12 Oct 2012

Mo Yan's Nobel Prize for literature was hailed by the public as a sign that contemporary Chinese literature has finally won global recognition, even as several cultural critics questioned the...

28 Nov 2011

After more than 30 years of market reform on the mainland, it may finally be the media's turn to embrace capitalism, whether they want to or not.

8 Nov 2007

An international press freedom group has called on Beijing to stop violating the rights of reporters and respect freedom of speech on the eve of the mainland's 'Journalists' Day' today.

19 Feb 2006

The press is supposed to report news, not make it. But in the course of performing their role of facilitating a free flow of information and ideas, newspapers can become the news. Examples abound...

1 May 2005

A newspaper editor was yesterday sentenced by a court in Hunan province to 10 years in prison on charges of leaking state secrets to overseas media.

A petition calling on the UN to intervene in China's human rights issues and urging the immediate release of several dissidents has been submitted by a group of 106 mainland political activists....

Officials ban 60 unregistered foreign publications and promise they will track down other offenders


Mainland authorities are cracking down on fly-by-night magazines registered abroad...

The BBC expects a loosening of online censorship in China after the mainland's entry to the World Trade Organisation.

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