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BBC Country Profile - China

Topic: BBC news on China.

Description: Top-quality China news and country profile from the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Comment: Despite some recent glitches still the most authoritative news worldwide. Cleanly designed web page.

Xinhua Press Agency

Topic: China's official press agency.

Description: News agency.

Comment: Official government news, but quite interesting if you can read between the lines.

People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)

Topic: News.

Description: Official newspaper of the China Communist Party. Sections: China, World, Opinion, Business, Science / Education, Culture / Life, Sports, Photos.

Comment: The voice of the CCP. Interesting: The "Opinion" section.

CHINADaily

Topic: Larges news portal in China.

Description: Largest English-language news portal from China. Most widely available English-language newspaper.

Comment: Sometimes quite open discussion of problems in China.

People's Liberation Army News (Jiefangjun Bao)

Topic: News.

Description: Newspaper of People's Liberation Army.

Comment: Hard-core views. Its interesting that the link includes ".com" (www.chinamil.com.cn), which is the Internet-domain for commerce.

CCTV - News, China

Topic: News portal of CCTV.

Description: English-language channel of China Central Television, China's largest national TV network.

Comment: English version of Chinese TV news. See: CCTV-9 in English.

China National Radio

Topic: Radio News

Description: National, state-run radio.

Comment: China Radio International with programs in more than 40 languages.

South China Morning Post, Hong Kong

Topic: Newspaper.

Description: Hong Kong's premier English-language newspaper.

Comment: Slow web site. Most of the content is only available for subscribers.

ChinaOnline, USA

Topic: China news site from Chicago, USA.

Description: English-language news about China.

Comment: US perspective.

Xiù Cai, Germany

Topic: Newsletter (in German)

Description: Newsletter with economic, political, social and cultural insider information. Published by East-Asia Institute of FH Ludwigshafen.

Comment: Newsletter produced by people who know China inside out. Background information on China.

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