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SINGAPORE: Cyberspace Headed for More Control
SINGAPORE’S media industry has long been tightly controlled by the government. This is unlikely to change in 2019; in fact, new legislation is expected that could further curb press freedom and...
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VIETNAM: The Net as the New ‘Battlefield’
IT WOULD be almost impossible to discuss media freedom in Vietnam without first reviewing the country’s political situation over the past year. The unique Communist one-party system, combined with a...
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LAOS: Screws on Online Discourse Get Even Tighter
THE ABSENCE of independent media and shrinking civic space have effectively deprived the citizens of Laos of timely and qualitative information, including those that are critical in keeping them safe...
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TIMOR-LESTE: Still Feeling Pressed
TIMOR LESTE’S ranking in the latest press-freedom index of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) leaped by 11 places from the previous year, but those on the ground do not feel any improvement in the...
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INDONESIA: Political Reporting Can Do With Female Touch
THE ROUGH and tumble world of politics is supposed to be the territory of male journalists in Indonesia, but many of their female counterparts say they are not only being assigned to cover it, they...
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RICHARD JAVAD Heydarian, a resident commentator of GMA Network, has repeatedly pointed out that China has fooled the Philippines into giving up the South China Sea in exchange for unrealized capital....
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The ABC’s of Chinese State-Backed Finance, Foreign Direct Investments
The Overlap of Chinese Official Foreign Aid and Foreign Direct Investments WHEN PROVIDING Official Development Assistance or ODA, Western donors typically require the recipient states to adhere to...
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Where is China money going? Gambling, real estate, tours, big cities big winners
The biggest recipient of Chinese foreign direct investments in the Philippines these days is the online or offshore gambling industry. Since Duterte assumed the presidency, real-estate companies,...
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Inside a Chinese gambling entity: What happens, who works, how?
In the bustling offshore gambling industry in the Philippines today, a conservative estimate of 100,000 people work. About 90 percent of them are mainland Chinese. In this interview, a Chinese...
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