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China: Chang Ping Removed from Office

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 @ 02:01 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Media, Politics
Languages:: Chinese

Chang Ping, the deputy editor of Southern Metropolitan Daily, has been removed from Office because of his commentary in FT calling for freedom of press after the Tibet riot. Youfish said that we must thank Chang Ping for his insistence to speak rationally [zh].

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