2005-2014

Round two in the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons: Because many Muslim regimes are competing with radical Islamists for popular approval, they continue to incite public outrage. Now the region fears terrorist leader Osama bin Laden's call to arms. Jørgen Nielsen quickly cleared his desk and emptied the safe. Then he locked the door from the outside and left the Danish Cultural Institute in...

Outdoor advertising in India may finally be coming of age. Figures in outdoor advertising are still guesstimates and are worth about Rs 1500 crore. Of the three major parties involved in the industry, media owners, ad agencies and clients, the ad agencies are happy with their creative freedom in the changing scenario, the clients are awaiting a replication of the advanced markets of Europe and the...

MUMBAI, FEB 12: After setting up offices in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Starcom MediaVest Group is planning foray into Nepal and Bangladesh while MindShare, part of the WPP Group is starting its independent operations in Colombo, Sri Lanka. MindShare’s operations in Colombo will be spearheaded by Sunil Manocha, who was earlier with Nimbus Communications. Meanwhile, Madison Communications is planning...

Trust me on this. When the Philadelphia Inquirer became the first major American newspaper to publish one of the drawings of the Prophet Muhammad that have inflamed passions throughout the Muslim world, it didn’t strike a blow to press freedom. "This is the kind of work that newspapers are in the business to do," Amanda Bennett, the paper’s editor, told The Associated Press. I don’t think so...

The Indian government has fallen in line with the sentiments expressed by the Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid. The government has expressed "deep concern" over the growing controversy following publication of cartoons of prophet Mohammed, and said attempts to hurt the religious sentiments of the people should be avoided, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. "The Government of India is

DAMASCUS, 12 February (IRIN) - Following violent protests last week in the capital, Damascus, against negative depictions of the prophet Mohamed in a Danish newspaper, charges have been filed against a journalist who called for peaceful dialogue to settle the issue. Following his arrest on 7 February, journalist Adel Mahfouz has been charged with insulting public religious sentiment, an offence...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the arrest of three journalists in Yemen and two in Algeria for publishing controversial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. Their newspapers have all been ordered closed. Mohammed Al-Asadi, editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer, has been detained by the office of the print and media prosecutor in Sana'a, according to the Yemen...

The campaign for the decriminalising of defamation in Indonesia took a giant step forward with the Supreme Court decision on February 9 to clear Tempo Magazine chief editor, Bambang Harymurti of all charges of criminal defamation. “This is a great result for the campaign for press freedom in Indonesia,” said International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) president Christopher Warren. On February 9...

Srinagar, Feb 11: Yusuf Jameel, veteran Kashmiri journalist has won the best journalist of the South Asian region award for his outstanding reporting from Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir during a visit across the Line of Control last year. He was among a dozen journalists from Jammu and Kashmir who joined the return visit to Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir of the South Asian journalists and during...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - An opinion poll in a Danish Sunday newspaper showed that more than half the Danes questioned said they understood why Muslims around the world were outraged by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first published in Denmark. But fewer than half those asked thought it was wrong of the daily Jyllands-Posten to publish the 12 cartoons, whose reprinting by other European newspapers...