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BBC journalist barred from leaving Vietnam and interrogated repeatedly
BBC ‘deeply concerned’ for journalist’s wellbeing after Vietnamese police withhold their ID card and passportV…
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BBC launches satellite news channel in Myanmar after Trump silences VOA
Corporation responds to ‘urgent need’ following earthquake by taking over Voice of America’s former channelThe…
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Kabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK government
Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures‘…
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North Korean TV censors BBC presenter’s jeans to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’ – video
His calm demeanour and wholesome vocation have apparently endeared him to one of the most authoritarian regime…
- Alan Titchmarsh, Asia Pacific, BBC, Censorship, Culture, Fashion, Kim Jong-un, Life and style, North Korea, Television & radio, World news
Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans blurred by North Korean TV censors
Footage of green-fingered BBC presenter obscured from waist down to hide ‘symbol of US imperialism’His calm de…
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Six women rescued from back of lorry in France after texts to reporter
Women aiming to reach UK or Ireland realised lorry was heading in wrong direction and contacted BBC journalist…
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Indian court issues BBC with summons over Modi documentary, say reports
Documentary questioned Indian prime minister’s leadership during 2002 Gujarat riotsThe high court in Delhi has…
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Indian government agency investigates BBC over foreign exchange rules
Inquiry comes after tax raid on corporation’s offices and a documentary that was critical of PM Narendra ModiI…
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Twitter accused of censorship in India as it blocks Modi critics
Canadian politician, poet, an India MP and journalists are among 120 accounts that have been withheldTwitter h…
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Tax raids on BBC offices in India ‘deeply worrying’, says Labour
Ministers say they have raised New Delhi and Mumbai raids with their Indian counterpartsLabour has condemned r…
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India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. Narendra Modi’s brazen attacks are a catastrophe | Kenan Malik
The prime minister’s cynical raids on the BBC are the latest populist clampdown on a press and broadcasting ‘e…
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Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business | Arundhati Roy
India’s prime minister and the billionaire Gautam Adani each benefited from the other’s rise – now their relat…
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Indian journalists say BBC raid part of drive to intimidate media
Media staff targeted for criticising BJP government fear tax raid is escalation of coercion“Did BBC Take Cash …
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India accuses BBC of tax evasion amid Modi documentary row
Country’s finance ministry claims broadcaster has not fully declared its income and profitsIndia’s finance min…
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Tax raids at BBC offices in India enter second day
Searches in offices in Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the release of BBC documentary critical of prime mini…