Asian Media

A people movement in Malaysia is planning to boycott mainstream media as they tend to publish unbalanced and misleading stories. “We started the campaign on not to buy papers such as Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, Metro, News Strait Times, on Thursday 29 November 2007 because they publish misleading information and so unbalanced,” said head of the [...]

I JUST read from Koran Tempo that none of Malaysian newspapers put the photos of the recently biggest demonstration in decade of Malaysian political history. I don’t know whether this is a case of regime pressure, or an expression of nationality of the Malaysian press. Anybody could give me a clue?

Our deep condolesence to Kenji Nagai, Japanese photographer and reporter who was shot to death by military regime in Myanmar.

BAD news for every press freedom enthusiasts: The telecom regularity body of the government yesterday pulled the plugs on the transmission of CSB News, a satellite TV channel of Focus Multimedia Company, for ‘forgery’. A group of officials of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regularity Commission (BTRC) including three deputy directors and an assistant director accompanied by a number [...]

Classic but still. Cambodian reporter’s home set on fire as he wrotes about illegal logging in the country. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), Cambodian Association for the Protection of Journalists (CAPJ), International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), and International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) have all called for independent investigations and [...]