News and Press Releases

The English news program, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) was criticised by the Hong Kong government after a reporter asked a World Health...

The second post-mortem report of the slain journalist Aziz Memon indicates that he was murdered. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and...

Journalists union leaders in Pakistan have negotiated a Covid-19 relief package in Punjab which will ensure compensation for those who contract the...

Hundreds of media workers in Pakistan have been left jobless following the sudden closure of AAP news.

Sovann Rithy, the director of the TVFB news site, was arrested on the evening of Tuesday, April 7 for quoting Prime Minister Hun Sen who advised...

The House of Representatives is due to pass the revised Criminal Code, which has been widely criticised for violating press freedom and access to...

The Indonesian National Police have intensified social media monitoring in efforts to prevent the dissemination of false information and comments that...

A group of 37 national media unions from South Asia as well as global media advocacy and freedom of expression organisations today called for an end...

Jonathan Jalon, a reporter of eMedia Production Network Inc., was asked by security personnel in the Zamboanga City Hall when he was about to cover a...

Four men accused of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002 were rearrested on April 4, a day after a court...

A Kathmandu Press article highlighting an alleged scam involving high level government employee and the sons of the defence minister and the prime...

The Australian government’s proposed $130 billion “JobKeeper” package falls short of supporting freelancers and non-permanent media workers. The...

Nation Multimedia Group (NMG), one of Thailand’s largest media companies cut employees’ salaries on April 1 citing the Covid-19 business downturn....

As the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic under widespread lockdowns and the mass movement of work into an online space, the International Federation...

Sajid Hussain, a Pakistani journalist granted political asylum in Sweden in 2017, is reported as missing. The International Federation of Journalists...

The Supreme Court of India ordered media to only refer to, publish and broadcast the official version of the information on the health crisis, citing...