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Danish industry is speaking out against the country’s prime minister as they believe his fight for press freedom is going too far, according to Danish daily Berlingske Tidende. Niels Due Jensen, the director of the major Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos, indicated in that his company, with nearly 5,000 workers in Denmark, might leave the country because of the aftermath of the Mohammed Cartoons...

KUALA LUMPUR , Mar 2 (IPS) - The Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy is trailing blood in Malaysian newsrooms at a time when mainstream media showed signs of emerging into the sunshine, after two decades of serving as the mouthpiece of the dictatorial former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. At least three newspapers were punished for their reports on the controversy and several television...

New Delhi, March. 2 (PTI): Alok Tomar, Editor of 'Senior India' magazine, arrested for reproducing a caricature of Prophet Muhammed drawn by a Danish cartoonist, was today granted bail by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Chandra Shekhar, granted bail to the Hindi journalist for a bond of Rs 50,000 with a personal surety of like amount. Tomar was arrested by the Defence Colony Police in South...

YAOUNDE -- Therese Bella Mbida, Cameroon's first woman journalist as well as a filmmaker and pilot, has died in a Yaounde hospital at the age of 73, her family said on Thursday. Mbida, better known as Sita Bella, "died on Monday in the greatest destitution, abandoned and alone, after being thrown out of the flat she lived in the Messa district", one of her nephews said. After being taken to an old...

A presentation by two Lakeview High School students trying to warn classmates about the dangers of putting personal information on the Internet led to their teacher being escorted from the St. Clair Shores building because administrators thought pictures used in the project were too risque. The segment, roughly eight minutes, that was broadcast to the entire school Tuesday on its in-house TV...

Al-Jazeera International is the new English-language spin-off of Al-Jazeera, the controversial Arab network that broadcasts from Doha, Qatar. Like the original channel, Al-Jazeera International (AJI) is owned by the emir of Kuwait, who allows the station to operate with a great deal of independence. The new channel will break from the traditional Arab-focused format of Al-Jazeera by broadcasting...

DOHA, Qatar - This spring, the TV channel reviled for showing U.S. prisoners of war, hostage videos and messages from Osama bin Laden will launch an English-language spin-off, finally allowing Americans and other Westerners to judge Al-Jazeera for themselves. To the Bush administration and other critics, Al-Jazeera is a dangerous platform for terrorists and an anti-American propaganda tool known...

Internet advertising revenues surpassed $3 billion for the second consecutive quarter in Q4 of 2005, according to an estimate from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The researchers found revenues reached $3.6 billion in the last three months of 2005, which represents a 17 percent increase over Q3 2005. It also marks a 35 percent increase over the same...

IRVINE, California (CNN) -- A controversy that has sparked violent demonstrations across the Middle East and Asia came to a U.S. college campus as a display of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed drew about 200 protesters. Security was increased for the student forum Tuesday night at the University of California, Irvine, but police reported no violence. Last week, members of the Muslim Student Union...

PARIS, March 1, 2006 (UPI) -- A group of a dozen prolific writers have written a statement condemning the violent reaction to the publishing of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Most of the writers have been threatened for writing perceived anti-Muslim works, the BBC reports. The writers' statement said the upheaval shows the need to address freedom, secular values and religious fanaticism. It was...