Press groups criticize China curbs on foreign news
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International press groups denounced  new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a  step backwards ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when  thousands of journalists will descend on the country's capital.
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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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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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China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.
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BEIJING, Sept. 13 -- A new effort to punish anyone who leaks information from China's courts is part of a clampdown on the news media ahead of a leadership conference next year, experts said Wednesday.
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A Key Chinese official criticized a U.S. ban on its seafood as `'indiscriminate," and urged closer cooperation on food safety between the two trading partners, state media said Saturday.
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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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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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Chinese state media on Sunday blasted a  Pentagon report on Beijing&#39;s defense plans as distorted and  insulting, and said the gap between wealthy countries&#39; military  might and China&#39;s is growing, not shrinking.
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China is failing to live up to assurances that it will guarantee press freedom for the 2008 Beijing Games, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday, calling 2007 a "year of disillusionment".
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The Chinese government on Thursday defended its decision to raid a news conference called by South Korean legislators to discuss the status of North Korean refugees in China, accusing the visitors of inciting North Koreans to illegally enter the country and break into foreign embassies to seek asylum.
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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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China orders strict curbs on Pop Idol-style TV shows, the country's state media reports.
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China&#39;s state-run media has rejected calls from the Taiwanese president for peace talks with Beijing. The China Daily newspaper said Chen Shui-bian&#39;s idea was &quot;too insincere and vague to be treated seriously&quot;.
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China's new restrictions on foreign media raise concerns about its respect for trade rules as well as human rights and freedom of expression, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said.
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(InfoWorld) - Reporters Without Borders criticized the Chinese government for what the press advocacy group considers a move to end anonymous blogging in the communist country. The government, through the Internet Society of China, recently drafted a pact that was signed by at least 20 major blog service providers in the country, including Yahoo and Microsoft, the Paris-based watchdog group said Thursday. "The pact stops short [of] theÂ previous project of making it obligatory for bloggers to register, but it can be used to force service providers to censor content and identify bloggers," the group said in a statement. The pact, unveiled Wednesday, signals an "imminent" new wave of censorship and repression, the group said. Blogging services, which make it easy and simple for people to publish writings, photos, and videos on the Web, have become popular among individuals wanting to anonymously disseminate information that governments would rather keep confidential. The Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C., Microsoft and Yahoo didn't immediately reply to requests for comment. The pact "encourages" blog service providers to require that people provide their real names and contact information in order to let them post blogs, and then store the individuals' information, the group said. The pact also says blog service providers should "monitor and manage comments" as well as delete "illegal and bad information," according to Reporters Without Borders. In its statement, the group quotes Internet Society of China Secretary General Huang Chengqing as saying: "Blog service providers who allow the use of pseudonyms may be more attractive to bloggers, but they will be punished by the government if they fail to screen illegal information." China's Internet policies, such as the censorship of search engine results, have become a frequent target of criticism by organizations that advocate for human rights and press freedom. These organizations, likeÂ Amnesty International, have also criticized Internet companiesÂ including Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google for going along with Chinese government requirements that these groups charge violate human rights and press freedom. The companies' defense is that they must comply with the local laws of the countries in which they operate. Yahoo in particular has been blasted often in recent years for cooperating with the Chinese government and providing information that has led to the arrest of dissidents and journalists. In April, theÂ wife of an imprisoned Chinese dissident sued YahooÂ in the U.S. for divulging information about her husband's Internet activity, which allegedly led to his arrest and torture. The suit was filed by the World Organization for Human Rights USA on behalf of Yu Ling, the wife of Wang Xiaoning, arrested in September 2002 on charges including "incitement to subvert state power." This month, aÂ U.S. congressional committee said it plans to investigateÂ whether or not a Yahoo representative lied during testimony over the company's role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years. Â
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China's state media hit out at a US report on Beijing's military build-up, calling it misleading and insulting.