Quentin Tarantino’s violent slavery revenge fantasy “Django Unchained” will be released in China in May, its US distributors said on Friday, and a Hollywood source said additional cuts had been...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

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Howard Winn

Way to go

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No limit to the length and breadth of phishing attacks on dissident writers

In the winter of 2009 to 2010, a mainland writer friend whose pen name is Zhao Dagong was arrested and detained by the security police. Zhao is vice-president and secretary of the Independent...

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Tarantino tones down violence in Django Unchained for China release

The director-scriptwriter will be toning down the violence and gore for mainland Chinese theatres, according to the film’s mainland distributors.

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Letters to the Editor, April 4, 2013

Item 86 in the chief executive's policy address dealt with the development of the western tip of the former Kai Tak runway. It said this site in the Kai Tak Development Area had "excellent...

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'How much longer for us?' ask Chinese after Myanmar ends media censorship

Netizens - anxious about media censorship in China - experienced both envy and excitement on Tuesday, a day after privately-owned daily newspapers hit Myanmar’s streets for the first time in...

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Time for Beijing to stop its media propaganda

The "transcript" of an interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser of US president Jimmy Carter, was published in the People's Daily's English-language online edition. I put...

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MEDIA

'Ridiculous' rape scene 'may be cut' from anti-Japanese war drama

The scene from the mainland TV series Jianzai Xianshang, or “Ready to Fly” in English, received a flood of online complaints ahead of its debut on Sichuan, Guizhou and Henan primetime television....

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