Journalists working in China will now be required to undergo training in Marxist and communist theories of news. The General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) revealed that it will launch a new certification that will encourage...
Baris Yarkadas, editor of online newspaper Gercek Gündem, faces five years in jail for failing to remove a comment posted on his website insulting President Gül. The comment, written by an anonymous reader, accused President Gül of allowing his...
A prominent independent Rwandan reporter is missing amid concerns that security forces are cracking down on dissenters. The Ugandan news agency 256news.com has expressed concern that its correspondent Godwin Agaba has been arrested or disappeared...
Reporters Without Borders has named Burma, China, North Korea and Vietnam as among the worst violators of freedom of expression on the internet. The Enemies of the Internet 2010 report claimed that governments in these countries are either...
The Cambodian government has used “threats, intimidation and legal action” to reduce the quantity of independent media reporting in the country, a new report has claimed. According to Reporters Without Borders, the governing Cambodian People’s...
A new report has claimed that the Mongolian government routinely uses defamation legislation against journalists exposing corruption or abuses of power. Globe International conducted a study into 215 journalists working in the world’s most sparsely...
The Sri Lankan Attorney General has assured exiled journalists that they will not be prosecuted if they return to the country. Mohan Peiris said that he will offer protection to any of the nation’s reporters that left the country after the disputed...
UK-based Russian businessman Boris Berezovky has been awarded £150,000 by the high court in a libel case against Russian TV channel RTR Planeta, which claimed he was complicit in the death of Alexander Litvinenko. RTR Planeta boycotted the trial....
On March 4, a reporter and camera operator for Milenio Televisión were kidnapped in Reynosa, Tamaulipas state (northeastern Mexico) while covering a wave of violence caused by a dispute between two of the regions rival drug trafficking groups. The...
Burma’s junta has set out laws governing the general election promised later this year, the new rules underline fears the vote is intended to consolidate military power under a democratic façade. The country’s state-run newspapers today published...