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Media groups based along the Thai-Burmese border claim that threats against them have hindered their ability to cover news about conflicts among leaders of the Karen National Union. Reporters with the Mae Sot-based Karen Information Center and an international broadcaster with the BBC Burmese Service say they have received threats after publishing news reports on the growing strife within the...

The rise of popularly-elected autocrats worldwide is presenting an alarming new model for government control of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has warned. These leaders stand for election and express rhetorical support for democratic institutions while using measures such as punitive tax audits, manipulation of government advertising, and sweeping content restrictions to...

Indonesian soldiers shot dead five Australia-based journalists even as they were surrendering at the town of Balibo in East Timor in 1975. An inquest into the death of one of the five Australia-based journalists, Brian Peters, began in Sydney on Monday, more than 30 years after his death on the then Indonesian-occupied island. An East Timorese eyewitness told a Sydney inquest Monday he saw four of...

NEW YORK: Two weeks after Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea outlined a bold new strategy to focus on the newspaper's Web site, the paper has named Meredith Artley executive editor of LATimes.com, according to an article on the site. Artley, who had been the International Herald Tribune's director of digital development for the past four years, will move from Paris to Los Angeles to begin work...

New York, February 6, 2007—Three staff members of Akuna, a bimonthly trade union newspaper, were seized on Monday from the suburbs of Colombo, according to news reports. The men, who are also trade union activists, may be in government custody. “We fear for the safety of the three missing newspaper staff members, and we call on the government to publicly disclose any information regarding their...

KIEV, Ukraine: A Russian journalist has requested political asylum in Ukraine, he said Tuesday, claiming that authorities in Siberia fabricated a criminal case against him as retribution for his investigations into suspected corruption among regional officials. Alexander Kosvintsev said he feared for his safety in Russia because of his work, including with a paper he founded in the 1990s in his...

Most of us desire to read as many newspapers as possible but are not able to do so for many reasons. But now with the help of a newly developed technology anyone can browse up to 10 newspapers on a cellular phone. Launched in Hyderabad, the first ever M-Paper enables one to read 10 complete English newspapers from India through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled telephone instruments. The...

AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Jordanian authorities have arrested a local journalist for assaulting a policeman, who is also incarcerated for hitting the reporter. The prosecution Tuesday refused to grant bail for Khaled al-Khawaja, a reporter for Jordan's mass-circulation al-Rai daily, which has the largest distribution in the kingdom and is partially owned by the government. The journalist was...

For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace. The PoIT, which began in 1645, published its last print issue on Dec. 29 but is continuing on the Internet. 9Sven Nackstrant/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) The...

Sudanese authorities have lifted the ban on independent Arabic daily Al-Sudani imposed on it after the newspaper violated a decree not to report on the case of a murdered journalist, Reuters has reported. The Al- Sudani newspaper, one of the leading dailies in Sudan, has had many problems with the authorities. Erwa's paper was closed down in Sudan under emergency law in 1994. It reopened last year...