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Ten guidelines for local governments including handling riots by being media leader

Posted on 2009-07-29 by Alice Xin Liu

Zhu Huaxin (祝华新) is the Secretary of the “sentiments monitoring office” of State owned People’s Net Online (人民网). On July 24 he wrote for China Youth Daily ten guidelines for local governments on the topic of how to handle Internet public opinion, the outbreak of mass incidents and how to utilize the media, and local government’s reactions as well as response to breaking social incidents.

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Blaming “people who don’t know the truth” does not work

Posted on 2009-07-29 by Eric Mu

Examining the problems with the abused term, the author of this Xinhua op-ed calls for a more prudent way of calling people “who don’t know the truth”.

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“Suicide note” from Shishou makes matters more confusing

Posted on 2009-06-23 by Alice Xin Liu

The case of the death of a cook at the Yonglong Hotel in the city of Shishou, in Hubei province sparked a mass incident involving tens of thousands of residents and riot police.

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