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French aid groups in disarray after latest Mali bustup
AFP, Published on 23/11/2022
» NIAMEY - French-backed NGOs in Mali fear their future is in limbo after relations between the military-run hosts and France hit the wall.
Third Hong Kong news company shutters as media fears grow
AFP, Published on 04/01/2022
» HONG KONG: Journalists from Hong Kong's CitizenNews decried plummeting press freedoms as they shut down Monday, saying they no longer felt safe to publish after a rival outlet's staff were arrested for "sedition".
Third Hong Kong news outlet shuts down as media fears grow
AFP, Published on 03/01/2022
» HONG KONG: Journalists from Hong Kong's CitizenNews decried plummeting press freedoms as they shut it down Monday, saying they no longer felt safe to publish after a rival outlet's staff were arrested for "sedition".
Shuttered Hong Kong news outlet's editors charged with sedition
AFP, Published on 30/12/2021
» HONG KONG: Two senior editors of Hong Kong media outlet Stand News were charged with "conspiracy to publish seditious" material on Thursday, authorities said, following a raid that drew international condemnation over China's crackdown on press freedom in the city.
Hong Kong local media outlet closes after police raid, arrests
AFP, Published on 29/12/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong pro-democracy media outlet Stand News said Wednesday it will close after a police raid and arrests of seven current and former staff members, in the latest blow to the city's rapidly-shrinking press freedoms.
Hong Kong police raid media outlet, arrest 6 for 'seditious publication'
AFP, Published on 29/12/2021
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong police raided the office of local media outlet Stand News and arrested six current and former staff on Wednesday for "seditious publication".
Scientists throw lifeline to world's rarest primate
AFP, Published on 16/10/2020
» PARIS: Hainan gibbons -- the rarest primates on Earth -- were already teetering on the edge of extinction in 2014 when the most powerful storm to lash China's coast in half a century ravaged their island oasis.
Tourist-free Phuket a 'ghost island'
AFP, Published on 09/10/2020
» PHUKET: Go-go dancers sit playing on their phones in empty bars lining deserted streets as this tourist island continues to reel from the ravages of the coronavirus pandemic with little sign of any recovery soon.
Starved, tortured, bombed: the fate of refugees trapped in Libya
AFP, Published on 04/07/2019
» PARIS - Acute malnutrition, forced labour, torture: NGOs have sharpened their tone against the shocking conditions endured by refugees and migrants in Libya, where over 40 people were killed in an air strike on a detention centre.