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Magazine wins rare court ruling for Burma media

By AP News Wed, May 23, 2012 5:34PM UTC

YANGON, Burma (AP) — A private news magazine in Burma won a rare court victory Wednesday and will not have to reveal the name of a reporter who wrote about corruption at government ministries. “The Voice” weekly still faces a defamation suit over the article published in March. The initial

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Pakistan restores Twitter access after block

By AP News Mon, May 21, 2012 11:51AM UTC

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for much of Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials. The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen,

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The blocking and unblocking of Twitter in Pakistan

By Pakistan Voice Mon, May 21, 2012 5:29AM UTC

Hours after remaining blocked in Pakistan, the popular microblogging website Twitter was finally unblocked late on Sunday night on Prime Minster Yousuf Raza Gilani’s orders. Earlier on Sunday, the online social networking service was banned in Pakistan by the country’s Ministry of Information Technology because “it failed to respond and take

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Thailand: Preliminary court date set in case of slain photographer Fabio Polenghi

By Siam Voices Thu, May 17, 2012 10:57PM UTC

By Lisa Gardner Eyewitnesses have come forward in the case of slain Italian photographer Fabio Polenghi, his sister said today, ensuring that his case will be heard before Thai courts. On May 19, 2010, during street violence which would claim some 91 lives, the freelance photographer was killed as he ran

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International news and Malaysia’s censors

By Asia Sentinel Thu, May 17, 2012 7:43PM UTC

'Anwar Ibrahim', an objectionable keyword. Pic: AP.

Five-minute time lag allows extra bits to be snipped out to preserve ‘sensibilities’, reports Asia Sentinel’s John Berthelsen In Malaysia, the international television news you watch may not be the same television news watched across the rest of the world. It appears that the major broadcast networks beamed into the

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