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AUG 5, 2008
China Apologizes for Police Beating of Foreign Journalists
iStockAnalsyt
As tens of thousands of foreign journalists arrive to test China's pledges to respect media freedom during the Olympic Games, the nation offered apologies Tuesday for the beatings that police gave two Japanese journalists who were covering a deadly assault by Muslim separatists.
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AUG 5, 2008
YouTube to provide Olympics Coverage in Some Countries
TechWhack
Google owned video sharing service YouTube has announced that it has now signed up a deal with International Olympic Committee to provide limited coverage of the event in 77 countries across the world.
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AUG 4, 2008
Beijing Under Wraps
The New York Times
Even as China projects a new air of openness and tolerance as it rolls out the welcome mat for Olympics visitors, the government is cracking down on citizens. Last week, Chinese officials ordered copies of The Beijing News removed from newsstands and censored the newspaper’s Web site after it published a photograph of victims wounded during the 1989 democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. The authorities have barred distribution of the English version of Time Out Beijing, a magazine for which I write, for the past two months. A good friend who is an American professor had valuable political texts in Chinese seized when he arrived at Beijing’s airport. And a shipment of my recently published food memoir, which I intended to distribute to friends, was detained and sent back to the United States by Chinese customs officials, who explained that my books were not “approved materials.”
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AUG 1, 2008
China Lifts Internet Restrictions but Warns Foreign Media
The Daily Telegraph
For the first time, major international websites devoted to human rights, such as those of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, were freely accessible on computer screens across the city. Despite the relaxation of censorship, President Hu Jintao, in a rare press conference with foreign journalists, seemed to issue a warning on how China expected the Games to be portrayed.
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AUG 1, 2008
Restrictions on Net Access in China Seem Relaxed
The New York Times
The Chinese authorities appear to have lifted some of the restrictions that blocked Web sites for journalists working at the Olympic Village although other politically sensitive sites, including those on Tibet, remained inaccessible on Friday morning.
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