Tiananmen film gets director 5-year ban
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China has banned acclaimed  director Lou Ye from making movies for five years as punishment  for sending his latest film "Summer Palace," an erotic love  story set against the backdrop of the bloody crackdown in  Tiananmen Square, to the Cannes Film Festival without  government approval, official media reported Monday.
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Hyundai Motor Group  chief Chung Mong-koo was on Thursday handed a 3-year sentence suspended for 5 years by a South Korean appeals court, which upheld a fraud conviction by a lower court earlier this year.
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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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&quot;Lust, Caution,&quot; a sexually explicit  spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice  Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese  children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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President Hu Jintao won a second five-year term as China's Communist Party chief Monday, heading a new leadership lineup that features potential successors yet could invite a divisive battle to succeed him.
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A 28-year-old man who ran China's most popular pornographic website community with up to 600,000 members has been jailed for life.
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Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's decision to quit the Beijing Olympics over the Darfur crisis is drawing condemnation by China's state-controlled media
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HONG KONG -- For decades, Chinese filmmakers haven't made a major feature film about one of the biggest wartime atrocities suffered by their country: the Nanjing massacre of 1937. Now  two directors are preparing to make movies set against the Japanese military's brutal killings in the former...
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Punishes 20,000 Rural Officials for Misconducts" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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China has fired or otherwise punished five officials for failing to prevent pollution blamed for a massive algae bloom in one of the country's biggest lakes, a newspaper reported Monday.
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Chinese company has signed a five-year deal for customer services and support.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his role in the bribery scandal surrounding the United Nation's oil-for-food program for Iraq a decade ago.
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China has blocked a Hollywood movie reportedly starring John Cusack and Gong Li from being shot in the country because of concerns about the script, a film official said Wednesday.
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With the death of Zhao Ziyang on Monday, China has lost one of the few senior political voices who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre as well as its most famous political prisoner.
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HUANGHUACHENG, China  - Authors generally welcome  publicity, but the Chinese winner of a non-government PEN award  has never given an interview. That may be because her book  taking a hard look at a past purge of intellectuals is banned.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while  working for the New York Times was released on Saturday, ending  a controversial prison term that highlighted the country&#39;s  tough media controls.