2005-2014

NEW YORK: Forced to defend what some critics consider its slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from New Orleans. FEMA, which is leading the rescue efforts, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out...

NEW DELHI, September 8: A new report has provided compelling evidence of a link between media consolidation and broadcast indecency in the US. As leading broadcasters such as Clear Channel Communications and Viacom Inc’s Infinity Broadcasting have bought more stations, they have frequently replaced local programming with shock jocks such as Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge, which are prone...

NEW DLEHI, September 8: The days of bookselling are not history as yet. Books, in fact, are making history and are are the among the hottest selling items online. A recent survey by the Internet & Online Association of India (IOAI) and Cross Tab Marketing Services has found that books was the most popular category among online shoppers. Unlike apparel or jewellery, books are not something buyers...

A statement this week from Reporters Without Borders will make unsettling reading for foreign companies eager to join China's internet boom. The press freedom watchdog accused the US internet portal Yahoo of helping Chinese authorities to identify and convict a local journalist of leaking state secrets. In April, Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sending foreigners an e-mail that...

The human-rights group is calling for action over claims Yahoo is 'cheerfully sacrificing human rights in return for a cut of the Chinese market'. Privacy International (PI) has called on Internet users to boycott Yahoo over allegations that the Web giant provided information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets. Simon Davies, director of PI...

The latest news that Yahoo turned over private emails to the Chinese government which led to the conviction and ten-year sentence of Shi Tao, an editorial department head at the Contemporary Business News in China's Hunan province turns my stomach. Yahoo claims, according to Dan Nystedt , at the IDG News Service, "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites...

Internet giant Yahoo has sidestepped claims that it aided China in the jailing of a journalist after he sent an email from a Yahoo account, saying it has to abide by rules laid down in the countries it operates. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are based," Yahoo...

The American internet company Yahoo! defended itself today against criticism that it supplied information to the Chinese authorities that led to a 10-year jail term for a local journalist, saying it must comply with the law. "Just like any other global company, Yahoo! must ensure that its local country sites must operate within the laws, regulations and customs of the country in which they are...

Yahoo, the American internet giant, stands accused of helping Beijing to send a dissident journalist to prison for 10 years. The company is said to have supplied the authorities with computer records proving that Shi Tao had posted on the internet an internal government document banning the Chinese media from commenting on last year's 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It is easy...

Recent research by Richard Nisbett and his colleagues at the University of Michigan suggests that Asians and Americans quite literally look at the world differently. Broadly speaking, Americans tend to focus on a single image where Asians take in the bigger picture. Is that because Asians are taught to think in terms of larger groups -- family certainly, perhaps society at large -- where Americans...