April 5, 2015 · Posted in: Access to Information, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, In the News, Media, Peace and Conflict
WE are reposting this article originally titled "Five journalists arrested in crackdown on independent media" published on the Reporters Without Borders website on March 31, 2015. Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of a total of five...
May 6, 2009 · Posted in: Cross Border, Free Expression - Asia, i Report Features, Media
AS THE world marks Press Freedom Week (3-9 May 2009), it is most fitting to review situations in Asia where that freedom remains an elusive dream. Burma is one such critical situation that we should all keep to heart. Forty-seven years ago in 1962, a...
January 17, 2009 · Posted in: Free Expression - Asia, Journalist Killings, Media
BARELY a month into the new year, the state of press freedom has further deteriorated in many parts of Asia. Of serious concern are the recent, brutal attacks on the independent media in South Asia, particularly in Sri Lanka where an independent TV...
