Southern Weekly
March 24, 2013
Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, was the site of one of the world's largest hacker gatherings in January.
March 07, 2013
BEIJING--An anti-censorship row at a Chinese weekly newspaper has subsided with authorities clamming shut, with the Communist Party strengthening control, and with the central...
February 21, 2013
In an incident that garnered headlines around the world, a special New Year's edition of the influential Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly(Nanfang Zhoumo) was completely...
February 10, 2013
On the afternoon of Jan. 17, more than 100 reporters and other employees of the Southern Weekly came out of the building in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, which houses the...
January 26, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China—A newspaper editor in chief who came under fire for a recent censorship incident retained his title but has seen his editorial powers stripped away,...
January 19, 2013
ZHAOQING, China--At a gathering here on Jan. 18, senior officials and reporters from the Southern Weekly honored five of the newspaper's articles that were never published due...
January 18, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--The Southern Weekly newspaper issued a correction announcement indirectly blaming the Chinese government for errors in the paper's special New Year's edition, ...
January 15, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--The Southern Weekly newspaper’s problems started back in May, when an official named Tuo Zhen was appointed chief of the propaganda department of the...
January 15, 2013
BEIJING--A Chinese blogger critical of government censorship said he will continue speaking his mind despite being punched in the head and having a knife tossed at him during a ...
January 14, 2013
BEIJING--In an apparent attempt to quell the uproar over censorship, Chinese leader Xi Jinping expressed displeasure toward the media control division and said he would not...
January 13, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--Reporters for the Southern Weekly newspaper lashed out against censorship after authorities ordered a last-minute rewrite of a New Year edition on top of...
January 12, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--China's new Communist Party leaders want to appear more open, but they're not about to give up control of the media. That's the lesson of a dustup involving...
January 10, 2013
BEIJING--A Beijing daily with past ties to the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo), the newspaper at the center of a recent censorship incident, also tried to resist government...
January 10, 2013
Protesters in China lashed out after a Communist Party bureaucrat spiked an article in the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo) weekly newspaper and ordered it rewritten--and...
January 10, 2013
In China, where the Communist Party maintains an outright monopoly of power, a newspaper’s recent fight with the authorities over censorship has set off a growing chorus of...
January 10, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--A deal to keep propaganda officials from rewriting articles before they appear in an influential weekly newspaper does not mean an end to censorship in...
January 09, 2013
Protesters in China lashed out after a Communist Party bureaucrat spiked an article in the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo) weekly newspaper and ordered it rewritten--and...
January 09, 2013
BEIJING--Chinese authorities are clamping down on media reports related to protests that have arisen over government censorship of the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo)...
January 09, 2013
You might have missed it. I almost did. On Jan. 5, The Asahi Shimbun carried a small story headlined "Poet Kim Chi-ha acquitted after 39 years" in its foreign news section.
January 08, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--Chinese police broke up scuffles outside the gates of a prominent newspaper in southern Guangzhou on Jan. 8, as Communist Party authorities showed signs of a...