2005-2014

Two former Daily Mirror journalists were warned yesterday that they face imprisonment over their attempts to manipulate the stock market through their City Slicker newspaper column. Southwark Crown Court heard how James Hipwell and Anil Bhoyrul conspired with a third man, private investor Terry Shepherd, to make thousands of pounds by ramping up the price of shares. Bhoyrul, 38, had pleaded guilty...

Srinagar : Shops and establishments in most parts of Kashmir Valley were closed Thursday to protest a Danish newspaper publishing a caricature of the Prophet and the alleged desecration of the Quran in Sopore town. The strike call was given by the separatist Hurriyat Conference group led by Syed Ali Geelani. The Kashmir bar association and other groups supported the shutdown. Authorities have made...

(December 08, 2005) -- Before the Tribune Co. discharges any more journalists, and before Wall Street kills any papers, let's look at the economics of newspapers. Must they be at the mercy of executives seeking bonuses and stock appreciation rather than nourishing a force for civic good? Although the obit-writers are greatly exaggerating the death of American newspapers, we've seen enough...

The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the government Wednesday to allow a private radio station to relay BBC programmes, the station's chief said. "We will resume the broadcast of the BBC Nepali Service from Wednesday," Radio Sagarmatha chief Lakshman Upreti said. RED RIDING HOODS: Nepalese activists shout anti-monarch slogans during a rally at Naya Baneswar in the capital Kathamandu December 2,2005...

8 December 2005 -- Kazakh authorities today seized the entire print run of the latest issue of an opposition newspaper. In early November, all copies of "Juma Times" were seized for what authorities said was "deliberately false" information that harmed the reputation of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev. Editors at the paper say they were given no official reason for the latest seizure. The...

The crackdown on journalists by the Ethiopian government which saw a dozen of them being arrested in November has taken a turn for the worse with one of them being convicted already. SHUTTERS WIDE SHUT: Ethiopians are seen in front of closed shops in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 5, 2005. Across Addis Ababa, many shopkeepers are still struggling to repair windows and doors damaged in a spate of

BISHKEK, 7 December (IRIN) - Eight months after public protests swept away Kyrgyz president Askar Akayev, press freedom remains a key issue in the former Soviet republic, despite expectations that the new authorities would promote media liberalisation, journalists say. A recent month-long dispute between the staff and shareholders of KOORT - the first national independent television channel in...

London (ENI). When a reader wrote to Britain's daily Guardian newspaper complaining there were too many religious stories in a journal, she believed had a secular tradition, the readers' editor decided to make an electronic check. "Yet another religious article today," the reader wrote on 5 December. "Please could you tell me why there is now so much religion in the Guardian? What prompted this...

THERE was plenty of hand- wringing by newspaper executives about the future of their industry yesterday at the UBS Global Media Conference in Midtown Manhattan. In the last year, newspapers have cut jobs, their circulation has fallen and readers have continued to drift to the Internet and other nontraditional media. But some of those executives saw promising news amid the gloom and doom. November...

Thousands of people flooded the streets of Iran's capital Tehran to mourn the death of the victims of the military aircraft which crashed on Tuesday in the capital, killing 116 people, including 68 journalists, and injuring dozens of others. The families of the victims have blamed the crash on poor safety procedures. The aircraft was carrying journalists, photographers and cameramen to cover...