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China's 340 million television households have never watched anything quite like this. The show, called TV Court, is a knockoff of America's popular reality courtroom series Judge Judy?and it's brought to you by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. It's all part of the media titan...
Foreign media titans aren't the only programmers that have creative differences with China's television regulators. Consider the fate of Hunan Media Group, once China's funkiest broadcaster. In the 1990s this studio in central Hunan province took advantage of a rule allowing provincial broadcasters to deliver one channel...
Meanwhile, out on the steppe, Jampur is stubbornly?some might say foolishly?clinging to the nomads' age-old way of life. He relishes the freedom of herding and raising animals. And now he has the strongest horse he's ever owned. Even so, he finds his lot desperately hard. At...
Recent army reports have Muklis hiding out in the cloud-swathed mountain range that rises abruptly from the placid waters of Lake Lanao in central Mindanao. "Getting into that area is very, very difficult," says Colonel Ernesto Boac, commander of the army brigade based in Marawi. Standing in front of...
Undeterred, 20 towns-people decided to travel to Harbin in late October to plead with the provincial authorities. While waiting for their bus, they were accosted by five county leaders, five police cars and 25 cops. The secretary of the local Public Security Bureau, Bai Qingzhu, asked them who their...