BEIJING (Reuters) - A Hong Kong book publisher has been forced to halt the much-awaited publication of former Chinese premier Li Peng's memoirs of controversial events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
About 20,000 Chinese-language copies of "The Tiananmen Diary of Li Peng" had initially been scheduled to go on sale in Hong Kong on June 22, but Bao Pu, of New Century Press, stopped the presses on Friday because he did not have copyright ownership.
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