1.   Local journalists are intimidated and foreign media expelled.

2.   The foreign media reported in late September what were described as recent major pro-democracy demonstrations in Bhutan.

3.   The SLORC continued to accuse the foreign media of carrying exaggerated and fabricated reports about the situation in Arakan and the refugees crossing into Bangladesh.

4.   Foreign media sources reported that at campaign rallies candidates were expected to pay people who attended, as well as local government officials, entertainers and often local journalists.

5.   This would give Royalbion world-wide publicity and Sir Bryan had decreed that the foreign media should be given the best that Britain could provide.

6.   Also, France, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal maintain restrictions on foreign media ownership.

7.   And as a result, even in the barrage of foreign media coverage about the crisis in Zimbabwe, little but condemnation for Mugabe is heard.

8.   Another country highlighted in the report is China, whose government blocks various foreign media and human rights Web sites by using domestic software.

9.   At the same time, he hesitated to talk to the foreign media about his arrest.

10.   Ahmad refused interview requests with Cox Newspapers, and his spokesman Mohammed Abdullah said he does not grant interviews to any foreign media.