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Banned Terms in Xinhua News Reporting - Tianya
| China Digital Times
From Tianya, translated by ESWN: According to the spirit of the instructions from Comrades Chongming and Chunzhong, the domestic section, international section, external section and news research institute of the general editorial room have collected and organized the banned terms...
Pigs Banned amid Chinese Year of the Pig
Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:06:06 +0800 | Letters from China
A victory for tolerance, shall we say? Li Changchun (China's biggest nanny) has banned images and mention of pigs in TV advertisements airing over the lunar new year to avoid offending the country's Muslims, DPA (via Sydney Morning Herald) reported....
How to Buy Banned Books in Beijing?
Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:48:28 +0800 | Letters from China
Zhang Yihe's new book, Past Stories of Peking Opera Stars, was banned, we are told by the South China Morning Post and International Herald Tribune. But how do the propagandists ban a book? That we are not told. Do the...
Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:53:12 +0000 | John Chow dot Com
First I get banned from Digg (I did get unbanned, but all my stories are on auto-bury so I might as well be banned). Then Technorati freezes my ranking because of an evil ping attack. Now I find out that China, the country that was I born in, has blocked access to this blog! According [...]
China: Book banned prior to printing
Wed, 21 Mar 2007 23:38:38 +0000 | Global Voices Online - China
Prior to a recent reprinting, ‘A Narrow Escape From Death: My ‘Right-wing’ Life’, a book from retired Xinhua journalist Dai Huang was banned from being published by order of China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), in which Dai recounts the years during which he was cast as a rightist and forced to undergo [...]
Nigerian defender banned in China
| Findory News China
BBC: Nigerian defender Gabriel Melkam is banned for three matches for wearing a vest emblazoned with "Chinese umpires are all fakes".
Correction: China-Pet Food Recall Story
Mon, 21 May 2007 16:31:00 +0000 | Newsvine China
In May 9 and May 10 stories about China's food safety policies, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin are banned in the United States. The antibiotics, members of the family of drugs known as fluoroquinolones, are not banned by the U.S. and are often used to treat human illness. However, they have never been approved for use in aquaculture and any amount detected in fish tissue deems the product adulterated, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some southern U.S. states recently banned imports of catfish from China after tests detected ciprofloxacin and enrofloxacin.
