{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox publisher | image = | parent = Asia Plus Media Group | status = | founded =1995 | founder = | successor = | country = Tajikistan | headquarters = Dushanbe | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = ''Tajikistan Economic Review''<br/>''Asia-Plus Blitz''<br/>''Asia Plus'' | topics = News | url = [https://asiaplustj.info/en Asia-Plus] }}
'''Asia-Plus''' is a privately owned independent news agency based in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
==History and profile== Asia-Plus news agency was established in 1995 and started its activity in English and in Russian in 1996.<ref name=ap>{{cite web|title=About Us|url=http://news.tj/en/aboutus_en|work=Asia-Plus Media Group|accessdate=3 February 2014}}</ref> It is privately owned<ref name=rfe/> and the owner is the Asia Plus Media Group.<ref name=ap/> The agency is based in Dushanbe<ref>{{cite book|author=Kogan Page|title=Asia and Pacific Review 2003/04|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z1cpiEJMAi8C&pg=PA331|year=2003|publisher=Kogan Page Publishers|isbn=978-0-7494-4063-3|page=331}}</ref> and started a weekly paper, ''Asia Plus'' in 2000.<ref name=iwpr>{{cite web|title=Media Partners |url=http://iwpr.net/central-asia-human-rights-reporting-project/media-partners-tajikistan |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918103051/http://iwpr.net/central-asia-human-rights-reporting-project/media-partners-tajikistan |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 September 2010 |work=Institute for War and Peace Reporting |accessdate=3 February 2014 }}</ref> It also publishes ''Tajikistan Economic Review'', a monthly, and ''Asia-Plus Blitz'', a newsletter published in weekdays.<ref>{{cite web|title=Tajik News|url=http://www.traveltajikistan.com/news/newse.html|work=Travel Tajikistan|accessdate=3 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209030906/http://traveltajikistan.com/news/newse.html|archive-date=9 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> It has an independent political leaning.<ref name=cpj>{{cite web|title=Asia Plus to receive radio license|url=http://cpj.org/2002/07/asia-plus-to-receive-radio-license.php|work=Committee to Protect Journalists|accessdate=3 February 2014|location=New York|date=31 July 2002}}</ref> It has received funds from the National Endowment for Democracy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Report|year=2011|url=https://www.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ned-2011AR_final.pdf|website=National Endowment for Democracy}}</ref>
In June 2012, the website of the agency was cut allegedly by the Tajik authorities.<ref name=rfe>{{cite news|title=Internet Access Cut To Leading Private Tajik News Agency|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/tajik-news-agency-cut/24612846.html|access-date=3 February 2014|newspaper=Radio Free Europe|date=13 June 2012|location=Dushanbe}}</ref> A month later the authorities again banned the website in addition to those of Russia’s ''RIA Novosti news agency'' and ''BBC'''s website in Russian.<ref>{{cite web|title=Threats to the Open Net: August 3, 2012|url=https://opennet.net/blog/2012/08/threats-open-net-august-3-2012|work=OpenNet Initiative|accessdate=3 February 2014|author=Malavika Jagannathan|date=3 August 2012}}</ref>
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