Global News Blog / IPS Friday, May 02, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Lynette Lee Corporal BANGKOK, May 2 (IPS) – 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. [...]
RIGHTS: People Everywhere Support Free Media
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Global News Blog / IPS Thursday, May 01, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, May 1 (IPS) – 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 [...]
CHINA: Temblor – Test of Openness
Global News Blog / IPSTuesday, May 13, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, May 13 (IPS) – As the death toll from a devastating earthquake in south-western China continues to climb, the disaster is proving a credibility test for the government, whose mandate is derived from maintaining stability [...]