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Media watchdog joins calls for review of Daily Post work permit

The rights group describes the move against Vanuatu Daily Post editor Dan McGarry as disgraceful.

Mr McGarry has linked the government's decision to his reporting critical of Vanuatu's deportation of Chinese nationals to China.

Vanuatu officials have denied the rejection is political, saying the Daily Post must be headed by a ni-Vanuatu under local laws.

Reporters Without Borders Asia-Pacific director, Daniel Bastard, said Mr McGarry had been punished for annoying the government.