Posts Tagged ‘press freedom

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...

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...

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...