When controversy arises on the mainland, most of us are instinctive in our reaction. We are conditioned to think in particularly ominous tones and believe there is a puppet master in Beijing who...
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- Mar 3, 2013
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29 Aug 2012
Five editors with the Nanjing-based Oriental Guardian have been suspended over the paper's critical coverage last week of the Liu Xiang injury cover-up, a rights group and local media sources said...
27 Aug 2012
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25 Aug 2012
China's gold medallists from the London Olympics arrived in Hong Kong yesterday to a politically charged reception as the local media grilled them about national education and reports that hurdler...
24 Aug 2012
State television bosses on the mainland knew sporting icon Liu Xiang was seriously injured at the London Olympics, but were prevented from saying so by a government gagging order.
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Liu Xiang told his mother he would return to the sport he loves after undergoing surgery on his ruptured achilles tendon - but she is more interested in him finding a girlfriend.
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