Budget 2018-19

  Malaysia has witnessed a remarkable fall in press freedom while China is still firmly anchored among the worst countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Paris-based RSF New Delhi, April 21: Malaysia has witnessed a remarkable fall in press freedom while China, which “continues to take Internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda to unprecedented levels”, is still firmly anchored among the worst countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index compiled by Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which provides information about the media freedom situation worldwide. The annual report published on Tuesday shows that journalism – “the main vaccine against disinformation” – is completely or partly blocked in 73 per cent of the 180 countries ranked by the organisation in the last 12 months. It said that the Covid-19 pandemic has been used as grounds to block access to information with the journalists finding it increasingly hard to investigate and report sensit...

  China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the Covid-19, is the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row, said a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists China, which has arrested several journalists for their coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, is the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row, according to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent press freedom advocacy organisation. According to its annual global survey, at least 274 journalists have been jailed on December 1, exceeding the high of 272 in 2016.”China, which arrested several journalists for their coverage of the pandemic, was the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row. It was followed by Turkey, which continues to try journalists free on parole and arrest new ones; Egypt, which went to great lengths to keep custody of journalists not convicted of any crime; and Saudi Arabia,” the report highlighted. The CPJ has pointed out tha...