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May 3, 2016

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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