Singapore relaxes rules on free speech
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Singapore&#39;s new Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced an easing of restrictions on free speech in the tightly controlled island nation on Sunday.
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Text of report by Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post website on 7 September  Citizens' Radio will resume broadcasting in defiance of the law, chief organizer Tsang Kin-shing vowed yesterday, just a week after police took most of its equipment in a raid.
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Japan took a significant step away from the pacifism enshrined in its constitution yesterday when it announced new defence guidelines for the first time in nearly a decade.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Under mounting domestic and international pressure, the Pakistani government yesterday suspended stringent media restrictions that critics said were designed to muzzle journalists .
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BEIJING -- Press freedom got a new -- but temporary -- boost in China yesterday when the government announced that it would allow foreign journalists greater autonomy in advance of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
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The head of Guinea's military relaxed a nationwide curfew Sunday, an indication the government believes the threat of violence following last week's deadly rioting and protests has subsided.
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SINGAPORE hopes to decide by the end of the month when the ban on poultry imports from Johor and Malacca will be lifted. This was revealed even as fresh cases of bird flu were found yesterday
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Singapore&#39;s foreign ministry said yesterday that it welcomed President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s (é³æ°´æ) address a day earlier, calling it a development that would reduce tensions between Taiwan and China.
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BEIJING -- China is relaxing decades-old restrictions on foreign reporters, announcing new regulations Friday that will give foreign media greater freedom to travel and report in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Even as the rules were made public, however, a Chinese court affirmed a prison...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 7 -- Under mounting domestic and international pressure, the Pakistani government on Thursday suspended stringent media restrictions that critics said were designed to muzzle the free press.
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Chewing gum, homosexuality, public protests... the list of things frowned upon is long in Singapore. But satire? Yes, that too. Seriously.
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BATAM, Indonesia  - Activists are considering   legal action against Singapore, accusing the government of   violating human rights after police held members incommunicado   before deporting them, an activist said on Saturday.
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A month before Singapore goes under   the international spotlight as the venue of a major   International Monetary Fund conference, the government flexed   its muscles to remind the media of its controls on the press.
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Thailand&#39;s prime minister announced yesterday that hundreds of Muslims detained after a riot in the country&#39;s restive south would be freed, in a bid to ease tensions over the deaths of 85 accused rioters - including 78 who died in military custody.
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South-east Asian govern-ments yesterday abandoned attempts to censure Burma publicly for its human rights abuses, with officials admitting in private that they
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SINGAPORE  - Despite facing an &quot;alarming AIDS (news - web sites) epidemic,&quot; Singapore will not go on a publicity blitz to promote condom use out of respect for residents who hold conservative views on sexual behaviour, a minister said.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore has once again emphasised that it welcomes any development that will reduce tension across the Taiwan Straits.