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May 27, 2010
Thailand extends censorship against anti-govt protesters

Thailand's army chief Anupong Paochinda signed an order this week to ban three newspapers and one magazine associated with the "red-shirt" protesters at the centre of the worst rioting in modern Thai history last week.

May 8, 2010
Thailand censors more websites as protests persist

The government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is fighting a battle on at least two major fronts against protesters seeking its ouster. On the streets, a massive force of soldiers and police has only managed to battle them to a standstill. In cyberspace, the authorities have fared little better, despite efforts to block dissenting voices with the threat of lengthy prison terms.

April 26, 2010
Garden of Freedoms

It is hard to imagine a “Better city – Better life” in a country that censors the Internet and jails human rights activists on such a wide scale as China. The Expo 2010 Shanghai slogan is meaningless when a government imposes so many curbs on its citizens’ freedom of expression.

March 25, 2010
China - After Google, another US Internet company decides to limit its services in China

US Internet company GoDaddy announced during a US congressional hearing yesterday that it will stop selling websites with Chinese domain names (those ending in the .cn suffix) because of the radical controls being demanded by the Chinese authorities.

March 25, 2010
Rep. Smith sees Google's China decision as boost for human rights

In a congressional statement on Wednesday, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) praised the internet company Google for its decision to stop censoring search results for requests from China.

March 11, 2010
Rights group puts Australia on internet watchlist

A TOP media rights watchdog has listed Australia along with Iran and North Korea in a report on countries that pose a threat of internet censorship.

March 10, 2010
VIETNAM: Human rights lawyer and blogger arrested just three days after completing jail term

Reporters Without Borders condemns the way the authorities are treating human rights lawyer and blogger Le Thi Cong Nhan, who was detained for three hours yesterday, just three days after she was released on completing a three-year jail sentence.