Beijing backs gag order following uproar in Britain
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Beijing Olympic organisers said Monday they backed a ban on political protests by athletes attending this year's Games, amid uproar over an effort to silence British athletes.
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The British Olympic Association has defended an athletes' contract curbing political activity at the Beijing games.
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British Olympic hopeful refuses to maintain 'polite silence' in face of China's human rights record
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British Olympic Association chief Craig Reedie has signed a &quot;memorandum of understanding&quot; with China&#39;s Olympic boss Yuan Weimin.
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China has banned British computer game âFootball Manager 2005,â saying it violated Chinese law by referring to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other regions claimed by China as separate countries.
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Senior government officials rallied Sunday to support a High Court ruling forbidding the BBC, Britain's public service broadcaster, from transmitting news about accusations of campaign finance improprieties ...Comment
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By Bruce Einhorn and Ben Elgin  Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft endured a wave of public disapproval earlier this year over their compliance with Chinese censorship of their websites.
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Britain voiced relief Tuesday after the release of five members of a British embassy group held for nearly two weeks by a rebel group in a remote part of Ethiopia.
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China will extend its prime-time ban on foreign cartoons by an hour and demand that local television stations seek approval from censors before broadcasting them, the country's media watchdog said in a circular.
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China is debating whether to relax control of the Internet during the Olympics, allowing access to banned websites such as the BBC, a spokeswoman for the organising committee said Tuesday.
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin demanded answers from China, after Beijing sparked a human rights row by revoking the visas of two Toronto-based Chinese reporters due to cover his visit to Asia.
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China on Sunday announced rules   requiring foreign media to seek approval from the state news   agency Xinhua to distribute news, pictures and graphics   domestically.
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China rejected allegations from Germany that it was behind Internet espionage attacks on German companies and its government, saying on Tuesday it opposed such accusations.
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BEIJING, Feb. 14 -- Chinese officials defended the country's human rights record regarding the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday in the first official reaction to Steven Spielberg's abrupt resignation as an artistic adviser to the Beijing Olympic Games.
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The British government on Monday took the unusual step of denying it had leaked details relating to a police corruption probe that has seen gagging orders sought or threatened against the media.
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Britain&#39;s newspapers on Tuesday backed the government&#39;s decision to expel four Russian diplomats over Moscow&#39;s refusal to extradite a key suspect in the murder of a former Russian spy, but warned that a Cold War-like impasse was looking more likely.
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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...