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Prague, 9 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- There are fewer sources of information in Tajikistan these days. Independent media, especially newspapers, have been hit hard. Two dailies have simply vanished -- a fact that has been noticed by those selling newspapers. "The popularity of newspapers like 'Ruzi Nau' and 'Nerui Sukhan' was high among our customers, but they have not been putting them out lately...

A United Nations Development Program report recently said that Yemen is "infested with corruption" throughout all sectors including corruption monitoring agencies, and the Yemeni government lacks an effective system of exposing and checking corruption. Rampant corruption is a logical consequence of the concentration of power in Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh is the president, the head of the military...

Much like Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattercharya and his Marxist government’s attitude towards industrialisation and foreign capital that has been so much in the news of late, the well established Bengali magazines from the ABP stable have also evolved with the times. ‘Desh’, till sometime back a weekly and subsequently a fortnightly, is no longer an anachronistic and essentially literary magazine...

When I give talks about the Middle East there is invariably at least one person in the audience who asks a question along these lines: "Isn’t it true that we Americans are doing lots of good things in Iraq, but we never hear about it because the media simply refuse to report it?" My answer runs something like this: Iraq is both better and worse than what you see on TV. Better, because good things...

New Delhi, (UNI): Delhi High Court has observed that the government should think of changing the outdated law enacted by the British India relating to publication of newspapers in India. ''It is for the government to consider whether such outdated norms embodied in the Press and Registration of Books Act 1867, which are reflective of the expression of the imperial power of the ruler over printers...

America is wired. Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults use the Internet daily, 78 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds are online, and approximately 60 million people now have broadband service in their homes. "In the future, wireless connectivity will increase through laptops, cell phones and personal digital devices such as PalmPilots and BlackBerries," says a 2005 report by Lee Raine, project director...

Mumbai , July 22: NOW, persons making stock recommendations in the media have to disclose their holdings on the scrips being recommended. The Securities and Exchange Board of India has advised that media companies have to ensure that persons making investment advices disclose their holdings as well as that of their dependent family members and their employer in the particular company about which...

The BBC has introduced a section on its website for a variety of open source software projects. The projects include Media Lounge, a C++ application which "displays an interactive, shared virtual world, in which the content author can embed audio and video sequences," a video codec and modules for Apache and Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Together, the projects, for which source code is...

In South Korea, print newspapers used to be the "media king" that once held society together, but the rise of the Internet has undermined the role of the dailies as the major opinion leaders and is cutting into their ad revenue, industry sources say. Up until 2000, almost six in every 10 adults started the day with reading a newspaper. Politically, the major papers had earned their stars as...

The government today notified the June 16, 2005 decision of the Union Cabinet, which allowed foreign portfolio investment in Indian print media and printing of international editions of foreign newspapers in India. It has also notified increasing the levels of syndicated content to 20 per cent. The notification said permission will be granted only in cases where equity held by the largest Indian...