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BEIJING (Reuters) - China defended its latest rules controlling foreign access to domestic media and television on Tuesday, saying the government was simply protecting intellectual property rights but was still committed to an open market. Senior officials also said Chinese people preferred reading foreign magazines on science and technology -- which are permitted by the government -- and that...

«Imagine that you are in the year 1994. Your breakfast consists of substitute coffee brewed on the solar stove and you are reading your electronic daily newspaper with all the news which your home computer can hold» That is how the foreword of the classic book "The Network Station" ended, written in 1978 by two computer network specialists, Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff. Well, 1994 has...

IMPHAL, Apr 17: Imphal-based newspapers will be suspending publication from Wednesday in protest against the arbitrary detention of six senior journalists last night by a faction of the underground KCP and strictures imposed upon the Imphal Free Press. The IFP however has not received any official ban notice from any underground group as yet. Members of the media fraternity will also be staging a...

Imphal, April 17: The journalists community of Manipur today came out strongly against the KCP (City Meetei) for luring five Editors of different newspaper establishments and the News Editor of ISTV to a designated destination and holding them hostage for a night to get its press release published. The Editors were released today morning. Strongly reacting to the incident a joint meeting of all...

Coimbatore, April 17: The Coimbatore Press Club (CPC) today condemned the "barbaric" attack on the reporter and photographer of a Tamil eveninger at nearby Pollachi, last evening. "The attack on the lensman and reporter of 'Tamil Murasu', is said to have been carried out by AIADMK supporters in a deliberate attempt to cover up violation of the model code of conduct," CPC president V S Palaniappan...

KUALA LUMPUR: A group of developing countries started an Internet-based news service on Monday, pooling their media resources to provide an alternative to what officials said was unfair coverage by the Western media. The Malaysian national news agency Bernama is host of the NAM News Network, a joint effort of the 114 member countries of the Nonaligned Movement, a grouping that pledged to remain...

Hindustan Times Media Ltd, the publishers of leading daily Hindustan Times, will launch an English business daily soon for which the company has appointed Raju Narisetti as Head of Editorial. HT Media plans to launch an English language business daily newspaper and website in the next few months. Raju Narisetti will report to Rajiv Verma, CEO, HT Media. Announcing the appointment, Verma said, "In...

(RSF/IFEX) - A Reporters Without Borders team stationed itself with a video player outside Yahoo!'s California headquarters on 7 April 2006 and stopped employees as they left the building, offering to show them videos filmed in China of people criticising Yahoo!'s cooperation with the Chinese police. The videos, which can be downloaded from the Reporters Without Borders website ( http://www.rsf...

New York, April 14, 2006 - Prosecutors in the western city of Kaliningrad have filed criminal libel charges against Arseny Makhlov, publisher of the weekly Dvornik, the Moscow-based news agency Regnum reported today. The charges relate to three articles in Dvornik during 2004 and 2005 which criticized a local prosecutor for accepting money to close a fraud case against a government official. "This...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced deep concern about a wave of harassment and arrests of journalists working for the opposition newspaper "Minivan". Mohamed Yushau, its correspondent in the south of the country, was arrested on 9 April 2006 for allegedly refusing to respond to a police summons and was put in Dhoonidhoo prison near Male. Musa Ismael, a correspondent in the southwest...