Dangers of reporting on Myanmar's cyclone

"I can't talk now, I think I'm in danger," a reporter in Myanmar whispered into the phone. Click.

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Emmy Censors Got Workout on Awards Night

The Emmy censors were bleeping busy on Sunday night as three actors slipped in expletives during the live broadcast.

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"IT IS NOT our job to fix the Chinese government," Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said last week. Maybe not. But search engines operating in China face a dilemma come July.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he has considered taking legal action against the group that blacklisted Wikipedia in the United Kingdom because of a nude photo on an album cover featured in one of its articles.

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The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said the Imperial Edition of Caligula - which features explicit lesbian sex scenes, incest and implied bestiality - will now be permitted for sale because it is of "historical interest".

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In the nine days since Chinese leaders presided over a grandiose - and, it turns out, partly faked - opening ceremony, one fact after another has eluded the censors and fuelled public indignation at the costs and the charade.

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Chinese action star Jet Li has voiced frustration that his Hollywood films do not get shown in his home country. Writing on his website, the star said his 2000 hit Romeo Must Die was banned by censors for featuring gangsters.

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Excerpt: "What happened that sultry evening of July 4 seemed to be news by anybody's definition. It was the worst disaster in ages to hit Tian Shifu, a raw town of 40,000 residents in the wooded hills of Liaoning province 350 miles northeast of Beijing.

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China's drive to impose social and political "harmony" on the internet has claimed a new set of victims: undead skeletons.

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Censors have unblocked the English version of Wikipedia in China, with some restrictions, but apparently not the Chinese language edition.

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China has censored part of the latest instalment of hit Hollywood movie Pirates of the Caribbean for "vilifying and defacing the Chinese", the official Xinhua news agency said today

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FACT likes to call the "Beat the Censors–Unblock ICT!" CD its first "weapon of mass instruction". "In fact, the disk is applicable for use in any censored country."

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High above Bangkok in the 18th-storey offices of Thailand's Cultural Surveillance Centre, the nation's moral monitors are hard at work.

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Camouflaged censorship is a little discussed form of restricted speech -- and it's on the rise.

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A short piece about how random proxy servers help the chinese internet users avoid being tracked by the government

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