Asian Media

If you were a journalist and one day were invited by the government to leave on umrah (small hajj) for free, would you say yes to it? How about going on trip to Malaysia and Singapore (again, for free) so you can conduct a comparative study? If your answer is “yes”, then you’re not alone. Forty Lampung [...]

After year-long consultations with university faculties, journalist training organizations, newspaper industries and journalism education associations, UNESCO produced a document on model journalism curricula. This document is launched in Singapore at the World Journalism Education Congress (26/6). Specialized for Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies, it is a generic model that can be adapted according to each country’s [...]

Information and Communications Minister of Indonesia Muhammad Nuh said whether or not Press Law No. 40/1999 should be revised was entirely up to the press community, on a visit to Antara News Agency early this week. “Well, it is up to you, journalists, to decide and the government will go along.” This statement is in response to [...]

Why has Asian media failed in delivering news about the region? According to a report by ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau, it is mainly because they are narrow-minded and limited in scope. This is just one of the topics debated at the 4th Asia-Europe Foundation’s Asia Europe Journalists’ Seminar on May 27 in Hamburg, Germany.

Asian Media Information and Communication Centre is holding its 16th annual conference on the 25 - 28 June, 2007. That means three days ahead.

You might want to check this out. It’s written by Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi (chairman of Arab Media Watch), in response to the campaign by Melanie Phillips against the organisation, “and the hate mail it has generated”. …….. Given the hate mail, or in most cases “race mail”, generated by Phillips’ call for her readers to write [...]

 Nice move. From AsiaNewsNetwork: The authorities have started a crackdown on cyber scams, blocking access to six illegal investment websites and raiding the offices of an Internet firm in the Klang Valley. In a press statement released yesterday, the Securities Commission said the six websites were www.abbfund.com or www.abfund.us, www.cfdventure.com, www.swedenfund.com, www.uebond.com, www.esuissefund.com or www.efmf.com.pa and www.ecashfinance.com. Please [...]

I really have no idea what these Palestinian gunmen had in mind. JERUSALEM: Palestinian gunmen who used a vehicle disguised as a television truck to assault an Israeli military position drew sharp condemnations yesterday from journalists who charged that the incident, the first of its kind, would make their jobs more dangerous than ever. In Saturday’s [...]

Vietnam government last month set out a new regulation that ordered state administration agencies to have a spokesperson, who will be making announcements and providing information to the media. He/she also must provide accurate and timely information to the media if there is an event or problem that requires the state agency to make an [...]

On Wednesday, June 7th, The South Asia Media Commission (SAMC) lashed out against a Pakistan government crackdown on media freedom, Daily Times wrote. “The media is directly under attack. The new rules could have a chilling effect on Pakistan’s civil society,” Mr N Ram, the Chairperson of the commission, and Mr Najam Sethi, its General Secretary, [...]