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Moroccan authorities have stopped the pan-Arab satellite TV news station Al-Jazeera from broadcasting a daily news programme covering the Maghreb countries from its studios in the Moroccan capital Rabat. Al-Jazeera’s Rabat bureau received a fax Tuesday from the National Agency for Telecom Regulation (ANRT) saying the frequency it used for broadcasting the Maghreb programme was being withdrawn...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemns a decision by Chinese authorities to place a journalist known by the name of Naranbilig under house arrest for a year after holding him for 20 days in Inner Mongolia. It also condemned the May 3 arrest of writer Zhou Yuanzhi, who may now be charged with “inciting subversion of state authority” as many other Chinese intellectuals and dissidents have...

Reporters sans frontières (RSF) said Wednesday it was disgusted by a murder attempt against Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, celebrated presenter on the privately-owned Eastern Television Network (ETN), on May 4, the last woman working openly as a journalist in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, north-eastern Somalia. Bisharo Mohammed Waeys, who presents a popular talk show onto which she invites...

The Burmese junta, which has appealed for international aid to cope with the impact of Cyclone Nargis, has barred foreign journalists from entering the country and expelled one BBC reporter, news agencies have reported quoting state media. BBC Asia correspondent Andrew William Harding was stopped by Myanmar (Burma) immigration officials at Yangon International Airport from entering the country May...

A renowned Chinese columnist has lost his job at a magazine over commentaries on unrest in Tibet which did not conform with the official line, a watchdog group and a source with knowledge of the dismissal said on Tuesday, according to Reuters. Zhang Ping, who writes under the pen name Chang Ping, was sacked as deputy chief editor of the Southern Metropolis Weekly magazine, the Paris-based...

Sakal Times, the English daily from the Sakal group, will be launched on May 7, Business Standard has reported. The first edition of the newspaper is being launched in Pune, the hometown of the Sakal group, which owns Maharashtra's number two Marathi daily, Sakal. It runs two English papers—The Maharashtra Herald in Pune and Gomantak Times in Goa. Some details: However, when it launches in Pune in...

A day before the case of a local journalist allegedly blackmailing a Congress leader in a sex scandal incident comes up for hearing in a local court, the scribe today claimed that he has captured in his camera at least 51 court officials taking bribe, the Indian Express has reported. Amrik Singh alias Prince, a local journalist, showed nine such clippings at a press conference on Sunday. Singh...

Police in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have detained a journalist and three support staffers of a private entertainment magazine since May 2. Local journalists say the detentions are related to a cover story about the high-profile trial of Ethiopia’s most popular pop singer, Tewodros Kassahun. Deputy Editor and owner Alemayehu Mahtemework and the three media workers from the monthly Enku...

The US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp is the worst prison ever, Sudanese al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj who was released from the prison days ago said Monday, according to a Xinhua report. In a speech broadcast live on Sudanese television, ai-Haj, who returned to Sudan on Friday, said he spent 2,340 days in the "most heinous prison mankind has ever known," and that jailers there insulted...

The Chennai police have arrested three persons including a godman for assualting a journalist, who tried to take photographs of their ashram in Adambakkam on Thursday, the Times of India has reported. The police arrested godman Vikraman and ashram employees Ravichandran and Selvam in connection with the assualt. Police said Vikraman has been running the ashram in Thillai Ganga Nagar near...