Development Issues
INDIA: Mobile Phone-Based News System Gives Voice to Tribals |
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By Keya Acharya BANGALORE, India, May 5, 2010 (IPS) - The central Indian remote jungles of Chhattisgarh and the urban technology- savvy node of Bangalore are now linked by a mobile phone-based information system, a first in the world, called CGnet Swara. |
U.N. Blasted for Sequestering NGOs and Media |
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By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 (IPS) - A major structural renovation of the U.N. Secretariat is being used as a pretext to curb media access to delegates and Security Council members, and is also a veritable smokescreen to tighten restrictions on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) accredited to the world body, critics say. |
Asian Media Urged to 'Expand Influence' |
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By Wu Jiao and Zhao Huanxin — 'China Daily' BEIJING — Asian media should increase their influence to match the growing economic clout of the continent, a top Chinese official has said. |
NEPAL: Women Call for Equality, Recognition On-Air |
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By Kishor Pradhan A woman's quest for equality and a venue to present women's issues has led to the creation of an all-women radio station in Nepal. |
CHINA: World Media Summit to Explore Media Development, Survival |
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BEIJING (Xinhua) -- The World Media Summit under the theme of 'Cooperation, Action, Win-Win and Development' will explore ways of survival and development for the global media industry, said Li Congjun, president of Xinhua News Agency here on Wednesday. |
THAILAND: Women Reel from Unemployment |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, Mar 6 (Asia Media Forum) - "Please help me find a way to have some money for milk," pleaded Benjawan Marongthong, a mother of two young boys who used to work in a garments factory. Laid off two years ago and unable to find work at a time when the ranks of the unemployed are growing amid the global economic downturn, Benjawan is almost at the end of her rope. |
PHILIPPINES/Q&A: ‘The Poor Need the Media’ |
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"Street papers provide a service to the people that governments have not been able to give," says 'The Jeepney' editor in chief William Shaw. The challenges, however, are many and for the Philippines' first ever street paper, Shaw and his staff need the help of all concerned groups and individuals to make the magazine a part of the reading habit of Filipinos. Shaw shares with the Asia Media Forum his views about 'The Jeepney' and its important role in Filipino society. |
PHILIPPINES: Jobs Come Aboard ‘Jeepney’ Street Paper |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal |
THAILAND: How to Sell 'Sustainable Reporting' |
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By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, Oct 30 (Asia Media Forum) — As environmental issues become more 'trendy', environmental journalists are hard pressed to be more creative in selling green stories to the public. |
'Poverty of Purpose' Rampant in the Media |
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Analysis by Milind Kokje* The media seem to have lost their way. They not only have forgotten their social agenda but have also lost their very purpose due to the rampant commercialisation of the media 'business'. With this 'poverty of purpose', how can anyone expect this profession to help in eradicating poverty worldwide? |
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)'. 
