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THAILAND: FCCT Board Accused of Lese Majeste
For the first time in its five-decade history, the whole board of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand (FCCT) has been accused of committing lese majeste, a crime with maximum imprisonment sentence of 15 years.
50 Filipino Journalists Held, Freed
Around 50 Filipino journalists covering the situation of evacuation centres in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao were briefly held by the military for "lack of clearance", reported the country's major daily 'The Philippine Daily Inquirer' on June 30, 2009.
PAKISTAN: Security Forces Fire at Journalists
PESHAWAR, June 9 — The Khyber Union of Journalists (KhUJ) has strongly condemned the firing on media persons at the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) area of Malakand in Pakistan by security forces Tuesday.

'Asia Media Report 2009: Missing in the Media'

The 'Asia Media Report 2009: Missing in the Media', coordinated, produced and published by the Asia Media Forum with the assistance of Actionaid, focuses on how the media throughout Asia reports on marginalised people and communities in their respective societies, from the very poorest countries to the richest.
'Asia Media Report: A Crisis Within'

'Asia Media Report: A Crisis Within', a report on media trends in Asia, is produced and coordinated by IPS Asia-Pacific.

MIDEAST: When You Shoot the Messenger

Posted: 2008-07-04

By Mel Frykberg

GAZA CITY, Jul 3 (IPS) - The assault of IPS Gaza correspondent Mohammed Omer has left Israeli security personnel with a lot of explaining to do. And they are not doing a very good job of it.

Omer was abused and assaulted by Israeli security personnel at the Allenby border crossing into Israel from Jordan as he tried to return to his home last week in the Gaza Strip.

Omer was returning from Europe where he had addressed European parliamentarians on the situation on the ground in Gaza. In London he picked up a prize as joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (along with IPS correspondent Dahr Jamail).

Omer, who also reports for The Washington Report, told IPS he was verbally abused, strip-searched at gunpoint and physically beaten. He was later hospitalised with broken ribs and related trauma.

Israeli officials denied to IPS in Jerusalem that the award-winning journalist had been mistreated. They said the Gazan journalist had "lost his balance" after being searched on "suspicion of smuggling in illegal items."

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AMF Releases 'Asia Media Report 2009' in Mumbai
The 'Asia Media Report 2009: Missing in the Media', produced by the Asia Media Forum (AMF), was released at a function jointly organised by the AMF and The Press Club, Mumbai (India) at the club's conference hall on May 7.

Prominent senior journalist and editor of the Mumbai daily 'Loksatta' Kumar Ketkar was on hand to release the report.

The report, launched at the Asia Media Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in March, will be released in different countries in Asia and the Mumbai event was the first of such events.

12% of All Journalists Have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder — Expert
It's an old, wry joke among journalists — especially those who cover armed conflict: "I'm the guy running toward the gunfire when everyone else is running away."

With such a high-stakes, high-stress lifestyle, it's no wonder many journalists return from war zones with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
Google Peddling Porn — China
After going after the health websites suspected of spreading porn, the Chinese government's cyber censors are now snipping their virtual cyber scissors at Google Inc for allegedly "spreading pornography".
China Cracks Down on 'Health Porn'
China's Ministry of Health on June 24 moved to stop sexual health websites being used as fronts for pornography.

MEDIA: Agents of Brands – Not of Change
By Milind Kokje*

Non-implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is akin to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day and a tsunami hitting a country each week. Every year, 10 million children die before they reach the age of five, as 800 million people suffer from hunger. Poverty claims more victims than war does.
'Journalists are Human Beings with Emotions and Subjective Views on Everything'
Journalists have a moral obligation to understand and cover issues on human rights, stated Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project director Alan Davis in a media conference in the Philippine capital of Manila last year.

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