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A group of Ukrainian journalists, members of the Ukrainian delegation that arrived in Moscow to take part in a roundtable, have been arrested in "Sheremetievo" airport in Moscow. UNIAN was told about it by telephone by member of the Ukrainian delegation Serhiy Taran, director of the International Institute of Democracies. S.Taran said that among the arrested journalist there are camera groups of...

Twenty-five years after the alleged rape and murder of a woman journalist in Orissa, a statue of hers has been put up in a village as a mark of respect. Chabirani Das was gangraped and murdered near the Beluakhai beach in the coastal district of Jagatsinghpur on Oct 3, 1980. She was staying along with her husband Naba and a child at Dihasaibiri village in the same district. Chabirani was a...

Bill Gates made news this month when he said Microsoft's MSN search engine might give away cash or software to get people to use the site. Actually, Yahoo and Google are already exploring that ground, although they are relying on other companies to do it for them. Like many other Web sites, a pair of online newcomers, Blingo and GoodSearch, license search technology from Google and Yahoo and earn...

BEIJING -The top editor of one of China's boldest newspapers has been dismissed in what observers said was a move to strengthen Communist Party control over the media. Yang Bin, the editor-in-chief of the Beijing News – a tabloid that has often reported on official missteps and misdeeds – was removed on Wednesday, Chinese journalists and media experts said. The precise reasons for Yang's dismissal...

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The move to online advertising is happening faster than analysts anticipated as companies devote more of their budgets to the Internet than traditional media. The market for online ads will increase 32 percent to $16.6 billion next year, fueling growth at companies including Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc., Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Heath Terry said in a research report...

New York, December 28, 2005–The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Thursday's court decision upholding the conviction of Internet writer Zheng Yichun on charges of "inciting subversion" for his articles criticizing the government. The Liaoning Supreme People's Court rejected Zheng's appeal, making it more likely that he will serve a prison term of seven years. "Zheng has done nothing more...

Reporters Without Borders journalists continue to be hounded in Egypt, in remarks to two journalist being sentenced despite official announcements on decriminalizing press offenses, "each year such harassment increases." Two journalists with the independent daily "Al Fajr" (Dawn), Mohamed Abdul-Latif and Manal Lasheen, were sentenced on 14 December 2005 to six and four years in prison...

MINSK, Belarus -- Authorities have halted an investigation into the stabbing death of an opposition journalist, a top prosecutor said Wednesday. Veronika Cherkasova, 44, who had worked for independent media outlets for the past 15 years, was killed in her home in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in October. Sergei Ivanov, a top prosecutor in charge of the investigation, told The Associated Press...

BEIJING - A Straits Times reporter arrested in China on charges of spying will have his case referred to the prosecution department within days, Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said on Wednesday. Mr Tsang had brought up the case of Ching Cheong, who was based in Hong Kong, during meetings in Beijing with President Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao. Mr Ching, 56, was first detained in April in...

A union bid to buy nine newspapers owned by Knight Ridder Inc. is apparently a nonstarter because the chain says it will only consider offers for the entire company. San Jose's Knight Ridder said last month that it is exploring "strategic alternatives,'' including the possible sale of its 32 news-papers. Major investors in Knight Ridder stock who are critical of the company's management have...