Reuters reporter insists Myanmar police planted ‘secret’ papers
YANGON: A jailed Reuters reporter told a court in Myanmar on Monday that documents he is accused of breaking state secrets laws to obtain were planted by a police officer, who handed…
Myanmar police insisted on meeting, gave documents: Reuters reporter
YANGON: A Reuters reporter accused of obtaining secret state documents in Myanmar told a court on Monday a policeman had called him on the day he was arrested and insisted on a…
Myanmar court presses secrets act charges against Reuters reporters
YANGON: A court in Myanmar on Monday charged two jailed Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents, moving the landmark press freedom case into its trial stage after six months of preliminary…
NYT, New Yorker win Pulitzer for #MeToo
NEW YORK: The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for explosive reporting that brought down Harvey Weinstein and spawned a cultural watershed on the…
Myanmar genocide report brings calls for independent probe
MYANMAR: A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar prompted a demand from Washington for a credible probe into the bloodshed there and calls for the release of two…
Reuters reporters arrested appear in Myanmar court
YANGON: Two Reuters journalists accused of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act appeared in court on Tuesday, with prosecutors due to present more witnesses to determine whether they should be charged under the…
Tests link Syrian govt stockpile to largest sarin attack
THE HAGUE: The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists…
Police charged Reuters reporters with ‘Secrets Act’ hour after their arrest
YANGON: Myanmar police sought permission from the nation’s president to go ahead with an investigation into whether two Reuters journalists had breached the Official Secrets Act only an hour after arresting them…
Sudan authorities arrest Reuters, AFP journalists in Khartoum
KHARTOUM: Sudanese authorities have detained a Reuters stringer and an AFP reporter who were covering protests in the capital Khartoum, the country’s external information council, which deals with foreign media organizations, said.…
Myanmar police charge Reuters reporters under Official Secrets Act
YANGON: Two Reuters journalists were formally charged by police in a Myanmar court Wednesday for breaching a colonial-era secrecy law that carries up to 14 years in jail, despite calls for their immediate…
Bill Clinton, EU call for release of Reuters journalists in Myanmar
WASHINGTON: Former US President Bill Clinton and the European Union’s envoy to Myanmar on Monday called for the immediate release of two Reuters journalists being held in Myanmar. “A free press is…
Two journalists arrested in Myanmar, face official secrets charges
YANGON: Myanmar’s government said on Wednesday that police had arrested two journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The reporters had been working on stories about a military crackdown on the Rohingya…