The crisis at the Southern Weekly escalated on Monday after hundreds of supporters gathered outside the headquarters of the leading Chinese newspaper and demanded that the authorities respect...
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8 Jan 2013
Global Times prints a bizarre accusation, propaganda authorities make a halfhearted attempt to rein in China's most outspoken newspapers, part of which for the moment centres around those ever...
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8 Jan 2013
China’s top propaganda organ has sent out an urgent memo stressing that the Communist Party still had “absolute control” of the press in China – and this would not change, sources said on Tuesday...
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8 Jan 2013
The area outside the Southern Weekly's headquarters in central Guangzhou turned into a people's square yesterday, with several hundred people staging a peaceful demonstration calling for an end to...
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8 Jan 2013
Hundreds of supporters of Guangzhou's outspoken Southern Weekly newspaper protested outside its headquarters yesterday in support of staff involved in a row with the provincial propaganda...
2:27PM
7 Jan 2013
Protesters gathered on Monday at the offices of a Guangdong newspaper at the centre of a censorship row, in a rare public demonstration on the mainland in support of media freedom.
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Now that they have deleted two of my Weibo retweets, I have to write something down.
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Online protests have grown in intensity over the past few days following a fumbled attempt to censor one of China's most respected newspapers, and are expected to manifest outside the media...
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Editorial staff at Southern Weekly decided to stage a strike after a dramatic turn of events last night that aggravated a potential major crisis facing the Communist Party's new leadership.
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The row over the propaganda authorities' interference in the Southern Weekly newspaper deepened yesterday, with former journalists and interns at the paper calling for the resignation of Guangdong...
2:17PM
Guangdong's propaganda chief, under fire for altering the New Year edition of the outspoken Southern Weekly, was once a crusading journalist known for his reports on the plight of the poor and...
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Dozens of journalists have demanded the resignation of Guangdong's propaganda chief, after he swapped one newspaper's new year's outlook with his own piece praising the “Chinese Dream”.
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