About 100 pop songs were ordered pulled from download websites not, according to mainland culture authorities, because of censorship but because the music did not go through 'official approval...
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14 Mar 2008
One of the mainland's official mouthpieces, Xinhua, demonstrated its mastery of the art of denial yesterday by using a personal blog to dismiss Hong Kong reports that the culture ministry's party...
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A mega ministry of culture had failed to materialise in this round of government restructuring because balancing the...
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It will be curtains for mainland artists, singers and dancers if they fail to obtain a government-issued performance licence as part of a new push to clean up the industry.
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Do you know the difference between 'comply' and 'compile'?
Comply (v) - to conform or to obey
If you comply with a request, order, or set of rules, you do what you are...
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Updated at 4.05pm:
China will stop issuing new licences to video arcades and close all wholesale music and video markets by December 31, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
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The authorities are to provide more recreational and social activities for elderly people after the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect which attracted many senior citizens.
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