---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 11.11.1998 New in IGCS - News Media: Pingguo ribao 蘋 果 日 報 (Apple Daily On-line Newspaper) Ed./Corp.: Apple Daily Ltd., Hong Kong, China URL: http://www.appledaily.com.hk/ Language: Chinese (Big5). Description: Launched in June 1995, Apple Daily is one of the territory's two leading mass market newspapers - the other being the Chinese-language Dongfang ribao 東 方 日 報 (Oriental Daily News). Together they share well above 70% of the total newspaper market, both claiming to have the bigger readership. Apple Daily was publicly criticised from the Hongkong Journalist Association (HKJA) for its sensational reporting and outrageous, attention-grabbing pictures. (For more details cf. Hong Kong Journalists Association and ARTICLE 19 [eds.]: "Questionable Beginnings. A report on Freedom of Expression in the Hong Kong SAR one year after the change of sovereignty." In: ARTICLE 19 (1998), URL: http://www.hkja.org.hk/publications/rep98.html [accessed Nov. 11, 1998]). An on-line back issues archive is under construction. Note: Frames capable browser needed! _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L