Sri Lankan Navy arrested the controversial British vessel "Captain Ali," which carrying food and medicine to the IDP’S in the north and its crew this evening after the vessel entered in to the Sri Lankan waters without permission.This vessel is named "Mercy Mission To Vanni" and the Navy captured it when it crossing through the […]
Band to Watch: Amazing Baby
Formed just a year and a half ago, Brooklyn-based Amazing Baby has skyrocketed in a short amount of time. The core duo–Will Roan and Simon O’Connor–met at Wesleyan, the university that also spawned pals MGMT, Chairlift and Santigold. The two joined forces and began writing songs together when their separate bands started to crumble and–voila!–Amazing […]
Madagascar: Behind the Scenes of Foko Ushahidi SMS Alert System
A growing community of bloggers in Madagascar have been helping a global audience understand the political struggle between a former mayor and a president that recently drove their country into national disarray. A new initiative led by Malagasy bloggers captures witness accounts of social unrest via SMS text messages and Google maps using the Kenyan […]
2 US journalists face crime trial in North Korea
source: Daily Star North Korea said Friday that two US journalists will stand trial following an investigation into allegations they entered the country illegally and committed "hostile acts." Laura Ling and Euna Lee, journalists working for former Vice President Al Gore’s San Francisco-based Current TV media venture, were arrested March 17 near the North Korean […]
Italian Citizens Report and Reflect on L’Aquila Earthquake
by Bernardo Parrella On Monday April 6th, at 3:32am local time (01:32 GMT), L’Aquila, capital city of the central Abruzzo region, 60 miles northeast of Rome, was stricken by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake [en]. Even if the country is not new to such tragedies, this is Italy’s worst earthquake in three decades. The latest figures […]
Watch Out for War Anarchy or Revolution
I am back after attending the Asia Media Conclave, organized by the Asia Media Forum and Asia Resource Foundation, on March 25-27, 2009 at Bangkok, Thailand. There were about 75 journalists from 20 Asian countries gathered there and took part in the deliberations that went on for three days on various issues pertaining to media […]
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