China: media restricted from reporting mining disaster

ABC reports that Chinese authorities have tightened media coverage of the recent mining disaster that killed at least 203 miners in a gas explosion at a colliery in the country's north-east. Local journalists in Liaoning province where the blast occurred say government officials, apparently from China's central propaganda department, have ordered a local news blackout. Local papers are to only use material supplied by the national State-controlled news agency.

Source: ABC News