Apple CEO Tim Cook released an official statement on Monday apologizing for Apple's double standard in after-sales services in China. CCTV broke the story last month that Apple's warranties in China were different than those in other countries, an...

Since he's taken power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged reforms and talked tough on corruption. But a recently leaked speech has hinted at his true colors. Contributor David Bandurski looks at the debate around what kind of leader Xi Jinp...

On January 6, journalists at Guangzhou's hard-hitting Southern Weekly newspaper went on strike to protest government censors rewriting a scathing New Year's Day editorial calling for political reform. South Korean broadcaster MBC breaks down the s...

China's Southern Weekly newspaper was back on newsstands today after censors agreed to back off. Al Jazeera speaks to the Washington Post's Beijing bureau chief about the journalists' strike that could prove to be a landmark moment for press freed...

China's feisty Southern Weekly newspaper has become the focal point of renewed press freedom protests after their controversial New Year's editorial was rewritten by propaganda officials. LinkAsia speaks with Anne Henochowicz of the China Digital ...

China's state broadcaster CCTV has just held their annual "Economic Person of the Year" awards, celebrating ten of the countries most "innovative and successful businesspeople." Winners of China's economic Oscars included Jack Ma, head of online r...

Information on the recent wave of Tibetan self-immolations had been largely absent from state-run CCTV News until today. In this piece, the network reports on two Tibetan monks arrested by Chinese authorities in Sichuan province for "inciting self...

Earlier this year, it was president-in-waiting Xi Jinping who mysteriously disappeared from public view. Now, it's new propaganda chief Liu Qibao. Contributor David Bandurski reports on China's "systemic obsession with secrecy" involving the well-...

A stunning concession from state-run Chinese media: "A growing number of microbloggers are becoming a force to be reckoned with in exposing abuse of power." CCTV News attempts to appropriate Weibo's power to take down low-level corrupt Party offic...

Chinese microbloggers were hard at work giving counter-spin to the Communist Party's propaganda machine during the first meeting of the 18th National Congress. Contributor David Bandurski reports from Hong Kong on how social media users overwhelme...