After backlash, Twitter now calls NPR — and BBC — ‘government-funded’
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES — Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labelling the US radio network NPR as “state-affiliated media”…
India lashes out at critics after BBC raids
India’s foreign minister on Saturday hit out at “scaremongering” critics who claim the country’s democracy is being corroded, singling out…
BBC tax raids put India press freedom in spotlight
by Maryke Vermaak, with Aishwarya Kumar in Bengaluru NEW DELHI, INDIA — Just weeks after the BBC aired a documentary…
Tax raids at BBC India offices enter second day
NEW DELHI, INDIA — Indian tax department raids at BBC offices entered a second day Wednesday, journalists at the broadcaster…
Forum Asia calls for India to revoke arbitrary ban on BBC documentary
MUMBAI, INDIA — The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) expresses its strong condemnation towards the Indian government’s…
BBC documentary: Modi behind violence against Muslims in 2002 Gujarat riots
INDIA — In 2002, when Narendra Modi, the present Indian PM, was the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat,…
BBC reporter leaves China, says ‘too risky to carry on’
A senior BBC correspondent said Wednesday he had left China, after facing legal threats and pressure from authorities over his…
BBC journalist freed in Myanmar as anti-coup protests roll on
A BBC journalist held in Myanmar has been freed, the broadcaster said on Monday, as demonstrators took to the streets…
BBC says its Burmese reporter missing in Myanmar
A Burmese journalist with the BBC’s Myanmar language service is ‘missing’ after being taken away by unidentified men on Friday, the media outlet said, voicing…
PM Lee says “globalisation has benefited everybody in Singapore” in interview with BBC Asia
Earlier on 2 March 2021, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (PM Lee) sat down for an interview with Karishma Vaswani,…