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(TNA) - More than half of Bangkok residents believe deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra sought to highlight his case through high-profile international media to advance and protect his own interests, according to a poll by Dhurakitpundit University. About 58 per cent of the respondents say former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has actively engaged with foreign media to save his personal...

Last week, media stock Global Broadcast News, part of the Television Eighteen India (TV18) group, made a sizzling debut on the bourses with 104 per cent gains. Brokerage house Edelweiss Securities sees an upside for TV18, in the media space. Analysts say TV18 reported better-than-expected revenues of Rs 64.80 crore, a growth of 67.1 per cent y-o-y and 22.1 per cent q-o-q. The growth in revenues...

There is one corner of the newspaper industry where circulation is rising, ad revenue is growing, and the Internet bears no relation to the grim reaper: weekly community newspapers. "My display advertising grows 10% a year," says Michael Schenkler, publisher of the independently owned Queens Tribune. "The content in the community newspaper is not available on TV or the Internet." Now News Corp. is...

GHANSHYAM P. SHAH, an 82-year-old widower, spends up to eight hours a day in front of his television watching prayer services, soap operas and financial news. But one afternoon last December, he was completely disconnected from his favorite pastime — and visibly unsettled — because his new digital set-top box was not working. “I’ll become really agitated if I can’t watch,” Mr. Shah said as Rumy M...

Mumbai: Police have arrested a freelance journalist for allegedly sending obscene phone messages to aspiring actress and dancer Nandini Jumani. Police in Oshiwada in western suburban Mumbai said Flynn Remedios, a freelance journalist, was arrested for sending vulgar text messages to actress Jumani, popularly known as "Krazy Kat". "We have arrested Remedios under section 345 of the Indian Penal...

Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) An angry mob attacked the OB van of Star Ananda, a Bengali news TV channel, and assaulted media persons at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's rally near Singur Saturday. The group of frenzied men at Baratelia near Singur, where Banerjee was allowed to hold the rally, attacked the OB van of Star Ananda, a channel that is seen as toeing the pro-industrialisation line...

Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. "India's ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country's unfolding success stories," Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency's office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...

Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. “India’s ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country’s unfolding success stories,” Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency’s office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...

News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. The goal of the effort is to expand the world’s access to news as it happens, the companies said in a press release Friday. In addition, it is designed to help NowPublic expand...

Russian news agency RIA Novosti will be entering the print media segment with the launch of an English-language weekly newspaper on Friday, the agency's editor-in-chief said on Thursday. The Moscow News, one of Russia's oldest English language periodicals, will now be relaunched in a new version, with considerable changes in both content and design. "The project to create a new version of the...