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New Phnom Penh Post owner defends 'rocky start' amid concerns over press freedom
The new owner of Cambodia's beleaguered Phnom Penh Post on Friday denied links to the country's authoritarian government and defended a stormy takeover which saw journalists resign en masse over fears for editorial independence. The May 4 takeover of the English-language daily by Malaysian investor ...
Cambodia makes first arrest on charges of insulting monarchy
A Cambodian school director has become the first person to be arrested on charges of insulting the monarchy after posting comments on Facebook critical of the authoritarian government. The law protecting the monarchy was passed in February. Critics say it further erodes freedom of speech ...
A newspaper hailed as Cambodia's last independent English daily has been sold to a Malaysian investor with apparent business links to premier Hun Sen, rattling a journalist community that has been battered by the strongman ahead of elections. Bill Clough, the Australian publisher of the ...
A Chinese internet platform has given the British cartoon "Peppa Pig" the chop as state media lamented that the series had become a "subversive" icon for slackers and anti-social young people. At least 30,000 clips of "Peppa Pig," whose heroine is a playful bright pink ...
China has introduced a law making it potentially a criminal offense to defame or deny the deeds and spirit of the country's historic martyrs, state media said, the latest move to protect symbols of party and state. President Xi Jinping has ushered in a series ...
Vietnam activists question Facebook on suppressing dissent
Vietnamese human rights activists and independent media groups have written to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Inc.'s chief executive, questioning whether the social media platform was helping suppress dissent in the communist country. The letter, released on Tuesday by U.S.-based human rights group Viet Tan and signed ...
Shooter attacked YouTube for filtering her videos, went to gun range before assault: police
An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday. In a series of Persian and English-language ...
Feminist activists are preparing to sue China's biggest social media platforms for deleting their organization's account, the group's founder said Saturday. On March 8, International Women's Day, staffers operating the prolific Feminist Voices account on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform found it had been deleted. Weibo customer ...
Controlling the web a dream and nightmare
Authoritarian governments regulate what their citizens can see online. The U.S. lets tech companies make similar decisions.
No laughing matter: China regulator bans TV parodies amid content crackdown
China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua News Agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping. The decision comes after Xi cemented his power ...
China mobilizes mass viewings of film lauding Xi, restricts criticism
Citizens across China are being corralled into movie theaters to watch a propaganda film extolling the Communist Party and Xi Jinping as an intensifying personality cult around the 64-year-old president hits the big screen. The mass viewings by staffers from companies and government agencies have ...
China's move to end term limits for Xi blanketed in censorship
The day China's ruling Communist Party unveiled a proposal to allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely — as Mao Zedong did a generation ago — Ma Bo was so shaken he couldn't sleep. So Ma, a renowned writer, wrote a social media post urging ...
