Media News - Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Taiwan: Government eases rules on stationing of Chinese reporters

The Taiwanese government on Monday decided to lift the ban that prevented two of China's official media groups, the People's Daily and Xinhua news agency, from stationing reporters in the country. The period of stay granted to reporters with Chinese news outlets will be extended from a maximum of 30 days to three months, the same as the period China grants to Taiwanese reporters. 'We revoked the regulation to show our goodwill and to realize President Ma Ying-jeou's policy regarding the normalization of cross-strait press exchanges,' Government Information Office Minister Vanessa Shih said Monday. The former Democratic Progressive Party government (DPP) in April 2005 asked reporters of the two agencies to leave the country, saying 'The two media outlets only air opinions from the extreme side of Taiwan's political spectrum.' Despite the ban, journalists from the two news organizations were still permitted to visit the country, but were not granted the maximum one-month stay. Shih said that the government would further open the country to reporters from five Chinese local media outlets. Beijing allowed Taiwan media organizations to station reporters in China in 1993. (Taipei Times via Asia Media )

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