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China State Broadcaster Apologizes for Hotel Fire; Netizens React (Images Added)
Authorities have now acknowledged that the devastating fire at the CCTV complex in Beijing, which killed one firefighter and injured several others, was caused by an illegal fireworks display set off...
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Photo: Beijing residents collect fragments of the burned CCTV building today,...
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Han Han’s (韩寒) Censored Comments on CCTV Fire (Updated)
Han Han (韩寒), a Shanghai based twenty six years old popular young writer, race car driver and leading blogger, immediately posted a comment on his blog when he heard about the CCTV fire, before any...
View ArticlePhotos: China’s Lantern Festival, and an Unfortunate Ending
The Boston Globe has posted a photo series of Lantern Festival celebrated around China, ending with the fire at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing: Marking the end of the Chinese New Year, the...
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Netizens Ridicule CCTV (Video Added)
From AFP, via the Straits Times: On web forums, gleeful Internet users digitally edited Internet photos to add giant robots and fire-breathing dragons attacking the broadcaster’s building. Xiao Qiang,...
View ArticleChina Detains Building Chief in TV Complex Blaze
The axe has begun to fall for Monday’s fire at the CCTV headquarters. From the New York Times: The police detained 12 people, including the chief of construction for the new headquarters of China...
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Han Han (韩寒): Bash CCTV When It’s On Fire
China’s young and hottest blogger Han Han (韩寒) took fire at CCTV once again. This blogpost, written on Feb. 11, has once again been deleted from his Sina blog, but remains on the recently “resurrected”...
View ArticleBook Says Wen Jiabao Ordered Investigation of CCTV Fire (Updated)
Overseas news website Duowei revealed excerpts of a book recently published in Hong Kong about CCTV. In the book, author Li Chunguang (李春光) writes that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a decision in the...
View ArticleChina Replacing CCTV’s Chief After Fallout From Fire
Three months after a fire at CCTV’s new headquarters, the head of the broadcaster is being replaced, the Wall Street Journal reports: In a brief report, state-run Xinhua news agency said 61-year-old...
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Li Datong: A Modern End to Media Suppression
“A powerful internet – and public demand for honest reporting – is driving the state media to ever-greater levels of openness.” From the Guardian: On the night of 9 February, China Central Television’s...
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Photo: CCTV Headquarters taken from the west, by rudenoon
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China Finds 71 Liable for Fire at CCTV Headquarters
From the Wall Street Journal: Seventy-one people have been found responsible for the fireworks-fueled blaze that engulfed a building in the new headquarters of state broadcaster China Central...
View ArticleCCTV Building Fire Trials Underway
A year after the incident, a court in Beijing is hearing the case against 23 people accused of being responsible for the fire at CCTV’s new headquarter building sparked by New Year’s fireworks. From...
View ArticleChina Sentences 20 to Jail for CCTV Fire
Twenty people have been sentenced to jail for last year’s deadly fire at the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing. From AP: Xu Wei, the former head of CCTV’s construction bureau, was sentenced to seven...
View ArticleKoolhaas, Delirious in Beijing
The New York Times reviews the massive new CCTV headquarters in Beijing: After Rem Koolhaas, the project’s architect, unveiled the design in 2003 he was pilloried by Western journalists for glorifying...
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