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The Chinese government censors all mention of June 4, 1989, when scores of students were killed by army troops ordered to clear Tiananmen Square from demonstrators. Few Chinese students today know the outlines of the tragedy. (June 3)
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(SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Lu Qiuxuan, Student - Beijing Foreign Studies University:)
"I have never ever heard my teacher talk about June 4. Never ever. In our textbooks, this never was...
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Censorship fears over enactment of new internet blacklist law
1. Wide of start of news conference
2. Wide of speakers taking seats
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group:
"The passing of new draconian laws with bans of all sorts of...
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Myanmar's first international literary festival opens
1. Pan from book to people looking at books for sale
2. Various of people looking at books for sale
3. Close of banner reading (English) "Irrawaddy Literary Festival"
4. Push in to book stand
5. Close of former exiled Burmese writer...
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UK: LONDON: INTERNATIONAL EROTICA EXHIBITION OPENS
English/Nat
An international erotica exhibition was launched in London on Friday with the aim of taking erotica out of the red light district and into the homes of ordinary people.
The events organisers are hoping to end the myth that...
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Google self-censors China search engine
1. Wide of Beijing Internet cafe with people seated at screens
2. Medium man staring at computer screen
3. Mid of faces watching screen
4. Close of computer screen showing animation of basket ball game
5. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Mr Li...
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Foreign ministry official comments on Israeli settlement building, internet censorship
Beijing urged Israel to abandon plans to build new settlements in east Jerusalem after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his blessing for their go-ahead last week.
Spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the new construction of...
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Yahoo expands in China, but faces criticism over jailed journalist
Beijing, China - 11 September 2005
1. Wide of traffic in downtown Hangzhou
2. "Alibaba China Internet Summit" banners over the road
3. Various internet cafe
4. Reporters Without Borders web page
5. Various Yahoo China web page
5....
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Preview of exhibition of photos of Liu Xia, wife of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xia's work is censored in her native China.
The photographer, who is under house arrest, uses life-like dolls as metaphors for the pain and suffering of the Chinese people.
And Liu knows what it is to work in an oppressed society....
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ALBANIA: ALBANIAN NATIONALS RELY ON FOREIGN MEDIA TO FOLLOW EVENTS
Albanian/Nat
Despite worldwide focus on the crisis in Albania, the Albanian people themselves remain unable to accurately gain information from what is happening in the country from their own media.
No local newspapers are being...
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Activists say editor fired in attempt to muzzle criticism of alleged vote fraud
December 13, 2011
1. Setup shot for Maxim Kovalsky, former chief editor of Kommersant Vlast weekly, walking in snow
2. Cutaway windows of the Kommersant editorial offices
3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Maxim Kovalsky, former chief editor,...
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MALAYSIA: KUALA LUMPUR: NEW MAGAZINES CAUSE CONTROVERSY
English/Nat
The launch of two men's magazines in Malaysia is causing controversy.
A Malaysian Islamic leader has called for the publications to be banned because of their sexual content.
The magazine editors say their publications are...
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BOSNIA: POLITICAL CONFLICT SPREADS TO STATE RUN MEDIA
Eng/Serbo-Croat/Nat
The Bosnian Serbs' bitter political conflict has spread into the state-run media.
T-V workers in President Biljana Plavsic's stronghold of Banja Luka have come out on strike in protest at censorship and staff...
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Senators on Olympics, human rights, writers hand in petition
New York
1. Wide of writer Salman Rushdie during news conference
2. Mid of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Salman Rushdie, writer:
"The greatest victory of censorship, it seems to me, is when it goes on for so long and is so all...
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+4:3 ONLY ON AP 25 years later, many young Chinese know nothing about Tiananmen Square crackdown
It is absent from textbooks and classrooms. It is scrubbed off China's internet and is missing from its own version of Wikipedia.
"It is as if this topic has been wiped out from Chinese history," said student Lu Qiuxuan.
A...
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Preview of exhibition of photos of Liu Xia, wife of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo
1. Pan from Liu Xia doll photograph on display at Columbia University to sign reading (English) "The Silent Strength of Liu Xia"
2. Wide of visitor at exhibition
3. Close-up of doll in Liu Xia photograph
4. Wide of three photographs
5....
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BELGIUM: NEW CONTROVERSIAL BENETTON CAMPAIGN
English/Nat
The Italian fashion chain Benetton is at the centre of yet another advertising storm following the launch in Europe of a new poster showing two horses mating.
The Benetton campaign, featuring a black stallion and a white...
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Protest after radio host sacked for accusing Chief Executive of suppressing media freedom
Several hundred journalists marched through the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday calling for media freedom.
Reporters chanted "Tell the truth, uphold justice" and held placards reading "Protect press freedom" as they marched.
The protest...
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Protest against government policy requiring new websites to be licensed
1. Wide of people gathered for protest
2. Wide of speaker on stage
3. Mid of speaker addressing crowd
4. Wide of crowd applauding
5. Wide of crowd and placard reading (English): "The Truth is Always Protected By Those Body Guard of Liar...
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Reaction as pro-secular daily publishes cartoons from latest issue of Charlie Hebdo
Police stopped trucks leaving a pro-secular newspaper's printing centre and checked the paper's content on Wednesday after it decided to print a selection of Charlie Hebdo caricatures.
The paper printed a four-page selection of cartoons...
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Journalists protest outside parliament against defamation bill
1 October 2012
1. Mid of journalists and demonstrators holding blank posters
2. Mid of journalists demonstrating outside the entrance to the Parliament committees building
3. Various of demonstrators holding blank posters and blank...
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Min of Industry and Infomation technology comments on Google
FILE: 14 January, 2010
1. Various exterior shots of Google office building
20 July, 2010
2. Wide of news briefing
3. Reporters seated
4. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Zhang Feng, Director General of the Department of Communications Development...
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RR8036B PITIKA NTULI ARTIST IN EXILE
Background to story: Exhaust pipes, chains - some of the material used by black
South African sculptor Pitika Ntuli.At present living in exile in London, Pitika
does not believe in art for art's sake. Every work he creates must have a...
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CAN668 SOUTHERN RHODESIA UNILATERAL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN SALISBURY (HARARE)
Scenes in Salisbury (Harare) after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence is made. Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia Mr Ian Smith makes a radio announcement.
1. ws Ian Smith and others exit a building
2. ms Smith and two others...