NTD Signs Agreement on Satellite Broadcast Reaching China
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New Tang Dynasty Asia Pacific (NTD-AP) and Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) in Taiwan signed an agreement on June 27 to continue broadcasting NTD-AP on CHT's C-band service on satellite ST-2, whose footprint covers a large part of China.
In signing the agreement, CHT reversed a previous decision not to lease space on the satellite to NTD-AP, which critics say was probably made under pressure from Beijing. Because CHT is controlled by the Taiwan government, over the past two months many activists and politicians in Taiwan, the United States, and Europe have raised their concern that Taiwan was departing from its principles of freedom of speech.
"We are glad that Chunghwa Telecom has finally made the right decision to keep open this satellite window for China," said NTD spokesperson Carrie Hung.
"We would like to thank all our supporters around the world, and will continue to seek opportunities to expand our satellite broadcast platform to China to serve the tens of millions of satellite viewers there."
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Preparations Underway for NTD's 2011 Competition Series
A 10-course Chinese banquet, Chang'an in Times Square, oil paintings, powerful vocalists and orthodox martial artists -- all part of this year's NTD Chinese International Competition Series.
This year's first event, the 4th International Chinese Culinary Competition, will once again see Times Square in New York transformed into Chang'an -- China's capital during the Tang Dynasty.
On September 22 & 23 Chinese chefs from around the world will battle it out in Times Square for the gold award in each of five cuisine categories: Szechuan, Cantonese, Shandong, Northeastern, and Huaiyang.
The open-air competition can be seen by spectators live in Times Square, and "Wok-side" VIP seating for tasting will be available.
Then on Sunday, September 25 at Pier Sixty in New York, a cocktail reception, award ceremony and 10-course banquet prepared by the winners will mark the end of this year's culinary competition and NTD's 10 year anniversary.
For more information and tickets to this year's culinary events visit
www.bestchinesechefs.com
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Traffic Surges to NTD Website from China
Over the past month, the Internet traffic from China to NTD's website has increased by over 40%. Now, on average, over 120,000 daily unique visitors come to NTD's website from Mainland China.
For these visitors, the most popular programs include China Forbidden News, World News, Mainland News Dissector, News Click, Focus Talk, and Zooming In.
Wang Hongshen, an Internet viewer from Hebei province, wrote to NTD: "My colleagues and I love your programs so much. You provide us with the information that would otherwise never be known. NTD is our lifeline."
To watch NTD China News in the English language visit
www.english.ntdtv.com
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NTD China Blog: Truth and Lies Behind China's Xintang Protests
Riots in Xintang, a township of Zengcheng county in Guangdong province, started when word spread that city management (chengguan) had beaten a street vendor to death and roughed up his pregnant wife. But authorities held a press conference on Sunday (June 12), where they presented a man who they said was the one "rumored to have been killed."
A summary from AFP:
The clashes in Xintang, a district in the greater Guangzhou area, began on June 10 after rumors spread that police had beaten a street hawker to death and manhandled his pregnant wife.
The man rumored to have been killed was presented at a news conference by authorities last Sunday, telling reporters that he, his wife and their unborn baby girl were "doing very well".
Police said they had detained a person suspected of spreading rumours on the Internet that triggered the clashes.
The public security bureau in Guangzhou city announced on its official page on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, that the suspect surnamed Chen was detained Tuesday and had confessed to publishing false information online.
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On Friday, June 17 the Zengcheng Daily published on a local government website, that "Armed police did not carry lethal weapons or fire a single shot" and that "There was no confrontation between police and the civilian population, nor between the local population and migrants."
But according to AFP:
"On June 15 the judicial authorities arrested 19 people suspected of obstructing the work of the police, provoking incidents and deliberately destroying property," the Zengcheng Daily said Friday in an article published on a local government website.
The article stressed that nobody was killed in the clashes and said "armed police did not carry lethal weapons or fire a single shot".
"There was no confrontation between police and the civilian population, nor between the local population and migrants," the article said.
But television images of the unrest showed hundreds of officers and armored vehicles deployed, with people hurling bricks and bottles at local officials and police, and vandalizing ATMs and police posts.
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"And the beauty of the synergy and the movement.
There was not a singular person, it moved in unison, which was so beautiful. It was a tremendous collaboration you know of a force, and each piece had it's own message. So it really did have a unique individual statement and took you to so many places. It was like going on a journey to China here in New York."
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Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei is now out of custody and on bail. But so far, the artist hasn't talked to the media about his 81 days in detention.
NTD spoke to Ai Weiwei's mother, Gao Ying, over the phone in China. She tells what she went through during her son's secret detention.
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Gas from a chemical plant has been blamed for making almost 100 middle-school students fall ill on Saturday in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
The students, from Yucai Middle School in Tongzi County, started feeling sick on Wednesday and were sent to the hospital. By early Saturday, 96 students had reported symptoms associated with chemical gas poisoning, including headaches and shortness of breath.
Twenty-two of the students are still in the hospital.
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Press freedom advocates have criticized the Chinese regime for sentencing a journalist to eight more years in jail.
Qi Chonghuai was expecting to be released on Saturday after having served a four-year sentence. But on June 9th authorities in northeastern Shandong Province extended his term.
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The year was 1996. A Beijing woman in her early 40s stepped into a record shop. She'd been suffering from a bad kidney problem, was isolated, and depressed.
But in that record shop, she saw a music video playing that changed her life -- Michael Jackson, laying out his signature dance moves. She decided she'd like to learn how to dance like that.
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