Beijing lets news in for the Olympic Games
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BEIJING - With a month to go before the Olympics - a time when most host cities are set to offer the world a warm greeting - Beijing seems wary. (article 2)
Chinese officials have defended the moves as necessary to prevent terrorism and keep out what a Foreign Ministry consular affairs official called " hostile forces. (article 2)
Since Beijing won its bid to host the games, however, critics have attacked China's record on issues ranging from human rights to food safety to the environment. (article 3)
BEIJING - China is expanding sales of foreign newspapers and magazines for next month's Beijing Olympics, the importer and a state newspaper said Thursday. (article 5)
Foreign news Web sites are blocked in China and satellite news channels such as CNN and BBC are restricted to hotels, offices and housing compounds occupied by foreigners. (article 5)
" Providing foreign newspapers and magazines during the Olympics is an international practice and also part of our commitment to the Games the paper said, quoting Jiao Guoying, president of China National. (article 5)
Chinese censors often remove or paste shut pages of newspapers and magazines that contain stories or other content considered sensitive or unflattering to the communist authorities, including several pages of a recent National Geographic special edition devoted to China. (article 5)
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China, BEIJING, Chinese, Olympic, Foreign |
Source articles
- ABC News: China Olympic Preps: Miss Manners (ABCNews, 07/10/2008, 340 words)
- A jittery China awaits the Olympics (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/11/2008, 1096 words)
- Olympic Pressure on China (Washington Post, 07/11/2008, 200 words)
- Two Concerns for Olympics (nytimes.com, 07/09/2008, 748 words)
- China to expand foreign newspaper sales for games (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/09/2008, 327 words)
- Beijing lets news in for the Olympic Games (timesonline.co.uk, 07/11/2008, 469 words)
- Times Online (timesonline.co.uk, 07/10/2008, 497 words)
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