China : News
CHINA:New regulations pose threat to liberal press - Jul 22, 2010 - 11:40:33 PM
 Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about the impact on press freedom of new regulations that the Propaganda Department has imposed on China's provincial and metropolitan news media.

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Liu Shasha was tortured blindfold over night and threatened to be taken nude photo - Jul 19, 2010 - 4:11:12 PM
This incident manifested that China is already a stark fascist country.After Liu Dejun's likewise treatment exposed to the public,such atrocity falls on a girl,which vindicates that CPC (the communist Party of China)has no intention to withdraw from vicious violence and feels nothing shame about it.

China : Special
Interns and volunteers are needed by Boxun - Jul 13, 2010 - 9:18:11 PM

For those who learn Chinese and want to practice Chinese writing, please  consider this opportunity:

Job description:

1) Write short English news release based on Chinese articles/reports;

2) Write Chinese news release based on English reports (mostly not Boxun's English version, but from other media you choose)

Boxun editors will help on reviewing your Chinese writing.

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Twitters of Chinese version are inspected - Jul 13, 2010 - 9:12:42 PM

"Twitters" of Chinese version are being inspected one by one in China. The one under inspection is closed, users see a notice "Under System Maintenance".

Boxun's exclusive report says that Chinese government has realized the power of "Twitters", it will "teach" the "twitters" behave as the tongue of the party.

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CHINA:Photographer arrested in Chongqing, business reporter attacked in Beijing - Jun 28, 2010 - 12:56:46 AM
Reporters Without Borders calls on Bo Xilai, the head of the Communist Party in the southwestern city of Chongqing, to intercede on behalf of a Chongqing Morning Post reporter, believed to be photographer Qiu Jinyi, who was arrested after posting a comment on the Tianya online forum and was sentenced to a year of reeducation through work.

World : News
Paris hosts cyber-shelter for battered bloggers - Jun 28, 2010 - 12:52:34 AM

(AFP)  PARIS ¡ª Paris-based media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday launched a virtual "anti-censorship shelter" to protect bloggers around the world from repressive authorities.

The project won support from an editor of the Chinese news blog boxun.com, who said two of the site's contributors have been jailed in China for publishing material online criticising the authorities there.

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Bedridden Elder Crushed to Death By Local City Government - Jun 24, 2010 - 9:48:11 AM
Shandong Province, China-  On the morning of June 1, 2010, an 87-year old retired cadre's widow, Wang Sangmin, was killed at the hands of local government. The City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau of Qihe County forcefully relocated Wang's private residence, where she lived bedridden with paralysis. Four governmental employees wielding sledgehammers carried out the barbaric act, crushing Wang to death in her bed.

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LIU Dejun, civil rights activist, kidnapped by police and left in mountains - Jun 15, 2010 - 11:49:17 PM
In the mid-night of June 15, Liu Dejun, a civil rights activist, was kidnapped from his home in Beijing. At around 11 Pm, Liu Dejun told his friend online that someone knocked his door. One hour later, LIU told his friend on phone that the people outside continued to knock the door.

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As China justifies online censorship, the health of jailed netizens deteriorates - Jun 10, 2010 - 6:57:45 AM
China yesterday published a white paper on the Internet, repeating the need for online censorship in the name of ¡°respect for local laws¡± and ¡°maintaining stability¡±, while several netizens now in prison or recently released are in a critical state of health.

US : News
Chinese Students Tolling a Huge Banner to Commemorate June 4th Massacre - Jun 5, 2010 - 12:34:17 PM

A group of overseas Chinese students flew two planes on June 4th 2010 tolling a huge banner on the Hudson River to commemorate the democratic movement in 1989. The banner was on the stage for three hours moving back and forth between the Statue of Liberty and China¡¯s Consulate-General in New York. With special permission from Air Control Center, the minimum height of the banner was just 500 feet, allowing long range of visibility by pedestrians on the ground.