Media free to roam in China during 2008 Games

Foreign media will be free to travel around China and enjoy uncensored access to the Internet during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, organisers said on Wednesday. ‘We have no restrictions on travel for foreign journalists in China,’ Sun Weijia, BOCOG’s head of media operations, told the Olympic World Press Briefing on Wednesday. Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), said detailed new regulations on the operation of foreign media would be put into place early in 2007. Media services head Li Jingbo said the internet service provided to news services at the Games would be uncensored. Organisers also told the briefing that foreign media would have access to the Chinese team, although journalists would have to apply three weeks in advance to interview local Olympians before the Games. (Reuters, Yahoo News,September 28, 2006)

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