China: media restricted from reporting mining disaster
Posted by Ulrike Trux on February 16, 2005 at 4:42 PM
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
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