censorship

China debut of 'Django Unchained' suddenly...
A woman walks out from the Wanda cinema as movies including "Django Unchained" are displayed on a board introducing new movies in Beijing on April 11. (AP Photo)
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...
China magazine spikes Taiwan issue, fires staff
A woman takes a magazine at a newsstand in Beijing. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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:...
Communist Party emerges silent victor in China...
Hu Chunhua, regional party chief, at a session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on March 6. (Soichiro Yamamoto)
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...
@GUANGZHOU: Censored Chinese weekly staff goes to...
The Asahi Shimbun
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...
China newspaper editor in chief reduced to...
Tuo Zhen, director-general of the propaganda department of the Guangdong provincial Communist Party committee, attends a session of the provincial people's congress in Guangzhou, China, on Jan. 25. (Kentaro Koyama)
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,...
China paper's reporters honor own articles spiked...
The Southern Weekly newspaper, which became the target of censorship by senior propaganda officials, is sold in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Jan. 10. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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...
China paper's correction indirectly criticizes...
Corrections carried near the bottom of Page 2 in the Jan. 17 edition of the Southern Weekly newspaper (Kentaro Koyama)
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, ...
Censors hammered Southern Weekly ahead of National...
The Southern Weekly newspaper that became the target of censorship by senior propaganda officials is sold in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Jan. 10. (Kentaro Koyama)
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...
Xi questions propaganda chief’s handling of...
Fans wait for an autograph session by popular blogger Li Chengpeng, who has criticized authorities for censorship of the Southern Weekly, in Beijing on Jan. 13. At the session, a man punched Li in the face, while another individual handed him a knife wrapped in paper. (Nobuyoshi Sakajiri)
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...
Inside report: Chinese censors ordered rewrite...
Popular blogger Li Chengpeng, left, wears a mask in protest of censorship of the Southern Weekly at an autograph session in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Jan. 12. Li said he was told by authorities not to say anything. (Provided by a participant)
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...
Censorship row shows China's tight grip on media
In this photo taken and released by a protester, a local university student, a supporter of the Southern Weekly, raises a last week's edition of the newspaper during a protest outside the Southern Weekly headquarters in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Jan. 10.  (AP Photo)
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...
POINT OF VIEW: China needs one truthful newspaper,...
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...
EDITORIAL: China cannot keep suppressing calls for...
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...
Deal defuses standoff in Chinese censorship case
Supporters of Southern Weekly newspaper argue with police officers during a protest outside the headquarters of the newspaper in Guangzhou on Jan. 9. (AP Photo)
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...
Chinese authorities crack down on reporting about...
The Jan. 3 edition of the Southern Weekly carries an article on Page 2 with the headline: "Our dream has become much closer than before." (Atsushi Okudera)
BEIJING--Chinese authorities are clamping down on media reports related to protests that have arisen over government censorship of the Southern Weekly (Nanfang Zhoumo)...
Scuffles flare at liberal Chinese newspaper in...
People rally in front of the Southern Weekly office in Guangzhou, China, on Jan. 8. (The Asahi Shimbun)
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...
China newspaper dispute sparks petition, protest
A New Year edition of Southern Weekly, published on Thursday (3 January 2013), is for sale at a newsstand in Wuhan city, central Chinas Hubei province, 6 January 2013. (AP Photo)
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 ...
China's airing of 'V for Vendetta' stuns viewers
The activist group Anonymous wear the Guy Fawkes masks depicted in the movie "V for Vendetta." (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--Television audiences across China watched an anarchist antihero rebel against a totalitarian government and persuade the people to rule themselves. Soon the Internet...
Web snares Vietnam as bloggers spread protests over ...
In this Jan. 30 photo, Vietnamese youngsters play online games at Cyzone, one of the biggest game centers in Hanoi. Vietnam's graying Communist Party is all about control: It censors all media, squashes protests and imprisons those who dare to speak out against its one-party system. (AP Photo)
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...
Myanmar government abolishes direct media censorship
Newspapers are stacked at a news stand in Yangon in December 2011. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
YANGON -- Myanmar abolished direct media censorship on Aug. 20, the latest dramatic reform by its quasi-civilian regime, but journalists face other formidable restrictions...