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CCTV News
| Apr 26, 2013
Chinese citizens have been intensely following rescue and recovery efforts in China's Sichuan Province, after the region suffered its second major earthquake since 2008. China's CCTV presents the latest updates on the damage, while LinkAsia's Jing...
LinkAsia
| Mar 22, 2013
China's state-run CCTV leveled serious charges against Apple this week, claiming that its customer service representatives discriminate against Chinese. But as LinkAsia's David Bandurski reports, CCTV itself is under fire for allegedly using an ar...
Euronews
| Jan 18, 2013
WARNING: Graphic Content. A distraught man carrying a wounded child through rubble and shouting "innocent children, innocent children" is the opening image on one of several amateur videos posted on a social website. They have been unverified and...
Al Jazeera English
| Jan 14, 2013
Even editorials in state media are now demanding that Chinese officials tell the truth about appalling levels of acrid air pollution smothering Beijing. The editorials today joined internet users in calling for a re-evaluation of the nation's mode...
LinkAsia
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CCTV News
| Dec 6, 2012
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...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 15, 2012
Syrian state TV has broadcast footage of the aftermath of a bomb attached to a fuel tanker that exploded close to a UN hotel in central Damascus, injuring three people. Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad condemned the attack as a crimina...
LinkAsia
| Aug 3, 2012
The Chinese government grossly underreported the number of casualties in the wake of July's devastating Beijing floods. Yet as our contributor David Bandurski reports, it was another case of state media being pressured into disclosing the true cos...
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 27, 2012
Violence in Syria's bloody uprising against the government of Bashar al-Assad continues, as government troops gather near Aleppo and clashes are reported from Idlib and Deraa provinces. Meanwhile, Ikhlas al-Badawi, a member of the Syrian parliame...
Russia Today
| Jul 25, 2012
Beicheying Village in Beijing's Fangshan District recorded 46 centimetres (18 inches) of rain on Saturday as the capital experienced its heaviest downpour in six decades. At least 37 people died in Beijing and it's not yet clear how many of the de...
CNN
| Jul 25, 2012
North Korea's state broadcaster has revealed that the 'mystery lady' seen with leader Kim Jong-un in recent weeks is in fact his wife, Ri Sol-ju. Despite the initial secrecy, the new first lady's high profile is a stark departure from the past. CN...
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...of resistance," the self-styled rat pack of anti-Israel, anti-U.S. countries including Syria, Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah. That's why a Syrian sta...
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...forces in Kuwait have been urging the dissolution of the assembly, and Sunday's development is seen as a move closer to holding new parliamentar...