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Chinese official announces political education for journalists - Mar 12, 2010 - 8:13:25 AM
New York, March 11, 2010¡ªA state official responsible for media regulation said Wednesday the government should require Chinese journalists to obtain official training to report the news, according to local and international news reports. Domestic journalists already need government-issued identity cards to work in China. 

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CHINA:Censorship and threats after newspapers publish joint editorial about hukou - Mar 10, 2010 - 2:03:05 AM
Reporters Without Borders urges the Propaganda Department to lift the censorship imposed on a joint editorial in 13 Chinese daily newspapers calling for the elimination of the internal passport system known as the "hukou." The press freedom organisation has learned that journalists working for news media that published the editorial have been threatened with punishment.

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Demolition in Wuhan caused fatal incident - Mar 8, 2010 - 11:50:20 AM

A demolition activity carried in Hu Bei Wuhan on March 3 has caused one dead.

Wang Cui Yun, a 70 years old woman fell into a ditch due to assault of a on-site constructor when she intended to stop the demolition. She was then buried alive as the ditch was being filled.

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Heavy jail sentences for activists who wrote about plight of Sichuan earthquake victims - Feb 10, 2010 - 6:54:44 AM
Reporters Without Borders condemns the long jail sentences that judges in Chengdu (in the southwestern province of Sichuan) have imposed on two human rights activists and netizens in the past 48 hours. A three-year sentence was upheld for Huang Qi yesterday while Tan Zuoren was given a five-year sentence at a hearing today during which police arrested and manhandled nine Hong Kong journalists.

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In Letter, Writer Liao Yiwu Seeks Help from Angela Merkel - Feb 9, 2010 - 12:59:00 AM
After being denied permission by Chinese authorities to attend an upcoming literary festival in Cologne, writer Liao Yiwu (廖亦武) has written a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel seeking intervention. Liao is the author of The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up and other books. He has been closely monitored by the Chinese government for many years and has been repeatedly denied permission to leave China. In fall 2009, Liao made headlines around the world when the Chinese government prohibited him from attending a symposium in Berlin, which was part of the Frankfurt Book Fair.