Front-line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts cover an array of topics of critical importance to journalists. Governments store transactional data and the content of journalists’ communications. Media and money engage in a tug of war, with media owners reluctant to draw China’s disfavor and advertisers able to wield surprising clout. In Syria, journalists are determined to distribute the news amid the chaos of conflict. In Vietnam, the government makes a heavy-handed bid to bring the Internet under control. And globally, eliminating witnesses has become an all too easy method of stymying justice when journalists are assassinated.

Asia

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Analysis
Media owners’ reluctance to draw China’s disfavor imperils the ability of the Hong Kong and Taiwanese press to play a watchdog role.
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Analysis
As they look toward the next era of uncertainty, reporters in Afghanistan express a sense of determination to build on what they have achieved.
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Analysis
A mushrooming blogosphere has challenged the state’s media monopoly, drawing a heavy-handed bid to bring the Internet under government control.


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Afghanistan

41Attacks on journalists
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Bangladesh

4 Bloggers arrested
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Burma

1.07%Internet penetration

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China

32 Journalists in prison
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India

136 Days in prison
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Nepal

22 Journalists fled

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Pakistan

5 Killed in 2013
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Philippines

3rd Impunity Index rating
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Sri Lanka

4th Impunity Index ranking

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Thailand

10 Journalists killed since 1992
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Vietnam

18 Jailed journalists

Country reports in this chapter were written and researched by CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia Program Research Associate Sumit Galhotra, and Bangkok-based Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn W. Crispin.


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