[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: China eases state secrets control

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Although information has become more readily available in recent years, China has a track record of imposing news blackouts on accidents and disasters. 

It remains unclear whether Beijing will start retroactively revising death tolls from such events as the famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s, in which millions of people are believed to have died. 



** China eases state secrets control **
China says it will no longer treat death tolls in natural disasters as a state secret, in a move to be more open.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/asia-pacific/4237120.stm >


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