Banned Chinese director to defy orders
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Chinese director Lou Ye said Wednesday he plans to defy a government order banning him from making films for five years, a ruling prompted by his decision to screen a movie at the Cannes Film Festival before it cleared censors in China.
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A U.S.-based press freedom watchdog is to honor a Chinese reporter who spent years behind bars after exposing a fraudulent irrigation project, the group said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Director Lou Ye is reportedly banned from film-making for submitting a film to Cannes without China's approval.
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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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Chinese director Lou Ye has been banned from making movies in his home country for five years because his film "Summer Palace" was screened at Cannes in May without government approval, state media said Monday.
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Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu today defied his country - s ban on him talking to foreigners to address a British film festival.
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Chinese Communist Party chief Hu Jintao called for parliament to take a stronger watchdog role on the eve of a key leadership meeting but ruled out Western-style democracy
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A top Chinese official yesterday defended his government&#39;s decision to bar a Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker from entering the mainland, saying customs authorities acted legally.
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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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HONG KONG Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive of Hong Kong, on Thursday ruled out trying to pass internal security legislation any time soon, a strong sign that his backers in Beijing have decided to take a conciliatory stance here after legislative
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China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Wuhan, 31 January: A three-month fishing ban on the Yangtze River [Chiang Jiang] imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture will take effect this Thursday [1 February].
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In an obvious effort to keep its citizens from seeing content that it hasn't already pre-approved, the Chinese government is about to block video sites it doesn't control.
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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 to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
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British Council offices will defy a Russian order for them to close, the UK embassy says.
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A Communist Party whistle-blower who created a national sensation in China by publicly accusing his superiors of tolerating official corruption has been condemned for breaking party rules and ordered to "do a complete self-examination," authorities announced.