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Beijing News recalled from newsstands for carrying subversive picture

"Yesterday, Beijing News published an interview with former Associated Press Beijing-based reporter Liu Xiangcheng. The story appeared in page C15, and belongs to the series about thirty years of reform. The title was I used photographs to record the... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Jul 25 2008

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