カテゴリー: Media
Bi Haibo of the Chinese embassy in the UK responds to a Guardian editorial about the trial of the media mogul and pro-democracy activistYour editorial (The Guardian view on Jimmy Lai: this sham trial is another bleak day for Hong Kong, 18 December) cla…
Hong Kong media mogul’s team raises concerns over testimony of former democracy activist who was imprisoned in ChinaThe international legal team for the imprisoned media mogul Jimmy Lai, who is on trial for national security offences in Hong Kong, has …
Territory’s global reputation on the line as media mogul and democracy activist finally tried over alleged national security crimesHong Kong’s global reputation will be tested this week when the long-delayed trial of the pro-democracy activist and form…
Newspaper tycoon’s son seeks meeting with foreign secretary as Briton, 76, faces trial and possible life sentenceForeign secretary David Cameron is being urged to demand the release of newspaper tycoon Jimmy Lai as the British national prepares for a h…
Fahad Shah, whose case was a symbol of harassment of region’s media, says he has different outlook after months behind barsDuring his more than 600 days behind bars, Fahad Shah, a Kashmiri journalist, had begun to lose hope that he would ever see freed…
Minnie Chan has reportedly been out of contact since travelling to Xiangshan Forum a month agoFriends and colleagues of a Hong Kong journalist have raised concerns after she failed to return from a defence and security forum in Beijing a month ago.Minn…
Killer of Juan Jumalon, 57, pretended to be a listener to enter home studio in Misamis Occidental provinceA radio anchor in the southern Philippines has been fatally shot by a man inside his studio in a brazen attack witnessed by people watching the pr…
Washington will look to partner with Pacific media sector, top official tells the Guardian China’s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsRegional media has emerged as a new front in the contest between the US and China in the Pacific, as W…
Search also carried out on office of news website under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from ChinaPolice have carried out early morning raids on a news portal office and the homes of almost 50 journalists, activists and comedians across Ind…
Censorship, data harvesting and purchases of foreign news outlets could lead to ‘sharp contraction’ of freedom of expressionChina is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, according t…
Women aiming to reach UK or Ireland realised lorry was heading in wrong direction and contacted BBC journalistSix women have been rescued from the back of a refrigerated lorry in France after a panicked text message to a BBC reporter set off a frantic …
Huang Xueqin, a feminist who was due to move to UK, and Wang Jianbing charged with ‘inciting subversion of state power’The trial of two prominent activists detained since 2021 has begun in secret in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, in a case that has att…
The dropping of charges against Ressa and Rappler, the news website she founded, is the latest legal victory for the Nobel laureate Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa has been acquitted of her final tax evasion charge in the latest legal victory for…