Asia - Reporters Without Borders

Home page - Asia

Vietnam

Unjustified trial

Two citizen journalists facing jail sentences for operating pirate radio

Published on 5 October 2011Read

Bangladesh

Wave of violence

Media freedom threatened by wave of violence and harassment

Published on 4 October 2011Read

Vietnam

Blogger Lu Van Bay serving four-year sentence

Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing detention of Lu Van Bay, a blogger who was sentenced on 22 August to four years in prison and (...)

Published on 26 September 2011 Read

Thailand

Reporter dies from burn injuries in far-south bombings

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that local reporter Phamon Phonphanit died on 24 September from the burns he sustained in a series (...)

Published on 26 September 2011 Read

China

Chinese arrest South Korean journalists near North Korean border

Reporters Without Borders is worried to learn that the Chinese authorities are holding a group of journalists from the South Korean daily (...)

Published on 25 September 2011 Read

Afghanistan

Cameraman dies from injuries during Taliban attack in Kabul a week ago

Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Farhad Taqaddosi, a cameraman working for the Iranian government’s English-language TV news (...)

Published on 21 September 2011 Read

Thailand

Was army responsible for fatal shooting of Japanese cameraman?

In a surprising U-turn, Department of Special Investigation chief Tharit Pengdit told Agence France Presse on 17 September that the army was (...)

Published on 21 September 2011 Read

China

Activists attacked while trying to visit human rights lawyer under house arrest

Five human rights activists and netizens were attacked by presumed police auxiliaries on the night of 18 September while trying to visit human (...)

Published on 20 September 2011 Read

China

Journalist murdered while covering illegal cooking oil scandal

Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang, a journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern province of Henan) (...)

Published on 20 September 2011 Read