A possible attempt on the life of a local journalist working for an English Language Newspaper took place at the Rung Far Condominium in South Pattaya on Thursday Morning. Khun Anandar aged 44, who works for Pattaya Today Newspaper explained to Police that she was in the shower when a man, dressed only in underwear […]
A Mindanao city becomes the world’s journalist murder capital General Santos City, at the very bottom of southern Mindanao, is becoming the journalist murder capital of the Philippines, and perhaps the world. Christopher Guarin, the publisher of a local community newspaper and radio commentator was the latest to die, on Jan. 5 when he was […]
Gunmen in northwest Pakistan shot and killed a reporter working for the Voice of America on Tuesday near his home in Shabqadar, roughly 35 kilometers from Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Mukarram Khan Aatif, who filed reports for VOA’s Deewa Radio, was in a mosque when two assailants on motorcycles arrived during evening prayers. […]
BANGKOK, Dec 6 – Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday vowed to heed His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s advice to sustainably solve Thailand’s flood problems while instructing cabinet members to work to ensure there will be no more water-clogged areas remaining by the year end. Ms Yingluck told the media after the weekly cabinet meeting […]
Japanese officials took a group of journalists inside the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex for the first time Saturday to show how the situation in the plant has stabilized since it was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Reporters saw trucks flipped over by the huge wave, crumbling reactor buildings and piles of rubble […]
Five volunteer officers of Thappraya center beat up a news reporter in front of a thousand local and foreign spectators who attended the Loy Krathong festival. The police assumes this is due to some negative news about the officers that the reporter filed earlier. Pattaya, November 10, 2011[PDN];Mr. Anucha Noyjamnong, a local Pattaya City news […]
In London last weekend, journalists, software developers, filmmakers, designers and many others spent time discussing ideas and building tools at the 2011 Mozilla Festival at Ravensbourne College. Following the theme of “Media, Freedom and the Web”, many attendees developed prototypes around the idea of the future of media including tablet interface prototypes for the Boston […]
Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Wednesday said her government had not planned to legalise gambling, paving way for the construction of casino and entertainment complex. “I have no idea about the casino proposal as I just heard about it for the first time,” she said, answering a reporter’s question. Yingluck said she did not […]
