https://www.scmp.com/rss/264887/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It is a fitting coincidence that the biggest shake-up of Singapore’s news media industry in decades has been announced in the 50th anniversary month of the country’s biggest ever crackdown on press freedom. Thursday’s news that Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) would hive off The Straits Times and other media outlets into a new not-for-profit company appears on the surface a radical, forward-thinking response to global journalism’s chronic financial crisis. Look back at history, though, and it... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3132604/singapores-press-overhaul-will-stay-true-lee-kuan-yews-50-year?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3132604/singapores-press-overhaul-will-stay-true-lee-kuan-yews-50-year?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 May 2021 05:45:17 +0000 Every year on May 3, World Press Freedom Day serves to remind people of the perils faced by journalists around the world. That message, though, probably falls flat among those who have lost faith in journalism as a force for good. In recent years, authoritarian populist politicians have cultivated this cynicism, attacking the credibility of the press to make their own tenuous relationship with truth appear no worse.  The media haven’t helped their own case. In Asia, conflicts of interest are... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2144276/islands-integrity-asian-media-show-why-world-press-freedom-day?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2144276/islands-integrity-asian-media-show-why-world-press-freedom-day?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 May 2018 04:30:30 +0000 Two of the region’s finest news organisations are under assault, showing once again that speaking truth to power in Asia is an enterprise fraught with risk. Malaysian news site Malaysiakini has been ordered by the appellate court to pay 350,000 ringgit (US$88,400) in a libel suit brought by an Australian mining company. In the Philippines, financial regulators revoked the business licence of Rappler, claiming it violated rules against foreign ownership. Malaysia’s High Court had dismissed the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2129747/malaysiakini-rappler-attacked-just-when-they-are-needed-most?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2129747/malaysiakini-rappler-attacked-just-when-they-are-needed-most?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jan 2018 06:31:26 +0000 US President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to ban refugees and immigrants from certain Muslim-majority countries has become a political football match watched with the intensity normally reserved for a Super Bowl showdown. Experts track every legal move and countermove, trying to gauge who will ultimately prevail. Unlike a normal sport, though, there is more to these court battles than the points that flash on the scoreboard. They are also an opportunity for hate propagandists to air their... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2074713/trumps-muslim-ban-may-have-already-served-its-hate-mongering?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2074713/trumps-muslim-ban-may-have-already-served-its-hate-mongering?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Feb 2017 07:59:02 +0000