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    • Saturday, 24 December, 2022
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      Directors say territory’s once-acclaimed movie industry is under threat from Beijing’s crackdown

    • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
      Growing list of books targeted in America’s school culture wars

      Politicians and parent groups step up hunt for publications they claim are inappropriate for children

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
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      Banners hung from bridge call for leader’s removal ahead of Communist party congress

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
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      Social media platform unlikely to reverse decision to block former US president Donald Trump

    • Tuesday, 23 August, 2022
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      State-controlled social media giant will take over tech group’s news aggregator, blogging platform and homepage

    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
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      Author who spent years in hiding because of fatwa is in critical condition but able to speak

    • Saturday, 13 August, 2022
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      Suspect charged with attempted murder and assault of writer who spent years in hiding because of Iranian fatwa

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
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      Vietnam lures Hollywood crews but censorship hangs over film sector

      One-party state’s Cinema Law bans ‘reactionary ideas and social evils’

    • Friday, 1 July, 2022
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      Turkey bans access to US and German public broadcasters

      Block on Deutsche Welle and Voice of America websites risks fuelling tension between Ankara and the west

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
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      Tech companies and Republican-led states have clashed over moderation limits and misinformation

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
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      Growing popularity of decentralised ledger technology presents fresh challenge for country’s censors

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
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      Proposal to reveal locations exposes patriotic commentators and stokes outrage among users

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
      British publishers censor books for western readers to appease China

      References to Taiwan, Hong Kong and other subjects deemed sensitive by Beijing are excised

    • Monday, 14 March, 2022
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      Hong Kong threatens British campaigner with national security law

      Head of UK-based group ordered to take down website or face possible prison sentence

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    • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
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      Kremlin propaganda machine struggles to conceal Putin’s Ukraine war

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    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
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      Turkey set to ban German and US public broadcasters

      Deutsche Welle and Voice of America say they will not comply with attempt at ‘censorship’

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      Media mogul Yu Pun-hoi treads carefully between mollifying China and hanging on to readers

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      US slams China over treatment of foreign journalists

      Biden administration decries ‘intimidation’ of reporters after harassment covering Henan floods

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