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SLOVAKIA: Govt Wins First Battle Against Media
By Zoltán Dujisin
PRAGUE - In the midst of a war against the media, the government has passed a controversial press bill that journalists and opposition alike say endangers freedom of the press.
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SOUTH ASIA: Differing on Right to Information
By Kalinga Seneviratne
DHAKA - The right to information (RTI), as espoused by the United Nations and international human rights organisations, does not have full endorsement from South Asian media practitioners and scholars.
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BURMA: Foreigners, Cameras Banned in Cyclone-Hit Areas
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.
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POLITICS: Gulf Seen Between Democracy in Theory and Practice
By JimLobe
WASHINGTON - The basic democratic principle that "the will of the people should be the basis for the authority of government" is supported by overwhelming majorities throughout the world, according to a major new survey of more than 17,000 adults in 19 countries released here Monday.
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RIGHTS-JAPAN: Broadcasters Break Hanging Secrecy Taboos
By Catherine Makino
TOKYO - The final seconds in the life of a Japanese death row inmate -- the rasping muffled last words, the trapdoor springing open, the whip of a noose and a Buddhist gong signalling the end -- has made radio history here, waking listeners up to what goes on in one of the most secretive execution systems in the world.
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POLITICS-US: Lawmakers Seek Probe of "Media Generals"
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As U.S. television networks continue their silence about their use of retired military officers to "sell" progress in Iraq, members of the U.S. House of Representatives are calling on the Defence Department Inspector General to investigate the Pentagon-sponsored public relations effort.
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EUROPE: The Newspaper World Suffers Another Blow
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - The financial crisis in the French newspaper Le Monde, that led to an unprecedented two-day strike in mid-April, is symptom of a growing crisis in the print media in France, and in several other European countries.
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MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Caught Between State and Non-State Actors
By Zofeen Ebrahim
KARACHI - "My captivity only brought honour upon me," is how journalist Suhail Qalandar sees his ordeal at the hands of kidnappers last year. He was talking with IPS over the phone from Peshawar, capital of the North West Frontier Province.
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FIJI: Aussie Journo Expelled on Press Freedom Day Eve
By Shailendra Singh
SUVA - Fiji’s interim government has come under withering criticism both nationally and internationally for the deportation on Friday of the Australian publisher of the leading ‘Fiji Times’ daily, Evan Hannah.
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MEDIA-ASIA: More Than Just Freedom
By Lynette Lee Corporal
BANGKOK - More than gaining the freedom to report on society’s problems Asian media must gauge it’s real contribution to the public‘s needs, especially at a time of increasing commercialisation.
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RIGHTS: Impunity Reigns in Journalist Murders
By Mirela Xanthaki
NEW YORK - Over the last 15 years, at least 500 journalists were killed directly because of their work. But in less than 15 percent of cases have the perpetrators been brought to justice, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
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EGYPT: New Strike to Greet Mubarak
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - Hundreds remain in detention following a nationwide protest Apr. 6 against rising food prices and political stagnation. But this has not deterred activists from calling for a second general strike on May 4, timed to coincide with President Hosni Mubarak's birthday.
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RIGHTS: People Everywhere Support Free Media
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - Sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserted the individual's right to "receive and impart information and ideas through any media", it appears that most of the world's people agree, at least in principle.
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Globalisation is more than free trade: it means real-time interconnection of peoples, no matter the distance. And development is more than economic growth: it is access to information, freedom of expression, and bridging the digital gap between rich and poor. IPS tracks the vital role that communication -- in all its various forms -- plays in our ever-changing world.