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PRAGUE, March 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Khommadov spoke first about his physical condition, but he indicated that he was under the surveillance of security officials at his home in Turkmenistan. "Now I feel well," he says. "Very well. But in the village during all these days the [National Security Ministry or MNB] officers or some other security force employees are keeping watch over us." Khommadov and...

Meg Scholz, a senior at the University of Texas, goes online at least a few times every day to check her e-mail. When she does, Scholz invariably scans several news websites and blogs to see what's going on in the world. She rarely picks up a newspaper or watches TV news, because for her, the Web serves virtually all her news needs. "It's not that I have anything against reading a printed...

Romanian journalists George Buhnici, sued for illegal possession and use of special surveillance devices (SSD), was finally acquitted, his lawyer announced. This happened after the Supreme Cassation Court withdrew the disctrict prosecutors objection against the acquittal of the journalists. George Buhnici, an investigative journalist from commercial PRO TV, was seized 16 November 2004 in the...

IMPHAL, Mar 22: All Manipur Working Journalists` Union invites application from print and electronic journalist from Manipur for award of AMWJU Media Fellowship - 2006 on the theme Rural Development reporting in the state. Altogether four fellowships are to be awarded, three for print journalists and one for electronic journalist. However, the amount of the fellowships for both print and...

Prague, March 22 (CTK) - The Czech Foreign Ministry has officially protested against a brutal attack on Czech reporter Jan Rybar from the daily Mlada fronta Dnes in the centre of Belarussian capital Minsk last Sunday night, the ministry press section informed CTK today. The Czech Republic asked the Belarussian authorities to investigate the incident as soon as possible. The Czech Foreign Ministry...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Google this week launched a beta version of Google Finance, providing financial news and data from partners with long histories in reporting on business, such as Reuters. Why would Reuters, a long-established news authority, want to subsume its brand under Google’s? Easy: No Web site drives traffic like Google. With the Web site’s spare design and flash-friendly features...

NEW YORK (AP)--Nearly four in five marketers surveyed believe that television advertising is less effective than it was just two years ago, according to a study released Wednesday. That's bad news for a nervous TV industry, which is worried about what the growth in digital-video-recorder, or DVR, usage and video-on-demand will mean for the economic underpinnings of the business. The joint survey...

In recognition of an imaginative campaign for water conservation, an Indian daily newspaper today received the $20,000 biennial prize for rural communications awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Malayala Manorama, published in Kerala, launched its Many a Drop campaign in May 2004 to disseminate a new perspective on water to the local population...

Ibéyise Pacheco, the El Nacional columnist sentenced to house arrest last Wednesday for defaming the character of Col. Angel Bellorín, was freed by Judge Belén Gamboa on Tuesday. In an interview with Globovisión immediately following her release, Pacheco framed the verdict as a victory for freedom of speech and of the press in Venezuela, saying she considered herself, "the representative of all...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – An Iraqi cameraman working for CBS News when he was wounded and detained by the U.S. military will be tried next month, CBS officials said Wednesday. Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein's trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday, but an Iraqi judge postponed the proceedings until April 5, said Larry Doyle, the CBS bureau chief in Baghdad. Charges against Hussein have not been made public...