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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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AP takes a look at press freedom in Russia
June 11, 2008
1. Wide of the World Trade Centre, venue of Press Congress
2. Wide of interior of the congress
3. Mid of press
4. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia:
"Today and in the future our permanent...
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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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Three protesters arrested for disrupting Olympic ceremony released
1. Wide of French reporters walking, (from left to right) Jean Francois Julliard, Thomas Jacobi (reporter but not involved in protest) and Robert Menard (in background) ++MUTE++
2. Wide of head of Reporters without Borders Asia bureau,...
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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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+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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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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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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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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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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Students from six high schools in Jefferson County, Colorado walked out of class Tuesday in the second straight day of student protests in the district. (Sept. 23)
Students from six high schools in Jefferson County, Colorado walked out of class Tuesday in the second straight day of student protests in the district.
Students in state's second-largest school district are protesting a proposal to...
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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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SINGAPORE: SPEAKERS CORNER OPENED
English/Nat
Singapore opened its own Speakers' Corner on Friday in a city park, giving citizens in the tightly-controlled city-state an opportunity to vent their opinions in public.
Singaporeans ever reluctant to question public...
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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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Tear gas and water cannon used to break up protest against Internet bill
Riot police fired plastic bullets, tear gas and sprayed water at hundreds of anti-government protesters in Istanbul and the Turkish capital of Ankara on Saturday evening.
The protesters were demonstrating against a draft legislation...
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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...