Whereas it is the purpose and goal of
this newspaper to independently foster
US-China
cultural and business harmony, we must
adhere to standards of publication that
are beyond
reproach.
PRINCIPLES. Our readers and
advertisers are relying on us to provide
information that they
believe is credible, accurate, timely
and relevant to achieving our stated
goals. To ensure that we
maintain these principles, we have
developed and adopted a set of
guidelines that will determine
whether or not material is suitable for
publication in the newspaper.
GUIDELINES. Material must always
meet the requirement of being credible,
accurate, timely
and relevant. It should not be
political, religious or focus on a
specific moral issue unless an
item is featured as a public service
announcement (PSA) and is identified as
such. We must
remain neutral in presenting articles
that may be of a controversial nature
and all such feature
articles must concentrate on presenting
factual information. This will apply to
all types of news
items regardless of which category,
excluding advertising, it may fall into.
REGULAR FEATURES. In every issue
we will devote a section to the
following categories:
business, culture, travel, language,
finance (investing), and local events.
As news warrants, there
could also be sections on Science &
Technology, Health, etc. We may also,
from time to time,
include articles that have a specific
human-interest angle that would warrant
publication. A
library of acceptable PSA’s should also
be created.
SOURCES OF ARTICLES. Although we
will strive to produce as much original
material as we
possibly can through the efforts of our
own staff writers, free-lance writers
and other types of
contributors, we will focus on articles
and material from all other sources of
news that may be
relevant to our newspaper. Since there
are hundreds of sources for such
information, we must be
constantly reviewing these sources for
material we can reproduce. This is
actually a service we
provide our readers since it is
impossible for anyone to read everything
that is being printed
about China and US cultural and business
matters. By our prudent selection of
articles from other
sources we can actually provide many
more perspectives about what is going on
in these areas.
Naturally proper releases must be
obtained from these sources before we
can reprint such
articles.
PRESS RELEASES. We will apply
the same policy to all press releases
submitted with the
additional criteria that they be limited
to the degree that they are self-serving
to any one
individual, group or business. Items
received from non-profit entities will
be granted a little more
latitude.