Vietnam’s government keeps cultural activities from web comics to concerts under its watchful eye, for sex as much as sedition. Helen Clark reports
Inept or clever? Vietnam’s censors keep everyone guessing
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
India challenges cyber governance and security
Just days before the United Nation’s led Internet Governance Forum in Indonesia, India, held its own – and first of its kind – conference on cyber governance and cyber security, Mahima Kaul writes
Shooting the messenger for reporting on Pakistan’s minority issues
Pakistani journalists who report on the victimisation of Ahmadis, Christians or Hindus are likely to become victims themselves, writes Zofeen Ebrahim
Targeting of Ahmadis continues in Pakistan
Police in Lahore stopped an Ahmadi man from performing a ritual sacrifice because Pakistan does not recognise the community as Muslim, Zofeen Ebrahim writes
Pakistan’s gay website ban reflects bigotry
Pakistan’s move to ban access to a gay website reflects the conservative society’s inability to accept a “larger world view”, activists say, Zofeen Ebrahim writes
Egypt borrows a page from China’s media strategy
Government crackdowns on free expression in China and Egypt have shown disturbing similarities with repressive tactics used by the two regimes to silence dissent, Shahira Amin writes
Proposed app ban sparks outrage in Pakistan
Sindh province announced last week it would ban mobile messaging apps like Viber, Whatsapp and Skype for three months. Zofeen T. Ebrahim investigates the fallout
Social media becomes the scapegoat in India
The regulation of social media in India has been a subject of great controversy, Mahima Kaul writes
An open letter from Pakistan to the chief of the NSA
Who will rid Pakistan of the west’s Weapons of Mass Surveillance, asks Sana Saleem
India: Right to information and privacy ‘two sides of the same coin’
India’s Right To Information act is being challenged by questions of privacy protection, Mahima Kaul reports