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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.

41 Journalists Killed in 2008 — CPJ

Posted: 2009-01-05

The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released statistics on the number of journalists killed either in the line of duty or were deliberately targeted for assassination in 2008.

A total of 41 confirmed cases were recorded in 2008 11 of which happened in war-torn Iraq, followed by Pakistan with five and Georgia and Thailand with three each. The number of unconfirmed cases of media-related killings totaled 22 with Mexico topping the list with four cases.

Meanwhile, the number of journalists imprisoned as of Dec 1, 2008 reached 125 with China having the most number of jailed journos with 28, followed by Cuba with 21, and Eritrea with 13.

Total Confirmed Cases For 2008: 41

AFGHANISTAN: 2
BOLIVIA: 1
CAMBODIA: 1
CROATIA: 1
GEORGIA: 3
INDIA: 4
IRAQ: 11
ISRAEL AND THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: 1
MEXICO: 1
PAKISTAN: 5
PHILIPPINES: 2
RUSSIA: 2
SOMALIA: 2
SRI LANKA: 2
THAILAND: 3

TOTAL UNCONFIRMED CASES FOR 2008: 22

BULGARIA: 1
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 1
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 1
GUATEMALA: 2
INDIA: 1
IRAQ: 3
KENYA: 1
MEXICO: 4
NEPAL: 1
PAKISTAN: 1
PHILIPPINES: 3
RUSSIA: 2
VENEZUELA: 1

TOTAL MEDIA WORKERS KILLED FOR 2008: 3

CROATIA: 1
IRAQ: 2

Annual Prison Census
Journalists in prison as of December 1, 2008
Total: 125

AFGHANISTAN: 1
ARMENIA 1
AZERBAIJAN: 5
BANGLADESH: 1
BURMA: 14
BURUNDI: 1
CAMEROON: 2
CHINA: 28
CUBA: 21
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 2
ECUADOR: 1
EGYPT: 1
ERITREA: 13
ETHIOPIA: 2
THE GAMBIA: 1
IRAN: 5
IRAQ in U.S. custody: 1
IRAQ in Iraqi Kurdistan custody: 1
ISRAEL and the OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY: 4
IVORY COAST: 1
MALDIVES: 1
PERU: 2
PHILIPPINES: 1
RUSSIA: 2
SENEGAL: 1
SINGAPORE: 1
SRI LANKA: 3
UZBEKISTAN: 6
VIETNAM: 2

For the complete details, visit the following links:

http://www.cpj.org/deadly/2008.php

http://cpj.org/reports/2008/12/cpjs-2008-prison-census-online-and-in-jail.php

http://cpj.org/imprisoned/2008.php

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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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