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Weekend Insight: Mainlanders Explore Democracy in Taiwan, Protest Erupts Over Chemical Plant, 50 Million Farmers Have Lost Land

WEEKEND INSIGHT IS an Eye on China feature that aggregates the best of The Epoch Times' coverage on all that pertains to China. BUREAUCRACY Though Yo Fin Chou and his wife are originally from China, the regime’s draconian house registration system and … Continue reading

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Investigative Reporter and Team Pushed Out in Newspaper Shake-Up

NO MORE DIGGING: That's the message that Wang Keqin and his team of investigative journalists got on July 20 from their employer, China Economic Times. Wang, a prominent muckraking reporter who exposed such scandals as Shanxi children dying from defective … Continue reading

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Media and Governance: Like Oil and Water

IN A JUNE 1 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Xinhua News Agency President Li Congjun advocated for a "media U.N." that would oversee news organizations across the globe in what he believes should be a new system that will … Continue reading

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Muckrakers in China: Resisting Bribes and Knives to Expose Corruption – Part I

What follows is the first part of a translation, of sorts, of part of a popular article about China's muckraking journalists, and the difficulties of their profession. It was published by Modern Express (现代快报) on Dec. 6. This post was embargoed for a week … Continue reading

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