But the public response, and that of more liberal-minded Chinese newspapers, prompted a change of attitude.
The approaching Chinese New Year holiday is the biggest focus in Friday's Chinese newspapers.
Beyond that, Chinese newspapers report that a broad restructuring is in the offing, which would reorganise the industry into four state-controlled giants.
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Chinese newspapers often tell of gamblers who choose this path in order to save their families the hardship of paying back debts.
Chinese newspapers devote extensive coverage to the 40th anniversary of the so-called ping-pong diplomacy that paved the way for Washington's recognition of the Communist regime in Beijing.
In early March 11 Chinese newspapers (it would have been 13, had not two bottled out) defied party strictures and teamed together to publish an extraordinary joint editorial.
Chinese newspapers and television were barred from reporting the trials.
Chinese newspapers and television have dutifully portrayed him as the skilful statesman, the esteemed guest of the British royal family, with famous westerners such as Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac in awed attendance.
Among other reactions, Chinese newspapers suggested that some government ministries were withdrawing official support of Windows in favor of the Linux operating system, touted as having an outside chance of causing trouble for Windows in developing-country markets.
There are scores of Chinese-language newspapers and a handful of English-language dailies.
Indeed, even while Chrysler was being repulsed in the magazine world, a marketing man seemed to be driving a bulldozer through the Chinese wall in newspapers.
Less than a generation ago, Chinese villagers crowded around newspapers pasted to walls in the center of town to read the latest news.
Turning to international news, state television and major newspapers say the Chinese foreign ministry supports a "prudent" and "moderate" UN Security Council response to North Korea amid its threats to nullify a 1953 cease-fire that ended the Korean War.
In recent weeks some Chinese intellectuals as well as official newspapers have engaged in heated debate about the dangers of populism.
The Russian and Chinese veto of the UN draft resolution on Syria is condemned in the Arab, Turkish, Israeli and even Russian press, finding support only in the official Syrian and Chinese media and pro-government newspapers in Syria's ally, Iran.
Newspapers report on talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh, as tension over the South China Sea disputes continues.
Walking along Liberty Plaza in lower Manhattan is a guy in a knit hat carrying a large Chinese flag and a handful of China Daily newspapers.
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The Chinese are creating TV networks, pouring millions into English-language newspapers, leasing radio stations on all continents and broadcasting TV news to a worldwide audience in six languages.
The presses had already rolled for almost all of the newspapers coming out the next morning the last before the Chinese New Year when Hong Kong in effect shuts down for a few days, and the talk around the dinner table turns for once to family matters as well as business.
Newspapers run extensive coverage of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to Chinese author Mo Yan.
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Some government controlled-newspapers harped on these differences Tuesday, with the daily Utusan Malaysia blaming ethnic-Chinese voters for abandoning the National Front and reducing its number of seats in the 222-member parliament to 133 from 140.
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