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(Mizzima/IFEX) - The February issue of the monthly publication, "Padauk Pwint Thit", a Burmese-language magazine, was suspended without any reason cited by Burma's Censorship Board, sources from Rangoon's literati said. The edition in question, whose cover featured a portrait of veteran Burmese litterateur Thakhin Ko Daw Hmine, was barred from being published although permission had been obtained...

Are you good in English grammar, spelling and editing? Well there may be a job waiting for you from a newspaper thousands of miles away in the U.S. After IT companies, Banking and finance companies, call centres, education, medical transcription and legal sectors, it is now the U.S. that is looking for outsourcing editing jobs to India and some other developing countries. “Sure, there have been...

Reporters Without Borders today learned of the death of two Iraqi journalists at the hands of armed groups in Baghdad, bringing to 155 the number of media staff killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict in March 2003. The worldwide press freedom organisation on 16 March held a protest in Paris in which 153 activists and volunteers held up photos of 153 leading French journalists behind a...

A feud between the Kazak media and a government official they accuse of restricting their liberty has led to the minister in question, Yermukhamet Yertysbaev, apologising live on television. It is unusual for a cabinet minister in Kazakstan to come off worst in an encounter with journalists and non-government groups. It is usually the other way round - the government has often come under fire from...

COPENHAGEN: The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his "determination and courage". The Danish-based Free Press Society awarded Flemming Rose the inaugural international Sappho Prize, which comes with 20,000 kroner ($3,568). The publication of the 12 cartoons in the daily Jyllands-Posten...

The average U.S. household gets a record 104.2 television channels these days, but watches on average only slightly more than 15 of them, according to a new survey from Nielsen Media Research. Those figures are up from an average of 96.4 channels per home in 2005, when 15.4 were watched with any regularity, meaning about 10 minutes a week. An estimated 47% of all U.S. homes with televisions got...

It began with call centers, technology firms and the pharmaceutical industry. Now it appears the rush to capitalize on India’s booming economy has spread to the Western print media. Foreign publishers – particularly those based in the United States – are scrambling to set up shop in India. After finding success in China, the industry now views India as the last vast untapped market for Western...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the 14-month prison sentence imposed in absentia on journalist Mohamed Fourati on 9 March 2007 by an appeal court in Gafsa (400 km south of Tunis) for two articles he wrote in 2002. One, published on the Aqlma online news website, was said to prove he belonged to an opposition group. The other was about fundraising for the family of a political...

Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo was released by the Taliban Monday after two weeks in captivity and days after his driver was executed, news agencies have reported. This photo provided by PeaceReporter shows Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo, left, and head of NGO Emergency aid group Gino Strada moments after Mastrogiacomo's release at an Emergency hospital in Lashkargah...

Hundreds of protesters blockaded an Afghan hospital where freed Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo was staying on Tuesday, demanding details of the death of his beheaded driver, news agencies have reported. More than 200 relatives and friends of executed driver Syed Agha protested outside the Italian-run Emergency hospital in the capital of southern Helmand province, Lashkar Gah, demanding...