Authors of banned book on abuse of Chinese peasants get European journalism prize
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The authors of a banned book that accuses Chinese communist officials of mistreating peasants have been awarded a 50,000 euro (US$61,500) journalism prize by a Germany-based group.
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A Chinese research assistant for The Times served three years in prison on a conviction that sparked outrage.
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In France, Germany and Austria, papers deliberate their countries' historical responsibility towards peoples seen as wronged by them.
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Tuesday's European papers examine the Madrid bombings inquiry, the crisis in Ukraine and alleged abuses in the Germany army.
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Europeâs leaders were urged today to continue a ban on arms sales to China in protest against torture and human rights abuses. The call came on the eve of an
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By ALEXA OLESEN  BEIJING - 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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Europe's press grapples with the enormity of the Holocaust on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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Foreign journalists are facing official interference while reporting in China, despite Olympic-related rules aimed at allowing greater press freedoms, an international media group said Tuesday.
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BEIJING, Jan. 8 -- Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.
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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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Business: 13 January 2005, Thursday. Sofia News Agency publisher Maxim Behar was announced winner of the annual prize for his contribution to the development of Bulgarian business communications.
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Europe's papers condemn President Chirac's efforts to drum up Chinese business with France
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China&#39;s parliament passed a law Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the spread of AIDS (news - web sites) and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases, state media said.
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BEIJING -- China is relaxing decades-old restrictions on foreign reporters, announcing new regulations Friday that will give foreign media greater freedom to travel and report in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Even as the rules were made public, however, a Chinese court affirmed a prison...
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Wei Wenhua was a model communist and is now a bloggers' hero. He was beaten to death by Chinese city inspectors as he snapped photos of them beating villagers. The death has sparked outrage. "City inspectors are worse than the mafia," one blogger writes.
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Chinese courts on Friday ruled against a blind activist and a researcher for The New York Times in two cases that have attracted international attention as examples of government retribution against dissent.
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A Chinese journalist jailed for nearly eight years after exposing government corruption said after being released early for good behavior that he should never have been sent to prison.