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Information Minister Aung Kyi attended the meeting of creation of a new press council on 17 Sept. 2012.(Photo: http://www.ministryofinformation.gov.mm)

Burma holds Public Service Media Conference in favor of democratic values

By Zin Linn Thu, Sep 27, 2012 9:05PM UTC 0 Comment

Burma held ‘Conference on Public Service Media’ at Inya Lake Hotel, on 25-26 September, according to the state-run news media. It seems to be a fresh start under the new Information Minister. Burma’s information ministry had put an end to its out-of-date censorship laws in last August. The extraordinary declaration seemed the hottest in a...

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The Rushdie quip: A new Katjuism every day keeps the TRPs soaring

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Thu, Jan 26, 2012 2:00AM UTC 0 Comment

Court Witness is an advocate of the Supreme Court of India and tweets frequently about legal matters. She / he also writes for Legally India, which pegs itself as a site which “reports news and information relevant to Indian law firms, the Indian legal profession, Indian lawyers, law students, and international law firms and lawyers...

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Katju outburst: Can an angry old man uplift Indian media?

By Bala Murali Krishna Fri, Nov 04, 2011 4:15PM UTC 0 Comment

Retired judge Markandeya Katju is an angry man. Weeks after taking over as head of the Press Council of India, the regulatory body for newspapers, he lashed out at the Indian media and sought to bring television, the more egregious offender in the eyes of many, under his control. Now the Indian media is, rightly,...

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