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Kiribati

Bureaucratic gag

Newspaper still awaiting publication licence after five months

Published on 19 June 2012Read

Burma

Tribute to veteran campaigner

Reporters Without Borders saddened by death of journalist Ludu Sein Win

Published on 18 June 2012Read

Bangladesh

Local reporter hacked to death after covering drug ring

Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist Jamal Uddin’s murder in Sharsha, a subdistrict of the southwestern district of Jessore, on 15 June. (...)

Published on 18 June 2012 Read

Burma

Burmese blogger and comedian finally collects Reporters Without Borders prize

Reporters Without Borders today finally had the pleasure of presenting Burmese blogger, comedian and actor Zarganar with the press freedom prize (...)

Published on 13 June 2012 Read

Afghanistan

News outlets prosecuted for reporting that Iran bribed parliamentarians

Reporters Without Borders is puzzled that the Media Offences Commission has decided to refer complaints against the Pajhwok Afghan News agency (...)

Published on 13 June 2012 Read

Burma

Media accused of biased coverage of unrest in Arakan state

A threat by Rangoon chief minister Myint Swe to prosecute news media that cover the current sectarian violence in the western state of Arakan in (...)

Published on 12 June 2012 Read

Cambodia

Broadcasters banned from reporting on local ballots

Reporters Without Borders deplores an information ministry ban on the retransmission by Cambodian stations of Voice of America and Radio Free (...)

Published on 7 June 2012 Read

China

Beijing authorities step up censorship and repression in June

Reporters Without Borders is concerned by recent instances of Internet censorship in China which have led to the arrest of a blogger, the (...)

Published on 5 June 2012 Read

Maldives

Journalist in critical condition after attacker cuts his throat

Well-known freelance journalist and blogger Ismail “Hilath” Rasheed was stabbed in the neck near his Malé home today and was rushed in a critical (...)

Published on 5 June 2012 Read

China

23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen square massacre

Read in Chinese / 见中文ぶん Twenty-three years ago, on 4 June 1989 at about 5 am, Chinese army tanks rolled into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of (...)

Published on 1 June 2012 Read