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NEWS ABOUT: Xinhua

Xinhua stories: 8 news summaries

 China Reopens Tibetan Tourism 

Torch relay demonstrated stability, state media says

Jun 25, 08 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - China is allowing foreign tourists to enter Tibet for the first time since March protests, sources tell the BBC. The Olympic torch’s smooth reception in Lhasa over the weekend means "Tibet is safe,” a Tibetan tourism director tells state media. "We welcome the domestic and foreign... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Olympic torch • Xinhua • Lhasa • torch relay

 Thousands Flee After
 New Quake Warning 

Roads jam, open spaces fill with crowds in Chengdu, Dhina

May 19, 08 8:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new quake warning sent thousands of frightened Chinese running into the streets of Chengdu today, Reuters reports. With nerves still raw from last week's disaster, drivers jammed roads and people dragged their bedding into open spaces. A 5.0 aftershock in Pingwu County also sent buildings swaying in Chengdu,... More »

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China • panic • aftershock • Xinhua • China earthquake

Quake Moves Xinhua Past Propaganda

Chinese news agency focuses coverage on victims, not government

May 13, 08 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, is better known for People’s Republic propaganda than hard-hitting journalism. But in the aftermath of the catastrophic Sichuan earthquake, the Wall Street Journal reports, the agency has published hundreds of up-to-the-minute accounts, many of them on the anguish of the victims and the... More »

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China • propaganda • news • natural disaster • earthquake • Xinhua • media coverage

 China Will Meet With
  Dalai Lama Aide 

First meeting with Tibetan leadership since unrest

Apr 25, 08 4:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Beijing officials will meet in the next few days with a representative of the Dalai Lama, reports AFP, quoting Chinese media. The meeting would be the first encounter between the Tibetan leadership and members of the Chinese government since last month's unrest in Tibet. China has come under intense foreign... More »

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China • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Tibet • Dalai Lama • Tibetan independence • Xinhua

Chinese Get No Independent News on Tibet

Official story of foreign-incited riots is playing well at home

Apr 2, 08 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - China's media outlets have been getting their information about the recent unrest in Tibet solely from the state-controlled news agency, Xinhua. As a result, most Chinese citizens are buying the government's handling of what has been portrayed as mob violence plotted from abroad—when it's been covered at all, the... More »

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China • censorship • Tibet • Xinhua • Great Firewall of China • media coverage

China Slams Pelosi's Support for Tibet

House Speaker guilty
of 'double standards,' state says

Mar 23, 08 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - China’s government hammered House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today over her meeting with the Dalai Lama and subsequent condemnation of China's "oppression" of Tibetan protests that turned to riots, the AP reports. Xinhua, China’s state news agency, said “human rights police” like Pelosi employed “double standards”... More »

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China • Nancy Pelosi • human rights • 2008 Beijing Olympics • protests • Tibet • Dalai Lama • riots • Xinhua

China Admits Police Shot Tibetan Protesters

State's claim of 13 dead, 4 wounded at odds with exiles' estimate of 99 killed

Mar 20, 08 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - China admitted today its police opened fire on Tibetan protesters, wounding four in “self-defense,” the BBC reports. The statement from state-run Xinhua news agency is China’s first admission to hurting anyone since protests began last week. Chinese officials say rioters have killed 13; Tibetan activists reported security... More »

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China • protests • Tibet • Dalai Lama • riots • shooting • Xinhua • security forces • Tibetans • political demonstrations • activists

China: Sorry for This Fake Photo

State news agency apologizes for doctored image of antelopes near train

Feb 22, 08 5:12 PM CST
(Newser) - China’s state-run news service has apologized for running—and honoring—a doctored photo that aided the government’s argument about a new train line's environmental impact. The 2006 image showed antelopes frolicking under Tibetan tracks, purportedly demonstrating that the beloved beasts weren’t affected by them. It worked, until... More »

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China • Beijing • photograph • Tibet • Photoshop • hoax • Xinhua • antelope • doctored photo

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