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Foreign Correspondent’s Club’s decision sparks outrage from journalists and resignations from press freedom committeeHong Kong’s Foreign Correspondent’s Club has scrapped its annual human rights press awards just days before it was due to announce winn…
Terry Xu was convicted last year after publishing a letter alleging ‘corruption at the highest echelons’The editor of a now-closed Singaporean news outlet has been jailed for three weeks for defamation over a letter published on the site that alleged …
Women signing up to a groundbreaking digital journalism school follow a four-week course on their mobile phonesHolding her phone at arm’s length, a crowd gathered behind her, Amreen Khan speaks into the camera. “Today, I am in Chandpura village,” she s…
Residents express dismay online about tribute to city’s handling of outbreak after extended lockdown A state-owned TV station in Shanghai has postponed a show that highlights the positive sides of the city’s response to an Omicron outbreak after an onl…
Reporter and lecturer’s arrest in dawn raid another blow to city’s press amid Beijing crackdownA veteran Hong Kong journalist has been arrested by national security police for allegedly conspiring to publish “seditious materials”, a police source and l…
A cyber monitoring group says Chinese sources are amplifying disinformation about Ukrainian ‘nazism’Russia-Ukraine war: latest updatesClose ties between Russian and Chinese state media along with strict government control of information have allowed Ru…
Canberra protests as court verdict deferred after closed-door, one-day trialGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingA Chinese court has deferred its verdict after the closed-door national security trial of the Australian journalist Cheng L…
Rana Ayyub, a columnist for the Washington Post, was not allowed to board a flight at Mumbai airport on TuesdayA prominent Indian journalist has been prevented from flying to Europe to speak about intimidation of journalists and rights in the world’s l…
Afghans have been fighting since the 70s for the same reason Ukrainians are fighting but they have been neglected and betrayedGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingIt took the international community two long decades of sacrifices with b…
Lu Yuguang of Chinese news outlet Phoenix TV appears to have gained exclusive access to Moscow’s side of the invasion of UkraineRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesIn a flak jacket and helmet, the Chinese reporter Lu Yuguang stands on the side of a road …
My friend Hashir Faruqi, who has died aged 92, was a scientist of Pakistani heritage who found his vocation as a journalist and community activist after settling in London in the early 1960s.He launched the bi-monthly Impact International magazine in 1…
Venezuela says Putin is a victim, China blames the US, and a South African pundit calls out western hypocrisyRussia-Ukraine war: latest updatesMany an insult has been hurled at Vladimir Putin since he invaded Ukraine a fortnight ago, causing chaos, hea…
As the last western media journalist covering Myanmar I knew danger lurked – and there would be no James Bond to get me outOne hot morning last March I walked into Yangon’s St Mary’s Cathedral as the best man at a wedding. The European-Burmese couple h…
Jia Qingguo claims the proliferation of misinformation online has fuelled tensions between China and foreign countriesAn adviser to the Chinese government has called for new laws to ban “fabricating and disseminating fake information online”, blaming t…
Now a refugee in the UK, Joya and the Rukhshana Media agency defied threats to report on life for women under the TalibanThe Afghan journalist Zahra Joya has been named as one of Time’s women of the year 2022 for her reporting of women’s lives in Afgha…