Continuing our series of articles from Index on Censorship's 'Made In China' issue, Rebecca MacKinnon discusses how online pioneers are changing Chinese culture Read article here (pdf)
Countdown to Beijing, part 3
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CATEGORY: Asia and Pacific
Editor receives death threat over cartoon
Najam Sethi, chief editor of Pakistan's Daily Times, received death threats from militant group the Islamic Taliban Movement for publishing a cartoon in one of the paper’s sister publications, Aaj Kal. The cartoon depicted the leader of a radical...
Speech control
The Burmese authorities are employing new tactics in their control of information, reports Nem Davies In the wake of the saffron revolution and continuing with its policy of 'counter media with media', the junta is now intensifying its...
Arrests in China
Huang Qi was arrested on 10 July for ‘illegal possession of state secrets’. He posted articles criticising the way relief was organised after the 12 May earthquake in Sichuan. ‘Few citizens trust the government because of the corruptions scandals...
Countdown to Beijing part 2
In the run up to the Olympics, Indexoncensorship.org is publishing a selection of pieces from the current issue of the magazine:Made in China. Yan Lianke, China's leading, satirical novelist, writes exclusively for Index about the impact of...
Life on the frontline
Reporting from Pakistan’s tribal areas is getting more and more hazardous, says Haq Nawaz Khan Free, fair and fearless reporting for Pakistani journalists living in the war-ravaged tribal areas bordering Afghanistan is almost an impossible task....
Blogging: a hazardous business
Online criticism of politicians is not tolerated in Singapore, writes David Jardine Singapore, long known for what is sometimes described as ‘soft authoritarianism’ is a dangerous place in which to post dissident blogs. The latest person to...
Malaysia: opportunism behind ban?
What seems like a religious injunction is actually a piece of political censorship, writes David Jardine A peculiar consequence of Malaysia’s major election upset in March has emerged, with serious implications for freedom of expression. The...
Hidden message
The Burmese authorities have arrested the poet Saw Wai, after realising that one of his love poems contained a hidden message criticising Burma's military leader. The poem was published in a popular magazine in Rangoon. The first words of each line...
Geo back on air
Pakistan’s popular television news channel, Geo, resumed broadcasting on 21 January, after two months off air. Independent news networks had been prevented from broadcasting after President Musharraf declared a state of emergency last November, but...