Media Group Says French Equipment Jams Foreign Radio in China
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An international media rights group has accused a French company of selling equipment to China used by the government to jam foreign radio broadcasts.
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"With taxpayers' money, I am not prepared to broadcast a channel that does not speak French"  President Sarkozy said a French channel can only speak French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said his country will stop broadcasting its English- language 24-hour news channel, France 24. via BBC
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- China's media and Internet users erupted in criticism Tuesday against some small-town officials and police officers who traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest a magazine reporter who wrote critically about their local Communist Party leader.
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Foreign entertainment channels have been pulled from the air in Jammu and Kashmir, India, following threats from militant groups.
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SHANGHAI, China - Banned from honking their horns, drivers in China's commercial hub of Shanghai are switching to music or voice recordings to make themselves heard, a local newspaper reported Wednesday.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy is at  odds with his foreign minister over whether the country's  international television news channel should ditch English and  Arabic, and broadcast only in French.
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France's highest administrative body on Monday ordered the TV station of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group off French airwaves within 48 hours for broadcasting hateful content in some shows and posing risks to public order.
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Back home on a farm in Uzbekistan, Navbahor Imamova's mother and siblings crowd around their cranky, Soviet-made radio and tune in daily to Voice of America broadcasts in Uzbek. Though frequently scrambled by Chinese martial music, the VOA journalist said, the broadcast is her family's chief source...
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At a time when China's government has granted the foreign media greater freedom, it is tightening controls on Chinese who write about politically sensitive or embarrassing topics, human rights activists and journalists say.
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France has criticized unofficial negotiators for complicating release efforts for two French hostages held in Iraq, the BBC reported Saturday.
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Chinese state media on Sunday blasted a Pentagon report on Beijing's defense plans as misleading and insulting, and said China had to pursue military modernization to avoid falling further behind the United States.
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday blasted China's efforts to further control the distribution of news and financial information by foreign news agencies, saying revised regulations showed that the government was tightening censorship.
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Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 15 December  Reporters Without Borders has firmly condemned the forcible closure of privately-owned Radio Warsan in the western city of Baidoa.
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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 7 September  Citizens' Radio will resume broadcasting in defiance of the law, chief organizer Tsang Kin-shing vowed yesterday, just a week after police took most of its equipment in a raid.
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China announced rules on Sunday   requiring foreign media to seek approval from its state news   agency to distribute news, pictures and graphics domestically,   and warned against reports that "endanger national security."
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China, which jails more journalists than any other nation, is challenging the view that information on the Internet is impossible to control, and the implications for press freedom could be far-reaching, a New York-based rights group said.
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PARIS : French companies and farmers have reeled in deals reportedly worth up to five billion euros (dollars) in China during a state visit to the country by President Jacques Chirac, but executives were said to be disappointed that bigger business was