SEAPA | Southeast Asian Press Alliance

Source: PCIJ

Ten months, nine lives, and a flurry of finger-pointing and paper work later, the controversy over the media coverage of the 2010 Luneta hostage-taking incident by the country’s biggest and most influential television and radio networks has come down to feeble fines of P30,000, and a virtual slap on the wrist.

Source: CMFR

A Filipino broadcaster of a government-run radio station plans to file charges against the governor of Kalinga province for allegedly attacking and threatening to kill him. Kalinga is approximately 317 kilometers north of Manila.

Source: CMFR

Friends from a military intelligence unit recently warned a Filipino radio broadcaster from Cotabato City of his possible assassination. Cotabato City is approximately 894.57 kilometers south of Manila.

Source: CIJ

The following is a statement from the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) Malaysia, SEAPA's associate member based in Kuala Lumpur:

The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) Malaysia is disappointed at the sequence of events that has led to the resignation of Mohamed Ha'ta Wahari as National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Malaysia president on 31 May 2011. Ha'ta reportedly said that he has resigned following the NUJ executive council's decision that he could no longer be president since he was dismissed from "Utusan Malaysia".

Source: CMFR

Unidentified men threw homemade explosives at a government-run radio station in Tabuk City in Kalinga province on 24 May 2011. The attack is believed to be in retaliation for the station's reports and commentaries on the proliferation of the illegal numbers game known as "jueteng" in the province. Kalinga is a province approximately 317 km north of Manila.

British author Alan Shadrake, who wrote a controversial book on the Singapore judiciary, has lost his appeal before the country’s Court of Appeal on 27 May 2011, media reports said.