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Archive for May, 2009
Media law assistance website for journalists
The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) has recently launched a Media Law Assistance Website to provide journalists around the world with legal assistance, information and resources. The globally accessible site contains information and resources on media law and serves as a source of both information and analysis through seminal texts, legislation, and court decisions [...]
June 4 Forum in Beijing
On May 10 in Beijing, 19 prominent scholars, lawyers, and activists gathered at a forum to discuss the events of the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen square crackdown. The forum was the first to be held in the 20 years since China’s military crushed the student-led pro-democracy movement. Attendees included China Social Science Academy researcher Xu [...]
Yahoo! pledge to be a good Netizen
It’s about time: Yahoo! new chief executive Carol Bartz says that human rights trump doing business. Bartz’s remarks on May 5 opened a Yahoo! Business & Human Rights Summit at which she acknowledged that the US Internet pioneer made some mistakes in foreign markets. “It is really going to take all of us working together [...]
The Race for the World's Farmland
A panel of experts speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center here today discussed how governments—scared by high global grain prices and volatile commodities markets—and investors, who see farmland as a stable investment, are increasingly acquiring farmland overseas. Wealthy, food-importing, water-scarce countries of East Asia, for example, are buying up land in poorer countries of Africa [...]
Is it culture or censorship?
Great article today in the New York Times on the Chinese media and its resistance to foreign content and management. Time Warner, Viacom, News Corp are scaling down their hopes for the Chinese market. Murdoch – who has been successful in various anglo-saxon markets – tried to bring MySpace with the help of his Chinese [...]
Vietnam among the worst to be blogging in
If you are a blogger, don’t go to Vietnam. Blogging was virtually unknown two years ago in Vietnam. But it caught up like wild fire once the generation of eager, Web savvy students discovered the fun of speaking your mind and connecting with friends online. Unfortunately for them, the censors caught up and, afraid as [...]