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New Delhi, May 29: Wage Boards for Journalists and Non-Journalists will be constituted "very soon", Union Labour Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao said today. This assurance was given by Rao to a delegation of Indian Journalists Union (IJU), which met him, to press for their demands, including the setting up of new wage boards for the newspaper industry employees. Admitting that the constitution of the...

New York, May 25, 2006–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by attacks on the Egyptian press related to coverage of alleged election fraud and protests over judicial independence. The Egyptian state security prosecutor brought criminal charges on Wednesday against three journalists who alleged fraud in last year’s parliamentary elections. Security and police officers assaulted...

New Delhi: In a move that will strengthen the public forum Citizen Journalist, that CNN-IBN provides to the citizens of India, IDEA cellular has joined hands with the channel and will enable the masses to use their mobile platform to report news of all genres- sports, general interest and entertainment. People can now report news items of importance from various parts of the country by sending in...

NEW YORK, May 25 (Reuters) - Help-wanted ads in U.S. newspapers and on the Internet fell in April, a private research group said on Thursday. The Conference Board said its gauge measuring help-wanted ad volume in the United States was 35 in April, down from 37 in March, which was revised down from a prior estimate of 38. The index was 39 in April 2005. New online job ads fell 6 percent in April...

EBay said today that Yahoo will sell advertising on its auction site and also will use eBay's Paypal service to handle payments. The deal comes as investors are increasingly concerned that eBay's highly profitable shopping service is being undercut as consumers increasingly use search engines to find Web sites selling products they are interested in. Moreover, there is a rise in free sites that...

(CIHRS/IFEX) - Today, on the first anniversary of the attacks made on referendum day, 24 Egyptian NGOs announced that the African Commission for Human and Peoples' Rights, of the African Union, has decided to take on the lawsuit that organizations have raised against the Egyptian government over the physical and sexual harassment a number of female journalists and political activists were...

(JED/IFEX) - On 25 May 2006, cameraman Ghislain Ngatieba, of the private station Radiotélévision Groupe l'Avenir (RTG), broadcast from Kinshasa, was beaten by a group of police officers who were providing security for the musical artist Ngiama Makanda, also known as Werrason. Ngatieba told JED that he was sent by the station to cover the arrival of the American star Shaggy in Kinshasa. "I was in...

(CEHURDES/IFEX) - CEHURDES condemns the act of burning of copies of a leading newspaper by a religious group and the manhandling of a photojournalist by police personnel. On 24 May 2006, a group of protesters stopped a vehicle belonging to Kantipur Publications Ltd. at Parawanipur, some 15 kilometres from the southern town of Birgunj. They took out all 1,700 copies of the newspaper and burnt them...

According to a report prepared by members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG), violations of freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association and other basic human rights are still rampant following the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), held in Tunisia in November 2005. The report, entitled "Deception and Lies...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 25, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that a request by a Venezuelan state assembly to evict the daily Correo del Caroní from its premises in a zoning dispute is an attempt to silence the newspaper's critical reporting on local government corruption. The Bolívar state legislature said in a May 19 report that publishing company Roderick Editorial...