Kosuke Tsuneoka, a freelance Japanese journalist who has been missing since March 31, has been found imprisoned in the province of Baghlan, according to a local Afghan reporter on Sunday. The Afghan authorities say that they were not aware of...
Google has failed to renew its internet content provider licence in China, which expired at the end of March. This will not affect its Google.cn search engine, which has already redirected its traffic to servers in Hong Kong. Other services, such...
A publisher should not be held responsible for a libel created by the out-of-context publication of material by a search engine, the High Court has ruled. Even if a snippet has a libellous meaning neither the search engine nor the publisher should...
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Google's Security blog has revealed that a number of malicious malware attacks on Vietnamese computers have been specifically designed to spy on and target “blogs containing messages of political dissent”. Google described this example of internet...
The Chinese government has reportedly invested £4bn to expanding the nation’s news networks and media channels. Newspapers such as the China Daily are to be remodelled to resemble British broadsheets, and China Central Television (CCTV), the...
On Tuesday, after a High Court hearing, a ban was lifted on an exhibition by photographer Dr. Shahidul Alam. The exhibition, named “Crossfire”, contained a collection of photographs and displays regarding extrajudicial executions by the Bangladeshi...
A production of a new play about the British National Party and homophobia has been pulled from the stage in Dudley. Philip Ridley’s Moonfleece was due to be performed at the Mill Theatre - based in Daunton Community School - on Thursday, two days...
The World Association of Newpapers and News Publishers, the World Editors Forum, and the European Newspaper Publishers Association have called on the government to drop a proposal that would enable courts to jail journalists who failed to reveal...