press freedom

The Australian government is reviewing press freedom protection after the police raided a journalist's home and a newsroom in June.

Journalists in the Philippines are speaking out against what they call a newly intensified effort by the Duterte administration to suppress press freedom.

Several groups held protests against continued cyberattacks which they claim are backed by the Duterte administration.

The Myanmar government's endorsement of a US 'anti-Rohingya supporter' marks a new low in the country's press freedom.

The situation for press and other freedoms is going from bad to worse in Cambodia ahead of elections set for July.

Their new owner, Malaysia-based ASIA PR, has close ties to Cambodia's ruling elite.

Vietnam suffers from heavily restricted access for journalists, cagey responses to questions, and zero interest from anyone involved in the government in talking to the press.

Myanmar-based Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo now face up to 14 years in prison.

From internet shutdowns to killings of journalists, clampdowns on internet freedoms are on the rise across the region.

In India, press freedoms and the journalists that defend them are feeling the squeeze from a government that is too close to major media.

Executives from the likes of Apple and Google do themselves as disservice in pandering to China's attempts to export its internet censorship blueprint.

Myanmar faces a range of human rights which needs a free press and activists who can operate peacefully without fear of repercussions.

China’s prisons currently hold more than 100 journalists, citizen-journalists and bloggers, including a Nobel peace laureate and three winners of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)-TV5 Monde Press Freedom Prize.

Taiwan has the freest press in Asia, but is this freedom put to good use?

‘If we want to guard ourselves against fake news, we’re going to have to do more to boost our bullshit detectors. That can’t be achieved by increasing criminalization and legal action.’

Two years in prison for reporting without license.

The underlying story in Asia is that most countries in the region are in a 'difficult situation' or a 'very serious situation,' according to the world's press freedom watchdog.

We all know how China treats its own journalists. But what about the CCP's critics outside China? More and more, it's going after them, too.