"She was a wonderful person, kind and loving and can never be replaced." This is how distraught family and friends of Cindy Rajah described her after her tragic death on Thursday. Rajah, 46, was shot and killed by hijackers in Brickfield Road on Thursday afternoon. She worked as an advertising executive for the Post newspaper and was out working when the incident took place. Her brother-in-law...
Thousands of pro-government demonstrators yesterday surrounded Nation Tower, headquarters of Kom Chad Luek, to demand the newspaper turn over to the mob a reporter whom they allege wrote a story offensive to the monarchy. Composed of taxi and tuk-tuk drivers as well as members of Caravan of the Poor, a pro-Thaksin organization made up of rural farmers, the mob was dispersed after nearly eight...
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association voiced outrage today at the three-year prison sentences imposed on journalists U Thaung Sein and Ko Moe Htun for photographing and filming in the new capital, Pyinmana, and thereby allegedly violating article 32 (A) of the Television and Video Act. "It is a disgrace to see journalists arrested and sentenced just for taking pictures on the...
A political cartoon in Pakistan which satirises the relationship between President Musharraf and President Bush has been proving very popular. The "Bush and Mush Show" is a spoof of the news conference held during the recent visit of the US president and it is getting a lot of play. The punch line? Bush casually dismisses concerns over Mush's democratic credentials, in Pakistani street lingo. The...
A court in the Georgian capital Tbilisi has sentenced a founder and a director of the independent television channel "202" to jail terms for blackmail. The two men were found guilty of demanding money from a member of parliament in exchange for not showing film footage potentially hazardous for his reputation. Russia’s RIA-Novosti news agency reported that Shalva Ramishvili and David Kokhreidze...
WASHINGTON: Television journalists and producers from independent Arab television news stations will be able to obtain financial support for their research and productions this year, according to a press release issued last week by the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX). "Up to 10 television journalists and producers from Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman...
Banjul - Police in Gambia on Tuesday arrested the editor and the general manager of a privately-owned weekly magazine, The Independent, and closed the paper's offices, according to the country's press union. Demba Ali Jawo, co-ordinator of the Gambia Press Union (GPU), confirmed the arrests of general manager Madi Ceesay and editor Musa Saidy Khan. The Independent, which is critical of President...
Afghan women are a mystery to much of the world, their tales of tragedy, oppression, and occasional joy largely hidden from view. In large part this is because they lack anyone who can speak for them in the media. "If we want to know what is going on with Afghan women, we need to have more female journalists," said Malalai Shinwari, a former BBC reporter turned lawmaker. "A woman living at home is...
TEHRAN (AFP) - In a small cafe in Tehran's smog congested downtown, two disenchanted Iranian journalists have taken a break from their media jobs to serve up strong coffee and milkshakes to former colleagues. After deciding they had had enough of work in the "not so professional" atmosphere of Iran's media, the married couple earlier this month opened their coffee shop in an alley behind the main...
Abdullah Saeed (Fahala) started on Sunday what could be the beginning of a lifelong jail term following his conviction by a judge in the Criminal Court in Male’. The outspoken Minivan journalist was taken immediately from the courtroom to prison after being found guilty’ of disobedience to order’ for refusing to provide the police with a urine sample. The sentence could be a prelude, though, to...
