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The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has released an updated version of its statement calling for a stop to the assault by the present Arroyo regime on press freedom in the country. CMFR's statement is supported by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance, the Center for Community Journalism and Development, the Philippine Press Institute and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

A working meeting of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives with the Minister of Communications and Information, Sofyan Djalil, on December 5th , at length agreed to postpone for two months the enforcement of four Government Regulations on broadcasting enacted concurrently on November 16, 2005.