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Since 2015, there have been 106
reported incidents of violence against journalists in Afghanistan,
including a suicide attack that killed seven from the Moby Group
media conglomerate in January. But, on World Press Freedom Day, MOBY
Group Chairman Saad
Mohseni says that in spite of these actions, the
media is helping to improve education, gender equality, and democracy
in the country. “Small wonder that the enemies of democracy have
increased their hostility to the media, as it upholds the very values
that void their ideology,” Mohseni said.
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Last November’s historic elections
in Myanmar resulted in a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s
National League for Democracy (NLD). Priscilla Clapp, former U.S.
Chief of Mission in Myanmar, says that the NLD is now likely to
engage in “a heavy legislative agenda” with little impediment. “I
think we're going to see them trying to clean up the legal basis for
their country,” she said. “And particularly get some of the laws that
are hangovers from the colonial period off the books, because these
are the laws that have been used for repression.”
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In the first of a series of interviews that Asia Blog will
run throughout May in conjunction with Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month, actor Randall
Park discusses how stereotypes of Asian
Americans in comedy are declining, but still prevalent and more
subtle. However, “Asian-Americans are more vocal,” he said. “We’re
tired of the same old crap.”
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