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Web revolution awaits Google chief in Myanmar
Mar 21, 2013 00:07 EDT
For years Myanmar's paranoid junta blocked websites such as Gmail and YouTube. However, when Google chairman Eric Schmidt visits this week, he will find a small but flourishing Internet community.
Web revolution awaits Google chief in Myanmar
Mar 20, 2013 22:33 EDT
For years Myanmar's paranoid junta blocked websites such as Gmail and YouTube. However, when Google chairman Eric Schmidt visits this week, he will find a small but flourishing Internet community.
Mali media to continue strike over journalist jailing
Mar 19, 2013 13:59 EDT
Mali's media announced on Tuesday they would continue a boycott of government coverage in protest over the detention of a journalist who published a letter criticising the former military junta chief.
Syria, China worst for online spying: RSF
Mar 12, 2013 23:11 EDT
Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said, urging controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to regimes clamping down on dissent.
Syria, China worst for online spying: RSF
Mar 11, 2013 22:19 EDT
Syria, China, Iran, Bahrain and Vietnam are flagrantly spying online, media watchdog RSF said Tuesday, urging controls on the export of Internet surveillance tools to regimes clamping down on dissent.
Rights campaigners slam Vietnam over cyber-dissidents
Mar 08, 2013 15:47 EST
Campaigners urged the UN Human Rights Council Friday to take Vietnam to task over its jailing of dozens of cyber-dissidents, claiming Hanoi was in breach of international law.
Libya TV channel owner, ex-director freed
Mar 08, 2013 14:08 EST
The owner and former director of a private Libyan television who were seized by gunmen in a raid on the channel's headquarters were freed on Friday, the station said.
Damascus hands German journalist to Russia envoy
Mar 05, 2013 10:27 EST
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad on Tuesday handed over to the Russian ambassador a German journalist, Billy Six, whose employers said they had not known for weeks whether he was alive.
Gunmen kill journalist in SW Pakistan
Mar 01, 2013 11:34 EST
Unidentified gunmen Friday shot dead a local journalist in southwest Pakistan's insurgency hit province of Baluchistan, officials said.
China journalist 'quit' after official pressure
Feb 28, 2013 12:39 EST
One of China's most celebrated journalists has left an outspoken newspaper, it confirmed on Thursday, after what two journalists said was official pressure over a series of investigative reports.
Gunmen kill journalist in Pakistan tribal area
Feb 27, 2013 10:54 EST
Unidentified attackers shot dead a senior local journalist in Pakistan's lawless northwestern tribal region on Wednesday, witnesses said.
Turkey blasts Assad regime as Aleppo toll rises
Feb 24, 2013 22:05 EST
Turkey lashed out against Syria as the death toll from a missile strike on Aleppo rose to 58, while a US official urged the opposition to reconsider its boycott of international meetings.
Turkey, US blast Assad regime as Aleppo toll rises
Feb 24, 2013 19:46 EST
Turkey and the United States lashed out against Syria as the death toll from a missile strike on Aleppo rose to 58, while a French photographer wounded in the conflict was confirmed dead.
French photographer dies after Syria shelling: ministry
Feb 24, 2013 12:46 EST
French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded in Syria on Thursday, has died of his wounds after surgery in Turkey, the foreign ministry said.
French photographer wounded in Syria 'critical': RSF
Feb 22, 2013 13:41 EST
French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded in Syria last month, was in critical condition Friday after an operation in Turkey, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said.
Shot Sri Lankan reporter says state now protecting him
Feb 20, 2013 05:08 EST
A Sri Lankan reporter shot in the neck at home last week said on Wednesday that the government had since given him protection and urged his supporters not to "rush into conclusions" over the attack.
Rights groups condemn Sri Lanka journalist shooting
Feb 19, 2013 03:16 EST
The "appalling shooting" of a senior reporter working for a privately-owned newspaper in Sri Lanka underscores the threats faced by journalists in the country, media rights groups said Tuesday.
Gaza children's funeral shot wins World Press Photo
Feb 15, 2013 11:27 EST
A photo of Gazans taking two children and their father killed in an Israeli air strike for burial has won the 2013 World Press Photo award for Swedish photographer Paul Hansen, judges said Friday.
Iraq frees French reporter held for taking photos
Feb 14, 2013 15:07 EST
Iraq on Thursday freed on bail a French reporter held for three weeks for allegedly taking unauthorised photographs of security installations in Baghdad.
Defamation case against Myanmar weekly dropped
Jan 31, 2013 14:22 EST
A defamation case by Myanmar's mining ministry against The Voice Weekly for reporting graft allegations was dropped Thursday, in the latest sign of easing pressure on the nation's long-muzzled media.
