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What is the most influential Internet news outlet in South Korea? Opinions may differ but based on visitor numbers, it is Naver, the green Internet portal with some 15 million visitors every day. Around six million people read news articles via Naver's news service daily, according to Internet research firm Ranky.com. Its news sources include over 80 media outlets, including newspapers, magazines...

(dpa) ThaiDay, an English-language daily owned by a leading critic of Thai caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, is to cease publication this week because of financial problems, executives confirmed Monday. Sondhi Limthongkul, the newspaper's chairman, told ThaiDay staff that he would be forced to close down the Bangkok-based newspaper on Thursday because of political pressure on Thai banks...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (August 28, 2006) - In a new action in its hemisphere-wide awareness campaign aimed at bringing the murderers of journalists to justice, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on Mexico's President Vicente Fox to act to speed up the investigation into the death of news photographer Gregorio Rodríguez Hernández and bring to trial and convict those...

GROZNY, Russia: The hurried effort to free Elina Ersenoyeva, who was abducted by masked men on the main street of Chechnya's capital on Aug. 17, began like many others. An account of her disappearance was compiled and circulated. Human rights groups and civil society organizations urged Russia to investigate and secure her release. She was a journalist and social worker, they said - another victim...

Foreign newspapers will not be allowed to print on the mainland, a senior official has said, stressing the issue was "complicated". Yu Yongzhan, deputy director of the General Administration of Press and Publication (Gapp), told the South China Morning Post that the administration had studied the possibility of allowing foreign newspapers to print on the mainland, but had decided against it at...

When P. Anthony Ridder met with Wall Street analysts in June last year for a routine financial review, he was the chief executive of the nation's second-largest newspaper company. And he could not have sounded more upbeat about the prospects for his corporate namesake, Knight Ridder. "The newspaper industry generally, and Knight Ridder specifically, are strong, healthy businesses with a bright...

GAZA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike hit a Reuters vehicle in Gaza City on Saturday, wounding two journalists as they covered a military incursion, doctors and residents said. One of the Palestinian journalists, who worked for a local media organisation, was seriously wounded. A cameraman working for Reuters was knocked unconscious in the air strike, one of several in the area. The...

LONDON: Vaughan Smith leaned forward in his chair and winced as a scene from "Baghdad E.R.," a documentary film about an American army hospital in Iraq, rolled across the screen. "It's pretty gory," he said as the camera zoomed in on a soldier's eye, from which a surgeon was about to remove a bit of shrapnel. While some people look away from the effects of war, Smith prefers to examine them...

Two journalists kidnapped in the Gaza Strip two weeks ago were released Sunday after their kidnappers forced them at gunpoint to say on a videotape that they had converted to Islam. It was not clear whether a deal had been struck with the abductors. THE CENTRE OF ATTRACTION: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh meeting freed journalist Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig. To joy...

RIYADH (Reuters) - They are few in number but determined to make their mark: Women journalists in Saudi Arabia have fought hard to get where they are and say they have more than proved themselves the equal of men. VEIL GOOD FACTOR: Journalists attend a news conference in Riyadh in this October 27, 2002 photo. They are few in number but determined to make their mark - women journalists in Saudi...