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30-655: Chinese Daily News may refer to the following: The English subtitle of the World Journal , in North America. The former name of the United Daily , Sarawak Tribune ' s sister newspaper, in Malaysia. See also [ edit ] China Daily News (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

60-405: A policy change as requested and paid for the damage. Jamestown Foundation The Jamestown Foundation is a Washington, D.C. –based conservative defense policy think tank . Founded in 1984 as a platform to support Soviet defectors , its stated mission today is to inform and educate policy makers about events and trends, which it regards as being of current strategic importance to

90-768: A visual record of the Gulag system. In September 2009, the Jamestown Foundation transferred the Getman collection to The Heritage Foundation . In 2007, the Russian government said the think tank was spreading anti-Russian propaganda by hosting a debate on violence in the Russian republic of Ingushetia . According to a statement by the Foreign Ministry of Russia: "Organisers again and again resorted to deliberately spreading slander about

120-621: Is located in Whitestone, New York City, where it has since remained. The World Journal is one of three major Chinese-language dailies among the Chinese American community . The publication is owned by the same media conglomerate that runs the United Daily News in Taiwan and carries a significant Taiwanese American administrative presence. Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as hostile to

150-617: Is on China , Eurasia , Russia , and global terrorism . As of 2023, its main publications are China Brief , Eurasia Daily Monitor , Terrorism Monitor , and Militant Leadership Monitor . Previous publications included Eurasia Security Trends , Fortnight in Review , North Korea Review , Russia and Eurasia Review , Russia's Week , Spotlight on Terror , North Caucasus Weekly , (formerly Chechnya Weekly ) and Recent From Turkey and Terrorism Focus . Along with these publications, Jamestown produces occasional reports and books. Since 1990s

180-512: Is published in major cities in the United States with large overseas Chinese populations including New York as well as Los Angeles , and San Francisco . The publication is widely sold in many Chinatowns and major suburbs. Subscription is available in the United States and Canada . The newspaper was established simultaneously in New York and San Francisco on February 12, 1976. The headquarter

210-522: The Chinese democracy movement . Immediately after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 , the newspaper no longer referred indiscriminately to all mainland Chinese as "Communist Chinese", and additionally praised pro-democracy efforts on the mainland. During the mid-1990s, it began to give credit to the positive progress made in mainland China, and by the late-1990s, it began to criticize wrongdoings within

240-658: The Eastern Bloc in disseminating their ideas in the West. In the past, Jamestown's board of directors has included Zbigniew Brzezinski , former National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter . Jamestown's current board includes Michael Carpenter, the managing director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement . Carpenter previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and in

270-698: The Institute for Policy Studies for alleged links to the CIA and for advancing a right-wing, neoconservative agenda. In 2020, the office of the Prosecutor-General of Russia said that Jamestown Foundation's publications sought to fan separatism in some Russian regions and posed a security threat. It described the Foundation as an "undesirable organisation", which could result in the organization being banned in Russia under

300-513: The People's Republic of China , in part because the paper referred to people from mainland China as "Communist Chinese". Furthermore, its coverage on mainland China usually comprised only one article or so each day out of dozens of pages and sections. However, the newspaper has changed since it began increasing its coverage of mainland China. Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre , such coverage increased to two pages per day. While

330-525: The media in Russia ." On 8 December 2011, Ambassador Daniel Benjamin , State Department Counterterrorism Coordinator for the Obama administration , gave the keynote address at Jamestown's Fifth Annual Terrorism Conference where he praised Jamestown for its research and analysis of terrorism issues. The Jamestown Foundation was criticized by the Right Web project (now the "Militarist Monitor" project) based at

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360-499: The Chinese democracy movement and in the West in the same manner with which it criticizes corruption within the Chinese communist regime. After 2000, there has also been an increase in the representation of mainland Chinese immigrants on the newspaper's reporting staff, and the paper has published readers' letters voicing different views from the pro-Taiwan independence stance that have also made it popular among mainland Chinese immigrants to

390-475: The Foundation issued Prism : a monthly on the post-Soviet states. The foundation hosted Russian artist Nikolai Getman 's paintings of Gulag camps. Getman was imprisoned for eight years by the Soviet regime for participating in anti-Soviet propaganda as a result of a caricature of Joseph Stalin that one of his friends had drawn on a cigarette box. He survived, and for four decades he secretly labored at creating

420-554: The New York City-headquartered World Journal . On October 21, 2013, World Journal published a controversial article that allegedly discriminated against breastfeeding women. Titled "Breastfeeding photos embarrass Chinese-American to death", the article cited anonymous resources, labeled breastfeeding photos as "R-rated-photos", described those photos as "disturbing" and "disgusting." The article received strong reaction among Chinese American Community and

450-550: The San Francisco office acquiesced in part by burying the ads among the paper's least viewed pages. Conversely, Jason Q. Ng of China Digital Times and Citizen Lab considered World Journal in 2013 to be relatively critical of PRC policies. On January 10, 2007, a Southern California jury found the Monterey Park -based Chinese Daily News responsible for failing to give employees breaks, lunches, and overtime, and awarded

