censorship

April 12, 2013
SHANGHAI--The Chinese debut of Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film "Django Unchained," a violent Western slave revenge tale, was suddenly cancelled on April 11 for...

March 23, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--The publisher of a Chinese monthly history magazine spiked an entire issue shortly before it went to print because authorities were unhappy with its focus:...

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 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 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
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
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 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...

January 07, 2013
BEIJING--A dispute over censorship at a Chinese newspaper known for edgy reporting evolved on Jan. 7 into a political challenge for China's new leadership as prominent scholars ...

December 22, 2012
BEIJING--Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet...

August 21, 2012
HANOI -- Farmer Le Dung and his fellow villagers stockpiled rocks and petrol bombs to battle police trying to take over their land for a luxury property development near...

August 20, 2012
YANGON -- Myanmar abolished direct media censorship on Aug. 20, the latest dramatic reform by its quasi-civilian regime, but journalists face other formidable restrictions...