Chinese authorities, who are wary of dissent as the occasion approaches, arrested the outspoken Gao Yu under a state secrets law that critics call vague and overly broad.
Yiu Mantin, who planned to publish a book condemning the Chinese Communist Party leader, Xi Jinping, was sentenced to 10 years for smuggling industrial chemicals.
Players in the confrontation that convulsed China in 1989 have long wondered how differently events might have played out without a truculent editorial that appeared in People’s Daily on April 26 that year.
Ben Richardson, a former senior Bloomberg News editor based in Hong Kong, was involved in the editing of a story last year on China’s wealthiest man that was not published, following a discussion among the company’s top executives.
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Some stories that Bloomberg runs are considered too sensitive to run in China, raising questions about a clash of journalistic ideals with commercial interests.
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Hundreds of microblog users across the country have been arrested for what Communist Party officials call malicious rumor-mongering online.
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The rapid grass-roots response to the April earthquake in Sichuan Province reveals how far China’s nascent civil society movement has come since a major quake in 2008.
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A Hong Kong newspaper admitted that a story that was almost too good to be true was, in fact, not.
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The editor of an influential Communist Party journal had called China’s alliance with North Korea “outdated” in an article for a British newspaper.
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