480-490: The Taiwanese Breastfeeding Association launched a protest against World Journal . Media Watch criticized that the report was "misleading" and "biased." It was also reported that World Journal allegedly failed to accommodate employees' legal nursing needs. Taiwanese American journalist and author To-wen Tseng blogged about her experience of being forced to pump her breast milk in a bathroom stall, and

510-438: The United States' relationship with Israel ), Thomas Kent, the former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ; Willy Wo-Lap Lam , a Hong Kong–based China specialist; Jacob Zenn, a leading expert on Boko Haram ; and Stephen Ulph, a leading expert on Jihadist ideology. In September 2023, Peter Mattis was named Jamestown president, succeeding Glen E. Howard, who served at the position for 20 years. Its primary focus

540-670: The United States. World Journal ceased publication in Canada on January 1, 2016, to better focus its business in the United States. According to a 2001 report by the Jamestown Foundation , World Journal was one of the four major Chinese newspapers found in the U.S. that "has recently begun bowing to pressure from the Beijing government." The other three which were Sing Tao Daily , Ming Pao Daily News , and The China Press had already been "either directly or indirectly controlled by

570-480: The United States. Jamestown publications focus on China , Russia , Eurasia , and global terrorism . The Jamestown Foundation was founded in 1984 after Arkady Shevchenko , the highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect when he left his position as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations , defected in 1978. William Geimer , an American lawyer, had been working closely with Shevchenko, and established

600-717: The White House as a foreign policy advisor to current President Joe Biden (when Biden was vice president under Barack Obama ) as well as on the National Security Council as Director for Russia. Jamestown's board also includes Michael G. Vickers , who previously served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and whose role at the Central Intelligence Agency during the Soviet–Afghan War

630-528: The district court level, Plaintiffs once again moved for class certification, and the district court recertified the class. Chinese Daily News thereafter filed a FRCP Rule 23(f) Petition to Appeal, which the Ninth Circuit granted on August 22, 2014. This matter is currently pending briefing at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. The Los Angeles area-based Chinese Daily News was later amalgamated into

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660-590: The foundation as a vehicle to promote the writings of the former Soviet diplomat and those of Ion Pacepa , a former top Romanian intelligence officer; with the help of the foundation, both defectors published bestselling books. Central Intelligence Agency Director William J. Casey helped back the formation of the Jamestown Foundation, agreeing with its complaints that the U.S. intelligence community did not provide sufficient funding for Soviet bloc defectors. The foundation, initially also dedicated to supporting Soviet dissidents, also aided defecting intellectuals from

690-406: The government of Mainland China". The report referenced an instance of self-censorship by World Journal in its efforts to develop business ties with Mainland China in which Chinese Consulates in both New York and San Francisco have pressured the paper ' s local offices to not publish ads related to Falun Gong . The New York office reportedly acquiesced in full and did not publish the ads, while

720-402: The paper still attempts to maintain an anti-communist stance, it has become increasingly sensitive to the tastes of its large Chinese immigrant readership which has grown since the 1990s with the expanded access to permanent resident green cards in the United States following the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. Another reason for the shift was rooted in the newspaper's sympathy to

750-553: The plaintiffs $ 2.5 million. The plaintiffs alleged that they worked over twelve hours per day, were not provided accurate pay statements, and were unfairly interfered with during unionization attempts. In 2001, the employees voted to join the Communication Workers of America , but the National Labor Relations Board vacated the union vote after finding that the election was tainted. Chinese Daily News appealed

780-456: The ruling in the district court, with proceedings held in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2011, after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Dukes v. Wal-Mart , the U.S. Supreme Court remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit for reconsideration in light of Dukes. On September 13, 2013, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal rejected the district court's grant of class certification under FRCP Rule 23(b)(3). Upon remand at

810-539: The situation in Chechnya and other republics of the Russian North Caucasus using the services of supporters of terrorists and pseudo-experts. Speakers were given carte blanche to spread extremist propaganda, incite ethnic and inter-religious discord." In response, Jamestown Foundation president Glen Howard said that Russia was "intimidated by the power of the free word and this goes against the state manipulation of

840-482: The title Chinese Daily News . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinese_Daily_News&oldid=383677461 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages World Journal World Journal

870-741: Was famously featured in George Crile 's 2003 book Charlie Wilson's War . As of 2021, the foundation's current board includes General Michael V. Hayden ; Bruce Hoffman ; Matthew Bryza ; Robert Spalding , who acted as an architect of US-China strategy while serving on the National Security Council in the Donald Trump administration; Michelle Van Cleave; Arthur Waldron ; and Timothy J. Keating , while Jamestown's fellows included Vladimir Socor ; Janusz Bugajski ; Paul Goble ; Michael Scheuer (who claims to have been fired for criticizing

900-419: Was harassed by colleagues for attempting to wash pumping accessories in the office kitchen. In November 2013, Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center submitted a lawyer's letter to World Journal , requesting a policy change and supervisor training regarding nursing employee's legal rights. The World Journal disputed the employee's claims, but agreed to settle the case. On August 25, 2014, World Journal made

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