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LUGANO, Switzerland: When riots erupted in the outskirts of many French cities last autumn, media around the world struggled to find a way to tell the story of those suburban areas, known as the banlieues. A Swiss magazine took the opportunity to try a new approach to online journalism, in an effort to report the issue in a deeper and perhaps more helpful way. What is emerging from the experiment...

A Caracas judge's decision last week to issue an order prohibiting news establishments from reporting on the investigation into the 2004 murder of prosecutor Danilo Anderson is being seen as an attempt by the state to censor the Venezuelan press. IN HIDING: Venezuelan journalist Patricia Poleo smiles during an interview with Channel 4 in Lima, Peru on Monday, January 9, 2006. Venezuela's attorney

The government of Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has renewed its battle against its most vocal detractor by disrupting the signal of the satellite-based television news station Asian Satellite TV (ASTV) and blocking access to a news website, both owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, Thaksin's most bitter critic. FLEXING HIS ALMS: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L) gives alms to a

The Guatemalan Association of Journalists has condemned the January 22 armed attack on the home of journalist Manuel Gilberto García and his family in the city of Jutiapa, an act of intimidation which follows threatening telephone calls he has been receiving since March 2001. Unidentified individuals shot at his home in the "El Condor" neighbourhood in the city of Jutiapa on the night of 22

Press freedom organisations have voiced outrage that the military government of Burma ended 2005 by censoring two privately-owned weeklies and then went on to refuse conditional release for Than Win Hlaing, a journalist who is very ill after spending six years in terrible prison conditions. CHILD IS THE.. : Burmese tribal children shout slogans during a protest in New Delhi January 24, 2006

A growing number of Yemeni journalists have become the victims of brutal assaults, arrests, intimidation, and government-sanctioned newspaper closures. They now also face the prospect of a new press law that would impose harsh restrictions on the media. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at a press conference in Yemen capital Sana'a on January 26, called on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to

With more Muslim countries clamming up on Denmark and Islamic radicals increasingly clamouring for a boycott of the Scandinavian country over the prophet cartoons controversy, trade relations between the Danish government and those in the Middle East stand in the danger of a possible breakdown. FARMED OFF: A Saudi man shopping at a Supermarket with empty shelf spaces that used to have Danish dairy

A reporter with a daily newspaper in Ontario may be imprisoned if he fails to comply with a court order to hand over to the police his notes of interviews with a convicted drug dealer. The police have asked reporter Bill Dunphy, who writes for the Hamilton Spectator, to turn over his interviews with drug dealer Paul Gravelle, according to the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). THE

PRAGUE, 29 January 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Supporters of the dismissed editor in chief of a Kyrgyz national newspaper are collecting signatures to petition President Kurmanbek Bakiev, Prime Minister Feliks Kulov, and parliament speaker Omurbek Tekebaev to withdraw the decision, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reported. An unpublished decree signed by Kulov on 27 January sacked Bakyt Orunbekov from his post at...

SAN`A, Yemen -- A lot of people were alarmed to see that Palestinians gave the terrorist Hamas organization an upset victory last week over the reputedly corrupt Fatah in parliament elections. But, in this part of the world, any change of power through ballots instead of bullets is a good day. The big news just happened to find me also in the Middle East, but at the other end of the Arabian...