An outspoken professor of constitutional law has resigned his post in the university after being investigated by police and received death threat for his comments about the Malaysian constitutional monarchy. “I have decided to resign due to the...
A crowd of 200 royalists staged a protest at the United States Embassy in Bangkok on 16 December, accusing it of interfering in domestic affairs. Protesters criticised Ambassador Kristie Kennie for her comments on recent lese majeste prosecutions,...
Chinese state media reported on Friday that human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng will be sent to prison for three years for violating his probation rules. In 2006 Gao was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for "subversion of state power", being...
Despite mounting public criticism on lèse-majesté, Thailand's Criminal Court sentenced Red shirt activist Daranee Charncherngsilapakul, widely known as "Da Torpedo", to 15 years in jail for three offences after rejecting her appeal. She was...
Is China’s foreign policy shaped by national public opinion or is the government shaping public opinion to justify its foreign policy? An interesting new analysis by the Brookings Institute has it that the government is manipulating nationalist...
An urgent appeal from Chinese writer Yan Lianke to the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Prime Minister Esteemed General Secretary and Prime Minister: I am a writer and a university professor. Before deciding to write...
The new boss of CCTV, China’s state TV network, Hu Zhanfan, says it like it is. He believes Chinese journalists should first and foremost be the Chinese government’s mouthpiece and those that don’t play ball won’t go far. “The first social...
China has blocked the website of an iPad magazine called Sun Affairs edited by media rebels Chang Ping and Wen Yunchao. The site has lost its mainland audience. To the government, Chang has form. Earlier this year his controversial commentary got...
An outspoken Malaysian professor of constitutional law, is considering resigning from his post in the university in the midst of on-going police investigation on his comments about the purview of the constitutional monarchy. He has also received a...
A TV journalist in Pakistan was shot and critically injured during a riot on Sunday. Ehsan Kohati, a senior reporter for the Waqt News TV channel was wounded in the chest and abdomen whilst reporting at a rally than turned violent in Karachi on...