China locks away pirate movie mogul
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China sentenced a man to life in jail  on Thursday for running what state media called the country's  biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring.
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DVD copies of the movie âRambo,â starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone, below, are much in demand in Myanmar but very had to find, Agence France-Presse reported. That is because the police there have banned the film, in which Mr. Stallone portrays a Vietnam War veteran battling soldiers of the military junta that rules the country. âPolice have warned me I could go to jail for up to seven years if I sell the latest Rambo film,â said a DVD vendor who declined to be identified. Another seller said that at least 20 customers asked for it every day. One democracy advocate, who declined to say how he obtained a copy, said, âI watched the movie at home with my family and gave it to my friends because I wanted them to see it.â.
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The wife of a jailed Chinese rights activist is stopped from leaving the country to collect an award, friends say.
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China, where pirated DVDs of the latest Hollywood blockbusters can be bought for a dollar on street corners, is calling for a crackdown on pirated copies of "Shrek 2."
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China's battle against intellectual  property rights piracy will take "generations," a senior  official said on Thursday, but added the main victims were  Chinese and other countries should stop politicizing the issue.
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Germany has barred the makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler from filming at German military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
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China has censored part of the latest instalment of hit Hollywood movie &quot;Pirates of the Caribbean&quot; for &quot;vilifying and defacing the Chinese&quot;, the official Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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China has banned director Lou Ye from   making movies for the next five years after he submitted   "Summer Palace" to the Cannes Film Festival without official   approval, state media reported on Monday.
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The assets of an NI businessmen allegedly involved in a property scam in Turkey are frozen.
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China on Friday defended a decision last week to stop the wife of a blind, jailed activist going to the Philippines to pick up an award on his behalf, saying she was suspected of "criminal activities".
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have detained a prominent, US-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said yesterday.
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Chinese police have shut down a Web  site selling real-time porn and arrested 33 people, state media  said on Wednesday, part of a campaign which led to the  shut-down of 44,000 Web sites and arrest of 868 people last  year.
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The German government bans makers of Tom Cruise's latest movie from filming because the star is a Scientologist.
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By Joe McDonald Associated Press  BEIJING -- China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by U.S. authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. Customs agency said Friday.
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China has pulled Li Yuâs âLost in Beijing,â a movie whose sexually explicit scenes were already censored, from theaters and banned its producer from the film business for two years, The Associated Press reported. The ruling against âLost in Beijingâ accused the filmmakers of publishing unapproved pornographic scenes from the movie on the Internet and on DVDs, the official China News Service Web site reported. The filmâs producer, Fang Li, said he believed that Chinese officials faced political pressure to act amid the rapid spread of uncensored versions of âLost in Beijingâ and another sexually explicit film, Ang Leeâs âLust, Caution,â on the Internet and in pirated DVDs.
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"Miami Vice," which includes steamy love scenes between Chinese actress Gong Li and Colin Farrell, has cleared censors in China, a Beijing newspaper reported.
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China has formally arrested a New York  Times researcher detained last month for passing state secrets  to foreigners, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of  death, his lawyer said on Thursday.