2005-2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 25 (Bernama) -- Cuba will continue the work undertaken by Malaysia to revitalise the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) once the Caribbean country assumes the leadership of the 114-member movement from Malaysia in September next year, Minister of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Ernesto Lopez Dominguez said here Friday. He said Cuba would continue to work to strengthen the...

WASHINGTON -- The hurricane season officially ended on November 20, yet there will be no respite for President George W. Bush. Having barely recovered from the fallout of Hurricane Katrina, the president is now facing the full brunt of Hurricane Al Jazeera. A document leaked to the London Daily Mirror reported that Bush raised the idea of bombing Al Jazeera's main offices in Doha, the capital of...

The publication director of the Kinshasa-based weekly "AfricaNews" has been arrested and jailed on the orders of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kinshasa/Gombe High Court. Three judicial police officers arrested Michel Mukebayi Nkosso at his home early in the morning on November 24. He was immediately transferred to a jail cell at the prosecutor's office, according to the Kinshasa-based press

The press in Bangladesh is fast being forced into a corner with all arms of the establishment ganging up to clamp down on journalists. The last move comes in the form of an annoucement of the chairman of the country's press council that all relevant political figures have agreed to amend a crucial provision of the Press Council Act. Riot police beat a group of opposition activists during a rally

The case against Scooter Libby is up in the air, but the case against the press is solid. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. on criminal charges, including obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury in the CIA leak investigation. The press indicted itself on grounds of coziness, self-interest and dishonesty. So far, Plamegate - the...

The recent revelations about the man often seen as the "moral hero" of the Watergate scandal, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, have the feel of an interment ceremony. Reading press accounts of how Woodward swallowed the first Plame leak for a mere two-plus years without a peep and then went out on the Larry-King circuit to dismiss the significance of Plamegate, what came to mind was the burial...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the ongoing treatment of the magazine Cicero and its reporter Bruno Schirra by German authorities, and urged the German interior minister to suspend the prosecutions against the magazine and its reporter. In a letter to the German interior minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, the IPI urged the ministry and the prosecutor's office to issue new...

The British government has threatened editors with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act if they publish further details from a top secret memo that records US President George W Bush's intention of bombing the headquarters of Arab TV station Aljazeera in Qatar. This has been flayed far and wide. Aljazeera TV Lebanon staffers protest during a sit-in outside the pan-Arab satellite channel's...

HAVANA, Nov 24 (IPS) - More than 100 journalists from 14 countries have started networking to find ways round censorship, give gender equality greater prominence in the media, and promote the use of non-sexist language. The International Network of Journalists with a Gender Vision came into being in the city of Morelia, Mexico as a non-hierarchical, inclusive organisation that builds on the...

Mediapersons and media houses in South Asia have suffered acute harassment during the first three quarters of 2005. They were killed, threatened with death, tortured physically and mentally, arrested, and detained both by state and non-state actors, according to a report. The report by Media Monitor South Asia has specifically referred to the pathetic condition of journalists in Nepal and Pakistan