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CHINA:GOVERNMENT LAUNCHES CRACKDOWN ON FAKE NEWS STORIES AFTER BEIJING TV REPORTER'S ARREST - Jul 26, 2007 - 10:19:46 AM

The government press announced yesterday that the three institutions that have the job of controlling the media - the Communist Party's Propaganda Department, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the General Administration of Press and Publications - had issued a statement threatening journalists and news media with severe sanctions for fabricating reports.

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Chinese reporter accused of fabricating story held on unclear charges - Jul 23, 2007 - 11:28:22 PM

Police arrested Beijing TV reporter Zi Beijia last week and are holding him in criminal custody following accusations that he faked a report on contaminated steamed buns, according to state news reports.

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More than 100 drown in a shopping center - Jul 21, 2007 - 9:30:34 AM
As many as 200 drown in a mall in JiNan, but officially reported 34 dead.

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CYBER POLICE SHUT DOWN 'SUSPECT' LITERARY WEBSITE, BLOCK ACCESS TO ANOTHER - Jul 16, 2007 - 10:35:59 PM

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the decision of the Shanghai Information Bureau to shut down a literary forum run by poet Lu Yang. This came after the Chinese government blocked access to Israeli literary website shvoong.com for its 20,000 Chinese users at the start of July.

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CHINA:Unprecedented purge at newspaper that "covered what the others did not dare report" - Jul 13, 2007 - 9:29:32 AM

Reporters Without Borders today condemned a purge of staff last week at Minzhu yu Fazhi Shibao (Democracy and Legal Times), a weekly specialising in legal news that is considered to be one of China's ten most influential newspapers.