Stories China's media could not write
Source: BBC News
When journalists at China's national broadcaster CCTV log on, one of the first things that pops up on screen is a notice about what not to report.
BREAKING NEWS: China says "suspected" bird flu patient dies
Source: alertnet.org
A woman suspected of being infected with bird flu has died in Beijing, the local health bureau said on Tuesday of what would be the first bird flu death in the country in almost a year. The woman died on Monday. Her age was not known, Xinhua news agency said.
Xinhua Caught Publishing Fake Chinese Spacecraft Article
Source: Epoch Times
The fabricated article titled, "An Exciting Night on the Pacific: Shenzhou VII Orbits 30 Times," was published even before the Shenzhou VII spacecraft was launched. The article was soon deleted from the website.
SPACE.com -- China Liftoff Announced Before Liftoff
Source: space.com
Apparently, the official Chinese news agency already had a story in the can recounting the launch of their first space mission. A tech mistakenly aired the story before the rocket took off, creating one of the most embarrassing moments in the history of Communist propaganda.
China train crash kills 70 and injures hundreds
Source: Reuters
Two passenger trains collided in eastern China on Monday, killing at least 70 people and injuring hundreds as carriages jumped the tracks and toppled into a ditch, state media said.
China admits shooting Tibeten protesters
Source: Guardian Unlimited
China has acknowledged for the first time that anti-government protests have spread outside Tibet, and announced arrests following the riots in Lhasa. Thousands of armed police have flooded into the provinces and neighbouring Qinghai province amid sporadic demonstrations.
Chinese Admit Famous Photo Was Faked
Source: Wall Street Journal
It turns out that train tracks in Tibet aren't where the antelope play. Earlier this week, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, issued an unusual public apology for publishing a doctored photograph of Tibetan wildlife frolicking near a high-speed train.
Chinese Source Reports First Australian Casualty in Iraq
Source:
A soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed and another wounded Monday in a roadside blast in southern Afghan province of Uruzgan, an ISAF spokesman Maj. Charles Anthony told Xinhua.
China reins in reach of foreign news
Source: Christian Science Monitor
On Sunday, China's official news agency Xinhua issued a new set of directives on the distribution of foreign news in China that reinforces its traditional role as gatekeeper and propaganda arm.