Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/04/25
By: Emmanuelle Tzeng and Elizabeth Hsu

Paris, April 25 (CNA) Taiwan has the best press freedom in Asia, with its ranking in the

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World Press Freedom Index compiled by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) moving up three notches to 42nd place in 2018, higher than any other Asian countries evaluated.

RSF published the annual global rankings Wednesday after measuring the level of media freedom in 180 nations and areas based on a set of criteria that includes the level of pluralism, media independence, the environment and self-censorship, the legal framework, transparency, and the quality of the infrastructure that supports the production of news and information.

In the 2018 index, the Asia-Pacific region continued to have the world’s worst violators of the freedom to inform, with North Korea at 180th and China at 176th in terms of democracy.    [FULL  STORY]