Hong Kong - Nearly half of Hong Kong people believe that media in the former British colony practice self-censorship to avoid upsetting China, according to a survey Wednesday.
The Hong Kong University study found that 47 per cent of people interviewed believed that self-censorship was rife in newspapers and magazines in the city of 7 million.
Two-thirds of the more than 1,000 interviewees said they believed the media in Hong Kong misused press freedom and only 30 per cent said they believed local media reporting was responsible.
Ending his two-year stint as the founding CEO of NDTV Convergence, Sanjay Trehan resigned from the post on April 13, 2009; to reportedly join a consumer-focused Internet company.
Overseeing NDTV operations since he took over as CEO on 10 March 2007, Trehan was responsible for running the dotcom and mobile assets of the group, including its flagship NDTV. com. During the course of his tenure, Trehan contributed towards building NDTV Convergence, and launching NDTV Active; Tubaah. com; NoGyan. com and NDTVkhabar. com.
After a recent change in the creative and media agencies of the consumer, business and industrial electronic goods bigwig Panasonic, Percept's IBD has been handed over the Viera - LCD and plasma TV range - and Lumix businesses including Limux camera range; while Percept's media agency, Allied Media, has bagged the company's media buying mandate.
Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
"He is a simple villager, feeding the duck, checking the cow's udder with his fingers, crying: there is a plenty of milk."
When a lawyer brought a lawsuit against Salem and Ibdaa, the government-funded magazine that published the poem, charging them with "insulting the Divine Entity," Salem's defence attorney never expected it would go far.
Tehran - An Iranian-American reporter detained in Tehran for alleged illegal press activities has been charged with espionage, local media reported Wednesday.
Roxana Saberi, 31, a reporter for US-based National Public Radio (NPR), was initially detained for buying alcohol and has been held in Tehran's Evin prison since the end of January.
In March, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said Saberi was denied official press accreditation since 2006 and was working illegally.
Paris - The press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders Wednesday strongly criticized the Algerian government's decision to ban three French publications in the run-up to Thursday's election.
"This censorship is disgraceful," the group said in a statement about the repression of the current issues of the weeklies L'Express, Marianne and Le Journal du Dimanche.
The ban "constitutes a denial of press freedom and therefore a denial of democracy," the organization said.
Hong Kong - Nearly half of Hong Kong people believe that media in the former British colony practice self-censorship to avoid upsetting China, according to a survey Wednesday.
Ending his two-year stint as the founding CEO of NDTV Convergence, Sanjay Trehan resigned from the post on April 13, 2009; to reportedly join a consumer-focused Internet company. 
After a recent change in the creative and media agencies of the consumer, business and industrial electronic goods bigwig Panasonic, Percept's IBD has been handed over the Viera - LCD and plasma TV range - and Lumix businesses including Limux camera range; while Percept's media agency, Allied Media, has bagged the company's media buying mandate. 
Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
Tehran - An Iranian-American reporter detained in Tehran for alleged illegal press activities has been charged with espionage, local media reported Wednesday.
Paris - The press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders Wednesday strongly criticized the Algerian government's decision to ban three French publications in the run-up to Thursday's election.
