Media

PCCW predicts rapid growth for Now TV after Premier League win

28 Feb 2013

PCCW, which is controlled by the media and telecommunications mogul Richard Li Tzar-kai, reported yesterday a consolidated net profit for 2012 of HK$1.66 billion, up from HK$1.61 billion in 2011...

Excessive TV linked to antisocial behaviour

19 Feb 2013

Video killed the radio star - and television could be harming your child's social skills.

Cyber attacks against media on the rise, rights group says

15 Feb 2013

Cyber attacks against journalists and media organisations around the world have increased over the past few years as criminal hackers provide a cheap and easy way of censoring the press, a media...

US media slammed for withholding drone secrets

9 Feb 2013

The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Associated Press this week acknowledged withholding the information since 2011, provoking harsh criticism from media watchers and fellow reporters...

Wealthy have only themselves to blame

8 Feb 2013

If you don't want to air your dirty laundry in public, don't talk to reporters. It's elementary but somehow people keep forgetting it.

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Opinion

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Hong Kong press freedom drops to 5-year low on global index

Hong Kong's ranking for press freedom has fallen to a five-year low of 58 among 179 places worldwide, the latest index compiled by Reporters Without Borders shows.

'Privacy law will breed corruption' warns journalists' union

The Hong Kong Journalists Association has taken out a full-page advertisement in the South China Morning Post and similar ads in other newspapers warning "secrecy breeds corruption" and listing...

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Secondary pupils critique society in news commentary competition

More than 7,500 pupils took part in a series of competitions organised by the Hok Yau Club, a non-governmental organisation, from September to January.

PRIVACY

Journalists back petition against privacy law

The Hong Kong Journalists Association says it has received a "record-breaking" response to an industry-wide petition against the proposed change to the Companies Ordinance, with hundreds of...

LEGAL

Exco's Franklin Lam backs off suing Apple Daily

Executive Councillor Franklin Lam Fan-keung has decided not to sue Apple Daily for an article that said he was biased against migrants - a claim the paper has admitted was untrue.

Criticism of government must be based on fact

The Apple Daily newspaper was recently obliged to issue a front-page apology to executive councillor Franklin Lam Fan-keung, after wrongly claiming that he had admitted discriminating against...

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