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.
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.
Chinese authorities have arrested 59 people in Tibet accused of spreading rumors and inciting sentiment against the state and public safety, state-run media reported.
Chinese democracy? That's a thorny subject even for Axl and Guns N' Roses. Chinese patriots responded as expected, all to the benefit of the rock band.
The regulations that limited the work of foreign journalists have been permanently lifted. The Chinese official news agency looks into this and portrays a comparison with the situation before this new regulation. The report makes a point about the opening up of the country.
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.
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.
The State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, on Monday approved an appeal to the Russian president on the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two breakaway regions of Georgia.
A deadly virus has spread rapidly in eastern China, killing at least 21 children and infecting nearly 3,000, Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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 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.
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.
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.
It is always enlightening to see what others are reading, particularly people from other regions and cultures.
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.