Nepal ranks low in media freedom index
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According to the Third Annual Worldwide Index of Press Freedom released in Paris yesterday by the Reporters Sans Frontiers, Nepal is 160th out of 167 countries, with Denmark at top and North Korea at the bottom.
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Text of article by Nangarhari in Pashto entitled "Mass media should be controlled based on a particular legal framework" by Afghan state-run newspaper Anis on 7 February  The freedom of speech is one of the biggest achievements of the current democratic system in the past five years.
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Text of report by Nepalese Kantipur Television on 15 September  [Presenter] The High-Level Media Commission, which conducted research into the media industry in Nepal, presented its report and recommendations to Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.
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Nepal's royalist government renewed its appeal for peace talks with Maoist rebels as a blockade called by the guerrillas reduced traffic in and out of the capital to a trickle, officials said.
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Nepal rejected on Tuesday  international criticism of King Gyanendra's decision to assume  full power, saying the step was crucial to fight Maoist rebels.
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The once quiet Himalayan Hindu kingdom Nepal has turned unsettled since 1996 when members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) went violent on some of their demands.
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Press freedom in Hong Kong has declined since the former British colony's return to Chinese rule a decade ago, according to a report by the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
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The perception that Jamaica is corrupt has worsened in the past year, pushing its ranking on Transparency International&#39;s Corruption Perception index to 74 out of 146 countries, down 17 places from its 2003 position.
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Nepal's government publishes details of more than 170 people who 'disappeared' during the decade-long armed conflict.
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US-based Human Rights Watch warned that a libel suit against critics of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra filed by a corporation he founded, along with increasing government pressure on the media was threatening to stifle press freedom in Thailand.
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BEIJING, Sept. 12 -- Journalism and human rights groups on Tuesday blasted China's efforts to further control the distribution of news and financial information by foreign news agencies, saying revised regulations showed that the government was tightening censorship.
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The UN and human rights groups express concern over the number of people who disappear in Nepal.
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Climbers heading out to Nepal have been asking about the situation in Kathmandu. There were some good news today: The Maoists have called off the blockade order over Katmandu, after six days of theoretical isolation from the rest of the country.
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Text of report in English by Thai newspaper The Nation website on 21 September  More than 300 community radio stations in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Mae Hong Son suspended broadcasts yesterday [20 September] on orders from the ruling council.
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Nepal's media is subjected to a six-month ban on articles critical of King Gyanendra's state of emergency.
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Text of report by Nepalese newspaper Kantipur on 1 March  Banke [district in midwestern Nepal], 28 February [Wednesday]: Maoist Chairman Prachanda has alleged that big media organizations are bent on spreading instability.
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In a poor country that lacks railways - reliant on its roads for food supplies - it is the small things that are indicative of how Nepal is being hurt by the Maoist rebels&#39; five-day blockade of Katmandu.