2005-2014

When the New York Times announced last year it would start charging non-subscribers to the print edition to read its best columnists online most people thought the plan would fall flat on its face. Well, it hasn’t! When the Wall Street Journal a few years back made its web presence via subscription, everyone thought that was a born loser. It wasn’t and last year wsj.com increased its online...

PRAGUE, 29 January 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Supporters of the dismissed editor in chief of a Kyrgyz national newspaper are collecting signatures to petition President Kurmanbek Bakiev, Prime Minister Feliks Kulov, and parliament speaker Omurbek Tekebaev to withdraw the decision, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. An unpublished decree signed by Kulov on 27 January sacked Bakyt Orunbekov from his post at...

India's first newspaper, Hicky's Gazette, more formally titled the Bengal Gazette, appeared in Calcutta on January 29, 1780, an occasion now fittingly celebrated nationally as Newspaper Day. The weekly enjoyed a short but tempestuous life, reflecting the rumbustious nature of its publisher, James Augustus Hicky. However, the event gave birth to the modern Indian press. The transformation in the...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - ABC news anchor Bob Woodruff and camera operator Doug Vogt were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. television network said. At the time of the blast, they were traveling with an Iraqi Army unit in an Iraqi vehicle near Taji, near Baghdad, the network said. After the blast, the vehicle came under small arms fire, ABC news reported....

SAN`A, Yemen -- A lot of people were alarmed to see that Palestinians gave the terrorist Hamas organization an upset victory last week over the reputedly corrupt Fatah in parliament elections. But, in this part of the world, any change of power through ballots instead of bullets is a good day. The big news just happened to find me also in the Middle East, but at the other end of the Arabian...

IN the 19th century, Britain ruled the world as the industrial revolution sent steam trains, machinery and textiles all around the globe. For the last 100 years, America has prospered on fast food, cars, and the Hollywood dream, becoming the global super-power trading in weapons, pharmaceuticals and farming. But now China is at the fore – this is its century to dominate. British consumers enjoy...

The only thing that was surprising about Google's decision to self-censor its China-based service was that people were surprised by it. In the general media coverage, there were many gleeful references to the company's motto - boasted of in the preface to its IPO prospectus - of 'Don't Be Evil' (a phrase which, at the time, caused Wall Street investment bankers to lie down in darkened rooms). How...

Tribun Timur is a local newspaper in Makassar, the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi, which benefits from citizen journalists. It was first published two years ago and has become one of the leading newspapers in Makassar, with a distribution of 50,000 copies and about 120,000 readers. In a talk with Tribun Timur Editor-in-Chief Dahlan, he explained that, as a new newspaper...

Istanbul, (SANA) - Minister of Expatriates criticized on Saturday the image in which western media presents the status of the Arab and Muslim woman. Dr. Buthaina Shabaan said in a speech at the opening of the International Conference of Women’s Alliance for Intercultural Dialogue that the " western media is not fair on the Muslim woman nor does it reflect the genuine social reality she has reached...

Google, the high-flying Internet search company founded on the idea that to do business one doesn't have to do evil, has taken a big step towards implicating itself in the evil of the Chinese Communist regime. This past Tuesday Google announced the launch of a new search engine in China, Google.cn. That search engine complies with the demands of the Chinese regime for control over the Internet...