New China media curbs condemned
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Press freedom groups voice dismay at moves by China to increase restrictions on foreign news agencies.
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New rules imposed by the Chinese government indicates that authorities are not loosening their grip on bloggers, something they indicated they might do.
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A glance at the newspapers and glossy  magazines jostling for space on China's news stands shows how  much the media has changed since the Communist country embraced  market reforms more than 20 years ago.
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Pakistan's government has put curbs on the media and threatened operators with closure in the hope of stifling an opposition campaign for judicial independence and democracy, analysts and media workers said on Tuesday.
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China has imposed a moratorium on new foreign investment in film and TV production companies, a news report on Friday quoted a regulatory official as saying.
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Reporters Without Borders said in its annual report on press freedoms that conditions for the news media and for journalists had deteriorated in China.
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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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China's new rules on online video and  audio content banning violent, pornographic and fake material  are aimed at promoting the Internet's "healthy" development,  according to a government statement.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH     SHANGHAI, China  -- China plans ratings systems for online games, books and movies to protect children from violence and sexual content in the nation's latest effort to tighten controls on various media, reports said Friday.    The system for censoring online games will be introduced by the end of October and will come ahead of "any similar actions on books and movies," the state-run newspaper Shanghai Daily said, citing officials attending a conference in Shanghai...
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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&#39;s media regulators  have banned reality TV shows that feature plastic surgery or  sex-change operations, after some viewers complained they were  &quot;horrifying and sickening,&quot; local media reported Tuesday.
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China has announced new rules on religious groups aimed at ending discrimination on grounds of belief.
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New directives ban reports that 'undermine national unity' and set fines on outlets that use unauthorized material.
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TOKYO : Major newspapers were divided over Japan&#39;s new defence guidelines which end its decades-old ban on military exports and deem China and North Korea as potential threats.
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Beijing authorities extend broadcast restrictions on foreign-made cartoons
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China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos Â including those posted on video-sharing Web sites Â to sites run by state-controlled companies and require providers to report questionable content to the government.
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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.