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COMMUNICATION-GUYANA: Proposed Legislation to End Free TV Ride

By IPS Correspondents
It's Saturday night and discos, cinemas and restaurants are practically empty because nearly everyone is at home waiting for the upcoming Mike Tyson fight.

MEDIA-GULF: Media Try to Come Out of the State’s Shadow

By IPS Correspondents
Long working from the shadows of the omnipresent state, the media in the Arabian Gulf region are showing some signs of openness. But journalists believe the real challenge will be to keep open the door of independence.

RIGHTS-COLOMBIA: Society Demands that FARC Release Reporters

By IPS Correspondents
Residents of the northeastern Colombian oil town and port of Barrancabermeja are holding a march Tuesday demanding that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) release four reporters and three photo-journalists taken hostage.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Campaign Seeks to Free Imprisoned Journalists

By Tito Drago
Communications media and journalists in Europe and Latin America have taken up the cause of nearly one hundred reporters imprisoned in 19 countries, responding to a sponsorship campaign launched Thursday by Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Reporters without Borders).

RIGHTS-MIDDLE EAST: Waiting for Others to Stop Censorship

By IPS Correspondents
Challenged by new media and non governmental groups stretching the boundaries of freedom of speech, censorship in the Middle East has been loosing ground this decade, albeit rather slowly, as governments seem to expect others to lead the way.

RIGHTS-CHILE: Reporter’s Case Marks Lack of Freedom of Expression

By IPS Correspondents
The U.S. government's decision to grant political asylum to Chilean journalist Alejandra Matus confirmed that 10 years after the restoration of democracy in this Southern Cone country, freedom of expression remains severely limited, say analysts.

RIGHTS-EGYPT: Journalists Vow to Resist Prison Sentences

By IPS Correspondents
After months of waiting for law makers to honour electoral promises, Egyptian journalists have launched a campaign to cancel legal Law provisions that punish publication offenses with imprisonment. They vowed to resist jail sentences.

TECHNOLOGY-ST MAARTEN: Using the Internet to Boost Tourism

By IPS Correspondents
As Caribbean tourism officials try to come up with innovative ways to boost the industry in the region, some persons are arguing that more countries need to turn their attention to the Internet as they seek to market their product more aggressively.

MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Editor Muzzled By Paper Under Gov’t Pressure

By IPS Correspondents
Banned from writing under her name in the newspaper she edits, Dr Maleeha Lodhi is determined to stay on and fight the "authoritarian rule" of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, she says.

RELIGION: Tibetan Lama Incarnate Awaits Indian Visa

By IPS Correspondents
Of the many treasures housed in the sumptuous Rumtek monastery in India's Sikkim state, and awaiting its master, Ugyen Thinley, a Chinese citizen, the most coveted is the 600-year-old 'flying crown' of the Karmapas.

MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Fight for Free Press Not Over With Editor’s Release

By IPS Correspondents
Najam Sethi, a prominent Pakistani newspaper editor who was in police custody for 25 days for making an anti-state speech in India, was set free this week, but other journalists imprisoned by the government remain in jail.

CULTURE-SRI LANKA: Liberalisation Set To Sweep Film Industry

By Feizal Samath
Sri Lanka's film industry, in the doldrums since the late 1970s, is preparing for radical changes after the government said it was abandoning control over distribution.

COMMUNICATIONS: Fiber Optics Network to Link Latin America

By Tito Drago
'Telefonica Internacional de Espana' - the largest telecommunications company in Spain and Latin America - and a U.S. firm plan to invest 900 million dollars to install a submarine fiber optics network linking all countries of Latin America, with connections in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

/ARTS-ENTERTAINMENT/ BOOKS-PAKISTAN: Loss Of Hope And Its Recovery Under Martial Law

By IPS Correspondents
This is the first novel in English of a generation growing up in the late-70s Pakistan. The book is about a boy coming of age, martial law crashing into his puberty. It is a novel about the end of idealism.

MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Protests For Press Freedom As Editor Untraced //REPEATING//

By IPS Correspondents
Rights activists and journalists have called for a countrywide protest on May 13, Freedom of Expression Day, to protest the government's increasing intolerance of dissent leading to the arrest of a well-known editor last week.

MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Protests For Press Freedom As Editor Untraced

By IPS Correspondents
Rights activists and journalists have called for a countrywide protest on May 13, Freedom of Expression Day, to protest the government's increasing intolerance of dissent leading to the arrest of a well-known editor last week.

RIGHTS-LATAM: Colombia Tops List of Murders of Journalists

By IPS Correspondents
Nine of the 18 reporters killed last year in Latin America worked in Colombia, according to a representative of the Organisation of American States (OAS), although a local organisation put the number at 13 instead of nine.

MEDIA-SRI LANKA: Readers Relish The Daily Dose Of Violence

By Feizal Samath
Sri Lanka's bloody ethnic conflict running into its 17th year in 1999 tops the list of stories followed avidly by newspaper readers, according to a new survey that puts local news and crime stories in dailies well behind war stories.

MEDIA-BANGLADESH: BBC Report on Rape Of Briton Creates Furore

By IPS Correspondents
The reported rape of a British national by four police men here has touched off a bitter row between the Bangladesh government and the British High Commission over the authenticity of the incident.

WEEKLY SELECTION-When Language Counts: NATO Attacking Milosevic or Yugoslavia?

By IPS Correspondents
It seems impartial, but is not as unbiased as it appears, when the newspapers say that, in Yugoslavia, NATO is attacking "Milosevic's armies."

MEDIA: Marginalised Find A Voice On Radio And TV

By IPS Correspondents
Working with a simple hand-held video camera, four women in one of the most backward parts of south India have produced short films on issues affecting their lives and are negotiating for a slot on a big regional TV channel.
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