This trend has led PM Razak to dub GE13 as Malaysia's "first social media election." A preliminary report [PDF] of a study jointly conducted by the University of Nottingham and Centre for Independent Journalism, which analyzed 26 media outlets, found that online media delivers the most "even-handed coverage of the elections" in the first week after the parliament was dissolved. [...] James Chin, a professor of political science at the Malaysian campus of Australia's Monash University, said that GE13 "is shaping up to be the most violent election in living memory." In late March, a pro-opposition alliance website published a letter, signed by the secretary of the National Security Council and addressed to the Prime Minister, containing the opposition's campaign strategy, allege. [...] The agreement came as a result of a contentious diplomatic row in 2011 over the arrest of several Taiwanese citizens using the Philippines as a base of operations to target victims in mainland China. [...] Bloggers have criticized the AGC's demand as a means of stifling "online dissent." THAILAND Rights organizations demand bail for magazine editor The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the Geneva-based World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) have asked the Thai Court of Appeal to review the case of magazine editor Somyot Prueksakasemsuk and to grant him bail. [...] According to the show's creator, the series will only be available online as the "sensitive" subject matter did not "appeal to networks or their advertisers." Blogger targeted for criticism of state Vietnamese blogger Huynh Ngoc Tuan and his family have been repeatedly harassed for blog posts critical of the state, and has been fined for what the authorities say is "propaganda against the Communis.
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