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- Asia Pacific, China, Media, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, US foreign policy, US news, World news
China asks US media to submit information about their work
AP, CBS, UPI and NPR asked to send government details of their operations in seven daysBeijing has asked four …
- Afghanistan, Global development, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, World news
Afghan government backtracks over rule forcing media to reveal sources
Amendments to country’s media law revoked after outcry from pressAn outcry by the Afghan press over amendments…
- Asia Pacific, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Philippines, Press freedom, World news
Trial of journalists to deliver ‘existential moment’ in Philippines
Editor of news website Rappler could face prison if convicted under ‘cyber libel’ lawA verdict will be issued …
- Asia Pacific, Fiji, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Pacific islands, Press freedom, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
Fijian military leader defends government’s right to ‘stifle’ press during Covid crisis
Concerns have also been raised about Vanuatu, where it is illegal to publish stories on coronavirus without go…
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Myanmar blocks hundreds of news sites and threatens editor with life in jail
Fears abuses may go unreported after journalist arrest under terrorism laws for interview with rebel group Ara…
- Asia Pacific, China, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, Time magazine, US news, Wall Street Journal, World news
China-US standoff escalates as Beijing expels major US media staff
New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post journalists among staff ordered to stop reporting and …
- Asia Pacific, China, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, US press and publishing, Wall Street Journal, World news
China to expel WSJ journalists over ‘malicious’ coronavirus column
Three journalists told to leave within five days after paper declined to apologise for opinion pieceCoronaviru…
- Asia Pacific, Media, Newspapers & magazines, Philippines, Press freedom, Rodrigo Duterte, World news
Philippines moves to strip biggest media group of its franchise
Action against ABS-CBN denounced as worst attack yet on press by Rodrigo DuterteActivists and media organisati…
- Asia Pacific, Media, Newspapers & magazines, Philippines, Press freedom, Rodrigo Duterte, World news
Philippines moves to strip biggest media group of its franchise
Action against ABS-CBN denounced as worst attack yet on press by Rodrigo DuterteActivists and media organisati…
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Swedish media calls for action against attacks from Chinese officials
Media body says journalists are denied visas, while editors receive stream of threatening emails and phone cal…
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Journalists in Nepal fight new threat to press freedom
Bills introduced by ruling Communist party will bring in heavy fines and the threat of jail to stifle debate, …
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Hong Kong protesters clash with riot police – in pictures
Riot police have swooped on pro-democracy activists trying to flee a university they had set ablaze in one of …
- Asia Pacific, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Pacific islands, Press freedom, South Pacific, Vanuatu, World news
‘Attack on the media’: Vanuatu newspaper boss has work visa refused
Dan McGarry believes visa was rejected because of his paper’s critical coverage of government The Vanuatu gove…
- Censorship, Imran Khan, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Pakistan, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, World news
‘Extreme fear and self-censorship’: media freedom under threat in Pakistan
Journalists face blanked-out articles, pulled funding and channel shutdown if they dare to criticise the state…
- Asia Pacific, China, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, US news, US press and publishing, Wall Street Journal, World news, Xi Jinping
China denies credentials to Wall Street Journal reporter
Chun Han Wong, who covered Xi Jinping extensively, is in effect expelled from countryChinese authorities have …