Grisly beheading of teacher in terrorist attack rattles France
For the second time in three weeks, terror struck France, this time with the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in a street in a Paris suburb. The suspected attacker was shot and killed by police. French President Emmanuel Macron denounced what he called an ...
Brave new words hint at a less democratic future
As China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, its vocabulary of hurt national feelings and threat is turning up in the territory.
Two high-profile Australian journalists fled China overnight, fearing they faced arrest as political "pawns" and the latest victims of Beijing's targeted repression of foreign media. Their exit came following days of secret diplomatic wrangling between Beijing and Canberra, whose relationship is already at the lowest ...
Competing interests of labor unions laid bare at TV Asahi
When a company's workforce contains both journalists and news program workers, conflict can arise.
Hong Kong police sift the past to pursue new security law crimes
Hong Kong police are using the past words and deeds of government critics to bolster investigations under the city's sweeping new security law, despite the legislation not being retroactive. The law, described by China as a "sword" hanging over the heads of its pro-democracy opponents, ...
As China hits Jimmy Lai, a bitter tabloid feud may lead to jail
Even as Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai looks to defend himself against possible charges under China’s national security law, a long-running feud with a rival tabloid may see him end up in jail. Lai’s trial for "criminal intimidation” in 2017 of a reporter from ...
Digital attacks raise fears over press freedoms in Indonesia
A spate of hacking attacks on Indonesian media that published articles critical of the government's response to the coronavirus has raised concerns over press freedom, the country's leading journalists' association said on Monday. At least four media organizations have been targeted in unprecedented digital attacks, ...
The publishing empire helping China silence dissent in Hong Kong
When Hong Kong’s richest tycoons declared their support for the city’s national security law in June, it wasn’t what they said that stood out as much as how they said it. One by one, the financial hub’s most prominent capitalists — from Li Ka-shing to ...
Pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai freed on bail amid Hong Kong crackdown
Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai walked free on bail Wednesday, over 40 hours after he and other critics of China were rounded up by police as part of a widening crackdown on dissent. When Lai left a police station he was swarmed by ...
Hong Kong's Apple Daily vows to 'fight on' after owner arrested
Hong Kong's Apple Daily tabloid responded with defiance on Tuesday to the arrest of owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law imposed by Beijing, promising to "fight on" in a front-page headline over an image of Lai in handcuffs. Readers queued from the ...
Media tycoon’s arrest sends warning to Hong Kong’s free press
Right before China retook control of Hong Kong in 1997, tycoon Jimmy Lai started Apple Daily in part to promote democracy in the city. For 25 years, the newspaper survived advertising boycotts and political pressure, but never backed off its tough coverage of the ...
Al-Jazeera says Malaysia rejected visas for Australian staffers
Broadcaster Al-Jazeera said Thursday that Malaysian authorities have refused to renew the work visas of two of its Australian journalists, just days after the network's Kuala Lumpur office was raided by police. The Qatar-based network is being investigated by officials over its "Locked up in ...
