Freedom of the Press

Something you won't read in the Dire Straits Times....

Reporters Without Frontiers have conducted their annual ranking of countries by press freedom. North Korea was predictably the worst - ranking in a 167, and Singapore.....147. That's right, out of 167 countries we are in the worst 21. the rankings are:

147 Singapore
148 Iraq
149 Côte d'Ivoire
150 Pakistan
151 Bangladesh
152 Tunisia
153 Laos
154 Libya
155 Syria
156 Zimbabwe
157 Maldives
158 Iran
159 Saudi Arabia
160 Nepal
161 Vietnam
162 China
163 Eritrea
164 Turkmenistan
165 Burma
166 Cuba
167 North Korea