Yellowbird’s legacy is a bright ray of light in the bleak Chinese political landscape, writes Melinda Liu.

FOREIGN journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square yesterday as police fanned out across the vast plaza ahead of today’s 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Foreign journalists were barred from Beijing’s Tiananmen Square today as an internet clampdown expanded on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.