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WOLRD PRESS FREEDOM INDEX 2010 -
Oct 21, 2010 - 12:17:33 AM
Asian Communist regimes still hold the lowest rankings
Asia��s four Communist regimes, North Korea (177th place), China (171st), Vietnam (165th) Laos (168th), are among the fifteen lowest-ranked countries of the 2010 World Press Freedom Index. Ranked just one place behind Eritrea, hellish totalitarian North Korea has shown no improvement. To the contrary: in a succession framework set up by Kim Jong-il in favour of his son, crackdowns have become even harsher. China, despite its dynamic media and Internet, remains in a low position because of non-stop censorship and repression, notably in Tibet and Xinjiang. In Laos, it is not so much repression which plagues this country of Southeast Asia as its single party��s political control over the whole media. On the other hand, Vietnam��s Communist Party �C soon to hold its own Congress �C and its open season against freedom of speech is responsible for its worse than mediocre ranking.Among the last thirty countries of Reporters Without Borders�� Index are ten Asian nations, notably Burma, where the military junta have decided that the prior censorship system will be maintained despite the upcoming general elections in November.
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CHINA - Hope Nobel Free speech activist Liu Xiaobo awarded Nobel Peace Prize -
Oct 9, 2010 - 9:05:36 PM
Reporters Without Borders is deeply moved by the award of this year�s Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese intellectual Liu Xiaobo. This decision by Norway�s Nobel Committee is a gesture of historic significance for China�s free speech movement. We see it as a message of hope for the laureate, who is serving an 11-year jail sentence, for detained dissidents all over the world, and for the Chinese people.