Censorship

In a border town, a newspaper forced to be silent

2013-05-18 22:11:00

LAREDO, Texas -- A recent wave of kidnappings in Nuevo Laredo was prominently featured in a recent Sunday edition of El Ma�ana, one of the largest and most long-standing Spanish-language newspapers on the border. But the story carried no byline, and...

In China, let a thousand blogs bloom

2013-04-30 00:00:00

China employs an army of censors. As many as 50,000 well-trained monitors police the Internet, and 12 government departments are empowered to search and seize information and shut down users and sites. They work fast: A recent study conducted by two...

Thatcher opponents push 'The Witch' up the charts

2013-04-12 12:11:00

LONDON -- The British Broadcasting Corp. faced a dilemma Friday: Would it play "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" when everyone knows the song has become a biting reference to the late Margaret Thatcher? The network's solution: turn the song into a sound...

Hong Kong film industry changes focus to mainland

2013-04-06 10:00:00

HONG KONG — When Mabel Cheung, one of this city's leading directors, shot her historical-political drama "The Soong Sisters" in China in the mid-1990s, the nature of the exchange for the co-production was simple: Beijing provided inexpensive...

The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China

2013-02-22 05:00:00

BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...

In China, press censorship protests continue

2013-01-09 15:16:00

GUANGZHOU, China — Like wedding guests separated across the aisle, the protesters assembled on either side of a gated driveway at the headquarters of the embattled Southern Weekly newspaper. To the right, several dozen supporters of the newspaper...

Is Mo Yan courageous, or is he a patsy?

2012-12-17 13:40:00

Salman Rushdie thinks Mo Yan is a patsy of China’s Communist government. I respect Rushdie's work, and his own courage as a defender of artistic freedom. But I'm not sure he's right about Mo Yan. Mo accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature this...

Global treaty becomes showdown over future of Internet

2012-12-14 18:01:00

Sharp divisions over the future of the Internet were laid bare Friday as the United States and many of its allies spurned a United Nations telecommunications treaty over fears of government meddling with the Web. Getting involved with the Internet would...

What a bummer: Nobel laureate Mo Yan defends censorship

2012-12-06 14:24:00

Chinese author Mo Yan was announced in October as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature; he's in Sweden now and will be presented with the award Monday. It was at a news conference in Stockholm that Mo made his disappointing statements in support...

Myanmar stops censoring articles before they go to print

2012-08-20 12:13:28

Jordan Web 'blackout' protest targets alleged censorship

2012-08-29 13:12:35

Reel China: A crash course in different storytelling traditions

2012-09-22 08:00:00

BEIJING — Every movie project involves a certain amount of negotiation, but finding middle ground proved no easy matter when writer-director Daniel Hsia tried to film "Shanghai Calling" in China. To secure permission to make his story about a...

Freedom of Information

2011-10-18 07:15:44

Pakistani Islamists and supporters of convicted killer Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, shout slogans as they march during a protest against a court verdict in Islamabad on October 7, 2011.

2011-10-07 18:51:59

Former East Jordan elementary teacher Paula Vollbach filed a grievance after the school district released information from her personnel file when requested under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act.

2011-09-22 07:33:24