Questions remain but Chinese political artist Ai Weiwei excited to be able to travel abroad again
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Police to be Stationed in Every Chinese Internet Company
World’s most powerful web restrictions to tighten with police at every Chinese internet company
Filipino Government Transparency Push Gets Boost
President Aquino puts support behind legislation seeking Filipino government transparency progress
House to House Searches For North Korea Banned Music
Kim Jong Un crackdown searching for North Korea banned music including local Robin Hood songs
Chinese Censorship is Damaging its International Outreach
Freedom House explains serious self-inflicted damage that Chinese censorship has brought to country
Battle Against Philippine Nepotism is Key to Democracy
President takes public stand against entrenched Philippine nepotism plague of dynasty families
220 Activists Detained Nationwide in Chinese Crackdown
A historic Chinese crackdown on human rights lawyers and activists is underway on massive scale
Malaysian Newspapers Shut For Reporting Corruption
Reporting on rampant corruption in government brings crackdown as Malaysian newspapers shuttered
Angelina Jolie Working on Khmer Rouge Film Adaption
Khmer Rouge film called First They Killed My Father will be based on dissident’s tragic memoirs
Passage of Cambodian NGO Law Denounced in Crisis
Senate passage of Cambodian NGO is a bad sign for any democratic progress in troubled nation