JAKARTA: The press in our former colony, the tiny Timor Leste, is much more free than ours; the new nation ranks number 57 together with Ghana and a notch above Thailand on a newly released list that ranks 167 countries.
In the region, Indonesia, ranked at 117 with Nigeria, is not all that far above Malaysia, which ranks number 122 on the list compiled by the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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