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CAIRO, March 5, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – In response to an invitation from the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute, two delegates from IslamOnline.net will be traveling, along with a small group of Egyptian journalists and academics, to Denmark on Sunday, March 12, for meetings with Danish media representatives and Danish Muslims. "The goal of the visit is to give journalists from IOL, [Egyptian...

NEW YORK (AP) _ The daughter of renowned British journalist Alistair Cooke says she's haunted by the gruesome news that her father's body was illegally sold by a funeral home to a tissue-processing plant. Susan Cooke Kittredge, in an op-ed piece published in Sunday's New York Times, recalled her reaction when a detective from the Brooklyn district attorney's office telephoned her shortly before...

A media expert yesterday urged journalists and reporters to be more conscientious and disciplined, especially when covering stories in which a suspect has not yet been proven guilty. The call came in the wake of the suicide of a junior high school teacher in Taichung City who was accused last week of having an affair with one of his students. The teacher was being prosecuted for the affair after...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Hyo-bi doesn't want her picture taken any more. Not after the 22-year-old student's portrait wound up on a photo-sharing Web site last summer with her face colored and distorted to make her look silly, titled alongside the original as "Before and After." She tried to simply forget about it, but she couldn't. She was barraged with calls from friends who saw the page, and...

BEIJING (AP) – China's government is trying to boost public interest in its figurehead parliament and its companion advisory body by setting up Web logs for members as they meet this week. Called "bo ke" in Chinese, blogs are popular with young people despite strict censorship rules. In one posting, National People's Congress delegate Zhou Hongyu wrote that serving in the legislature is a way to...

Security experts have long warned computer users to beware of links that come via instant messenger or e-mail, the most common ways for adware, spyware and other bad stuff to get into your PC. But few people think twice about the unfamiliar links that turn up after a Google, MSN or Yahoo search and how those sites might also expose users to a security risk. For the past few weeks I've been surfing...

IN A nation where corruption is often just another day at the office, it was a gratifying victory for freedom of the press in Indonesia when its supreme court ruled that a magazine had not libeled a businessman. Corruption is probably the greatest impediment to economic growth and development in Indonesia, the southeast Asian nation that's home to more Muslims than anywhere in the world. Nor does...

Kingston – A woman who made disparaging comments about her landlord on her Internet blog has become the latest person to discover what can happen when cyberspace and legal realities collide. Sarah Dawe is facing eviction for her postings related to an ongoing dispute with Homestead Land Holdings Inc. Ms. Dawe says she was stunned to find herself on the receiving end of such an action. "When I got...

The Ministry of Defence has formally stated for the first time that the British military will never deliberately target journalists in conflict zones, but admits that mistakes do happen. After mounting pressure as the media death toll in Iraq climbs, the MoD has officially recognised the issue of safety for journalists. The MoD's "green book", which outlines arrangements with the media, now...

A Canadian journalist is facing deportation from Uganda over his coverage of political events in the country. Mr Blake Lambert, a correspondent for The Economist and Christian Science Monitor is caught up in a battle between the Media Council, the official regulator of the media in Uganda and the newly created government Media Centre. In January, the Media Centre, run by Mr Robert Kabushenga...