Reporters sans frontières - China"Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-month ban slapped on financial weekly China Business Post, accused of having broken the law in an article on the Agricultural Bank of China.
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Following negotiations, the newspaper was able
to appear as usual on 11 September, but the 18 September issue was
banned. This sanction followed complaints from leading officials in
Hunan, southern China and from the Agricultural bank of China. The
weekly in July accused the Changde, Hunan office of the public bank of
poor management of assets."
IFEX ::"...China's Central Propaganda Department has ordered newspaper journalists to leave the city where the company considered responsible for a nationwide milk powder poisoning scandal has its headquarters.
The IFJ has learned that the central government has escalated restrictions on reporting on the scandal by ordering journalists from at least four newspapers, including Southern Metropolis Daily, to leave Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, where milk products company Sanlu is based.
The Central Propaganda Department has also allegedly deleted articles relating to the case from websites reporting on the scandal, in which milk powder contaminated with the industrial chemical melamine is said to have caused the deaths of four babies and resulted in illness among at least 53,000 children."
