カテゴリー: Media
NDTV, one of the media groups willing to criticise Narendra Modi’s government, faces hostile takeover by country’s richest manIndia richest man, Gautam Adani, has launched a hostile takeover of the country’s popular NDTV television network in a deal th…
Democracy activist and Apple Daily founder will stand trial without jury and could face up to life in prisonThe founder of Apple Daily, Jimmy Lai, will stand trial without a jury in Hong Kong, after he told a court he would plead not guilty to national…
Last August, one Afghan reporter told how her life imploded when the militants took power. One year on, she tells of desperate months trying to evade capture and flee the countryThe day the Taliban entered my city last August, I started to receive rene…
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the countryThere is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s Phuket cafe that is always fully booked. Most of her customers at the Dibuk restaurant want to s…
Veteran journalist and Philippines’ first Nobel peace prize winner faces lengthy jail sentenceThe Filipino Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has lost her appeal against a conviction for cyber libel, her news website, Rappler, has said, in the latest…
The ‘kill’ order, which seeks to revoke the company’s certificates of incorporation, was made in the final days of Rodrigo Duterte’s ruleThe Philippine government is affirming a previous order to shut down the news website Rappler, according to its co-…
Journalists demand release of the co-founder of the fact-checking website Alt News after he was accused of insulting HindusDelhi police have arrested the Muslim co-founder of a fact-checking website, accusing him of insulting religious beliefs on Twitt…
Press crackdown continues as Japanese, US and Taiwanese reporters blocked from 1 July event, which is also 25th anniversary of British handoverHong Kong authorities have barred some local and international media from the inauguration of the new chief e…
Liza Begum said confusion with Apsana Begum who was acquitted of fraud charges ‘reflects notion all people of colour look the same’The BBC has agreed to pay £30,000 in damages to a British Bangladeshi Labour councillor after it mixed her up with Apsana…
Beijing’s foreign minister signing bilateral deals with leaders but reporters are blocked, sometimes physically, from asking questionsJournalists covering the Chinese foreign minister’s tour of the Pacific say they have been blocked from filming or acc…
Group who worked with UK media to sue government over failure to relocate them to BritainA group of Afghan journalists who worked closely with the UK media for years have revealed how they face beatings, death threats and months in hiding, and accuse t…
#FreeHerFace campaign gathers force as high-profile men rebel against crackdown on face coverings in AfghanistanMale TV presenters in Afghanistan are wearing face masks on screen to show solidarity after the Taliban issued an order that all women on ne…
Female anchors post pictures of themselves being ‘erased’ on orders of virtue and vice ministryAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air, the country’s biggest media outlet has said.The order came in…
Government crackdown has cleared market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned media sectorFree media in Hong Kong has been almost completely dismantled by the government crackdown, clearing the market for an expanded pro-Beijing and state-owned m…