カテゴリー: Media
The heir to the Chrysanthemum throne lashes out at criticism of Mako’s marriage to a commonerPrince Akishino, the first in line to the Japanese throne, has lambasted the country’s media for their treatment of his eldest daughter, Mako, accusing them of…
Streaming channel went live this month, but without an episode in which the family visit ChinaAn episode of the Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is absent from Disney’s streaming channel in Hong Kong, at a time when …
More than 250 newspapers, radio and TV stations have closed in first 100 days of militants’ ruleThe romantic serials have gone after the Taliban warned against racy content, the popular women’s call-in shows were axed after the militants said they didn…
Sharbat Gula left Afghanistan after Taliban takeover that followed US departure from countryNational Geographic magazine’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the west’s evacuation of Afghans after the Taliban takeover of the…
Journalists asked to wear a hijab and broadcasters told to stop showing dramas featuring female actorsAfghan journalists and rights activists have condemned “religious guidelines” issued by the Taliban that restrict the role of women in television, as …
Zhang Zhan’s former lawyer says authorities are sending message, as calls grow for release on medical groundsThe detention of Zhang Zhan, the Chinese journalist jailed after reporting on the Covid pandemic in Wuhan, is intended as a “warning to others”…
Official newspaper calls Truss ‘radical populist’ after her alleged row with Caroline Wilson over UK’s hard lineAn official Chinese newspaper has weighed in on an alleged spat between the British foreign secretary and the UK’s ambassador to China, sugg…
Limits on media workers has helped fuel tensions between Beijing and Washington for more than a yearChina and the US have agreed to ease restrictions on each other’s journalists amid a slight easing of tensions between the two sides.The official China …
Fenster’s employer says he is flying out of the country, days after he was sentenced to 11 years in jailThe US journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in military-ruled Myanmar, just days after a closed court sentenced him to 11 years in…
Fresh charges for Danny Fenster, arrested in May as part of crackdown by junta, carry maximum sentence of life in prisonMyanmar’s junta has charged a US journalist detained since May with sedition and terrorism, which carry a maximum sentence of life i…
Documentary-maker who captured East Timor atrocities on film and left behind his earlier career as a Blue Peter presenterThe documentary-maker Max Stahl, who has died of throat cancer aged 66, exposed the atrocities of the Indonesian government in East…
Taliban deny Morteza Samadi, 21, has been sentenced to death but family concerned for his safety after he was detained while covering women’s protests in HeratFears are growing for a photojournalist who has been detained by the Taliban for more than th…