This year, Massoud Hossaini became the first individual Afghan journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Hossaini’s photograph --- a little girl crying in...
The fragile gains of Afghan journalism
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Pakistan: Television station attacked
The Karachi offices of Pakistani television station Aaj news and English-language daily Business Recorder were attacked on 25 June. Four men...
China: Hong Kong journalists complain about editor’s self-censorship
A prominent Hong Kong newspaper has been criticised for self censorship by members of its staff. Journalists at the South China Morning Post have...
Bangladesh: Journalist murdered
A journalist has been hacked to death in Bangladesh after reporting on a local drug syndicate. Jamal Uddin from Banglore daily Gramer Kagoj was...
Zunar: No government ban can stop my cartooning
Although the political situation in Malaysia has been very tense since 1998, now the majority of Malaysians are beginning to show defiance against...
Chinese delegation pull out of Sheffield Doc/Fest after organisers refuse to censor programme
The Chinese delegation of commissioning editors has pulled out of the Sheffield Documentary Festival due to the screening of a film about artist Ai...
Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Europe for first time in 24 years
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in Geneva today for the start of a 17-day tour of Europe, visiting the continent for the first...
My Shanghai next door neighbour is Chinese dissident Feng Zhenghu
This piece originally appeared on the Huffington Post and is cross-posted with the author's permission Just down the street from Fudan University,...
China: Dissident found dead
Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, who was jailed for over 22 years after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, was found dead in a hospital ward in...
China: Editor dismissed for online comments
The editor of a Chinese newspaper has been dismissed after posting comments online deemed critical of the government. Yu Chen, editor of the...
Pakistan: Journalist killed, house of another attacked
A local TV correspondent has been murdered in Pakistan, while another has had his house attacked. Abdul Qadir Hajizai, a correspondent for a...
China: Censors erase 13 minutes from ‘Men in Black 3’ to remove Chinese villains
China's film censors have erased 13 minutes of footage from the new Men in Black film to remove the appearance of Chinese villains. Beijing's...
