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Asia Media Forum Report 2011 – Climate Change

This is the third Asia Media Report. Each edition focuses on a contemporary theme and it was almost inevitable that this book singled out Climate Change as the compelling preoccupation of the media in recent months.
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Democracy of Un-public Opinion (Or the court’s contempt of public opinion)

By Nurul Kabir (Published in New Age, October 3, 2010)

NO DOUBT the odds are against dissenters in any nation’s judicial system. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see...
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VIETNAM: Journalist Beaten Up for Reporting About Smuggling

By V. Phuc D.Quang (Translated by Hoang Yen)

Tran The Dung, a correspondent for ‘Nguoi Lao Dong’ newspaper, was assaulted January 6 while gathering information about smuggling in Lang Son Province in Vietnam’s northern mountains during the lunar year-end.

That evening Dung took pictures of motorbikes...
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BURMA: Taking Over the Airwaves

Private FM radio stations are sprouting up all over Burma, offering listeners a variety of entertainment and, of course, government propaganda, writes Burmese journalist Ko Htwe in ‘Read more »

PAKISTAN: The Journalists’ Burden

By Shaheen Buneri – Newsline Magazine*

When society is passing through a transitional period, and centuries-old social and cultural institutions are razed to the ground, journalists are left with no...
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PAKISTAN: Press Club Blames Militants for Blast, Vows to Write Truth

By Ashfaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR, Dec 23 — The administration of the Peshawar Press Club has blamed militants for Tuesday’s blast and has vowed to expose those killing innocent people...
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