China: Interview with released journalist Ching Cheong

From RFA Mandarin reporter Xin Yu:
Q: Mr. Ching, we learned that after you returned to Hong Kong, you are still working as a journalist for the Strait Times of Singapore. What do you feel about it?
A: I feel happy and am in high mood because I have been a journalist for my whole life.  Now [...]

Newsdesk: China suspends Baixing editor

Xu Feng, editor of the “restructured” Baixing (Commoners) magazine, said on Wednesday during his interview with Mandarin reporter Ding Xiao –
DX: I heard that you were fired?
Xu Feng: Not “fired.” Technically speaking, my job was “forcibly suspended.”
DX: Since when?
Xu: Around the 13th. The [...]

Uyghurs: On the trail of the Urumqi shooting story

Xinhua news agency tells us that there was a shootout with Uyghur ‘terrorists’ in the regional capital, Urumqi, in which two ‘terrorists’ were killed. (Image: The Opposite End of China)
Chinese police kill two terorists, arrest 15 others
URUMQI, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) — Chinese police destroyed a terrorist gang last month in Urumqi, capital of northwest [...]

Wife of Shandong activist prevented from visiting, German TV crew attacked

Jan 24, Yinan county, Shandong. From RFA’s Mandarin service (ZH):
Yuan Weijing and her two-year-old daughter were pulled back home suddenly while they were on their way to nearby Linyi municipal jail to visit blind family planning activist Chen Guangcheng. Four journalists from a German television station were waiting for her not far from the family’s [...]

China: New regs seek to control video-sharing sites

From RFA’s Mandarin service:把自己拍摄的生活录像，或者自己喜欢的电影电视节目传到网上，与更多的人分享，个人的生活空间随着网络的延伸而扩大。总部在广州的我乐网就是提供这种网络视频节目服务的公司。过去2年多来，这家网站播放过5000多万个视频作品，注册用户达2500多万。该网站工作人员表示，他们是中国最大视频分享娱乐网站之一：
It could soon be much more difficult for Chinese netizens to post video to ordinary Web sites or to the Chinese equivalent of YouTube under a set of new rules aimed at imposing strict controls on online video. If you take a look at this recent video of clashes between riot police [...]

China: Three reporters missing in Guangdong land protest

From RFA’s Mandarin service: In Heping county, Guangdong province, three reporters whose video equipment carried the China Central Television (CCTV) logo are missing after they interviewed local villagers about how tens of thousands of mu of farmland had been expropriated for commercial use.
On December 26, after the three wrapped up their interviews with the villagers, [...]

Cyber-dissident Zhang Jianhong’s condition worsening

Paris-based Reporters Without Borders is calling on the Chinese authorities to release on humanitarian grounds of cyber-dissident Zhang Jianhong, 49, also known under the pen-name Li Hong. He’s been hospitalized for two months in Zhejiang provincial jail in southeastern China and suffers from partial paralysis. “He has been in Zhejiang prison hospital for almost two [...]

China: Legal Day protest ends in clashes

UPDATE:  Thousands of petitioners who gathered outside China’s state television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing were dispersed by police. The photo–given to RFA by a ‘volunteer’–shows this protest.
More in Chinese: 普法日数千访民央视请愿　警察暴力阻截并阻挠外媒采访 
Just over 100 petitioners gathered in the trees lining a Beijing crossroads Monday to “speak about injustice”. About a dozen foreign journalists turned up to cover [...]

CNBloggerCon: What are Chinese bloggers saying?

From John Kennedy at the Chinese Blogger Con 2007 in Beijing:
Mainland Chinese blogger Guo Daxia
He’s talking about the seperation between body and spirit
If the body is dead but the spirit lives, what would that look like
(I think he’s saying that media (body) is dead, but blogs are our spirit!)
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He’s had several blogs shut down, [...]