Environment and Health
Burmese Authorities Deny Plague Reports |
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By Wai Moe Burmese authorities denied on Saturday that there has been an outbreak of the plague in areas east of the Pegu mountain range, saying that the National Health Department has found no evidence of the disease in dead rats taken from areas considered at risk. |
Thailand Fights Addiction to Plastic Bags |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, Jun 28 (Asia Media Forum/IPS)Buy a hairpin and the sales clerk has a microscopic plastic bag for it. A soda purchase from a corner store may end up having the liquid poured into a plastic bag, and then topped off with a plastic straw. There isn’t a plastic bag yet that could fit a car, but if there is one country that could come up with one, Thailand would probably be it.
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INDIA: Climate Change via FM |
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By Teresa Rehman* SHILLONG, India (AlertNet) - Climate change issues are reaching a remote new audience in Meghalaya, a hilly state in northeast India, via 'Mawsawa,' a popular FM radio music show. |
India Blocks Foreign Newsmen from Environ Course |
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The Indian Foreign Ministry has declined to allow foreign journalists to participate in an environmental journalism course focusing on coastal management scheduled to be held in the southern Tamil Nadu city of Tuticorin ongoing until Nov. 6. |
MEDIA-ENVIRONMENT: Scepticism Chic |
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By Darryl D'Monte Journalists are cynical by nature, and it is perhaps understandable that some in India continue to retain a certain degree of scepticism about climate change – over whether it is truly taking place, being exaggerated or, worse still, whether it is little more than a conspiracy concocted by a handful of vested interests for unclear purposes. |
An Indian Newspaper Thinks 'Positive' |
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Positive +, a free bilingual newspaper brought out on a laptop from Asma Naseer’s living room is India’s first newspaper on HIV/AIDS. The paper’s commitment to building up a friendship with the reader and its innovative design have made it popular in and around Chennai where it already faces a demand for more copies than the 5000 it can afford to print, reports Papri Sri Raman of Inforchange Media. |
Asian Media Playing the Waiting Game on H1N1 Flu? |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, May 1(AMF) - While the international media have been gone quite 'feverish' in their coverage of human swine flu, the media in this region appears to have remained relatively calm. |
ASIA: Media, Accidental Environmentalists? |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, Apr 6 (AMF) - As the first round of climate change talks get under way in Bonn, Germany, Asia’s media are taking stock of how environment issues have taken hold not only of the public, but also on the Fourth Estate itself. |
TELEVISION-ASIA: Selling Science |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, Nov 28 (Asia Media Forum) - A ‘weak’ science culture, commercial pressures in the broadcast industry, a lack of TV educational programming for youngsters, as well as boring formats, combine to make it difficult for science journalism to gain a foothold in countries like Thailand. |
Climate Change or Climate Change?: Guarding Copyrights on a Warming Planet |
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COLOMBO, Nov 7 — On a recent visit to Tokyo, I watched Climate in Crisis, an excellent documentary co-produced in 2006 by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK along with The Science Channel and ALTOMEDIA/France 5. The film draws heavily on the Earth Simulator — one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers — which scientists use to project our planet's climate. It can anticipate climatic patterns in the atmosphere and the oceans over the next 100 years. |
Aung Htun (not his real name) is one of the young video journalists featured in the award-winning feature documentary 'Burma VJ (Reporting from a Closed Country)'. 
