Beijing News denies publisher resignation rumors
(01-09 14:51)
The Beijing News, co-owned by Southern Media Group, said that the publisher is still at work where operation remains normal, RTHK reported.
The paper's publisher Dai Zigeng was said to resign after propaganda officials force the Beijing newspaper to carry an editorial by state-run Global Times commenting on Southern Weekly.
Police cars were seen parking near the Beijing News office.
A Chinese newspaper at the center of a dispute over government censorship that has triggered rare public protests will publish as usual tomorrow, a senior reporter at the weekly said.
The censored Southern Weekly article was titled "China's Dream, the Dream of Constitutionalism,'' and called on authorities to implement the country's constitution, which enshrines rights including freedom of speech and assembly.
All Chinese media organisations are subject to instructions from government propaganda departments, which often suppress news seen as "negative'' by the ruling Communist Party, although some publications take a more critical stance.
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