World Press Freedom Day: Council of Europe platform highlights threats to media in Malta
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Malta has a total of nine alerts on the Council of Europe’s platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists, only one of which is marked as “resolved” and another of which is marked as a case of “impunity for murder,” according to its annual report.
As the world marks Press Freedom Day, the report, written up by a coalition of press freedom NGOs, journalists federations and media alliances, found that “in 2020, extraordinary damage was inflicted on the practice of free and independent journalism” as a result of COVID-19 emergency regulations as well as an entrenching of the culture of impunity; increased threats and physical violence; judicial harassment and State-led media capture as methods to undermine independent journalism.
Editor’s take: The week that was Feb 15-20
February 21, 2021
It’s been known for a long time that there were cracks emerging at the Philippines-based prefabricated housing construction firm
Revolution Precrafted.
This week, the controversies regarding the luxury builder took a new turn when the country’s National Bureau of Investigation, acting on a complaint by contractors and suppliers, decided to probe the company. The complainants said they were duped by the firm, which allegedly led to losses worth $3 million.
Established in 2015 by
Robbie Antonio, the flamboyant son of the real estate tycoon
Jose Antonio, Revolution Precrafted had become the first Philippine unicorn within two years of its founding.
Robbie Antonio, Founder, Revolution Precrafted
February 19, 2021
Editor’s note: Robbie Antonio, the founder of the luxury prefab construction firm Revolution Precrafted, is being probed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in the Philippines for allegedly duping suppliers and contractors. Meanwhile, DealStreetAsia has received a notice, dated Feb. 1, from Lambert Worldwide, representing Antonio, to take down our investigative articles into the company.
We are republishing the two articles, published on Feb. 21, 2020 and March 2, 2020, as free reads below.
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