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The brutal murder of a young journalist near the capital town of Dhaka has once again brought to light why Bangladesh remains the most dangerous place for a journalist to be in the world next to Iraq. Bangladesh was ranked 151 by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) in its Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2005. HEADLINES TODAY: A youth reads a daily at a roadside vendor in Dhaka. Journalists in

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 (Bernama) -- The Gulf country Oman is so impressed with Malaysia's proposed Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) that it sees no reason why it cannot become a reality. Oman's head to the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) of the Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (Cominac VI) Osama Alharemi said that Malaysia's presentation of the...

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has closed down Karachi-based radio station Mast FM 103 for retransmitting a BBC World Service programme in Urdu about Pakistan's recent earthquake. The station was charged with violating PEMRA by-laws. PEMRA officials assisted by the local police raided the FM 103 radio station and seized its transponders, antennae and other broadcast

Ethiopian authorities are hunting down journalists, civil society activists and opposition leaders in a bid to clamp down on government critics following public protests that left more than 40 dead at the hands of security forces, report the Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association (EFJA), the International Press Institute (IPI), Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Committee to Protect

Armed policemen and intelligence personnel besieged the offices of Monitor Publications Ltd in Ugandan capital Kampala on Thursday night marking the culmination of a weeklong witch hunt of independent Daily Monitor newspaper. The raid is beng seen as President Yoweri Museveni's efforts to neutralise support for imprisoned opposition leader Kizza Besigye. RUN FOR COVER: A Ugandan journalist runs

A court in Yemen's capital Sanaa has imposed a fine of one million Yemeni rial on opposition newspaper Al-Thowri and banned two of its journalists from writing for six months. The court on Saturday said the newspaper will have to issue an apology on the last page for three successive editions to two government officials based on defamation charges. FREEDOM OF THE PREZ: President Ali Abdullah Saleh

A Swedish journalist who spent four years in an Eritrean prison for demanding press freedom in the east African country was unexpectedly released Saturday. Dawit Isaak was "feeling really well" after leaving prison, said Leif Obrink, the leader of a Swedish organisation that had fought for the journalist's release. Sofia Beharane, second right, and her three children Yoran, left, Betlehem, second

Member countries of the Non- Aligned Movement (NAM) should stand up strongly against the bias given by Western media, Cuban Ambassador to Malaysia Pedro Monzon Barata said in KUALA LUMPUR. Cuba and the Cuban people have always been portrayed by the Western press in a negative light while foreign visitors, when setting foot on this land, will find a different picture and expose those lies, Monzon...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's effort to set up the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) News Network (NNN) is close to reality after receiving unanimous support from senior officials preparing for the Sixth Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-Aligned Countries (COMINAC VI) here. Information Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Siti Balkish Mohamed Shariff said there were no...

Ukranian parliament has overwhelmingly approved a bill prohibiting state authorities from carrying out inspections of media groups during the forthcoming parliamentary election campaign, report agencies. RED RIDING HOODS: Reporters dressed in red overcoats hang a dummy made from Ukrainian newspapers during a protest near the parliament in Kiev November 17, 2005. Leading reporters staged a rally to