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On porn, jokes and Thai lawmakers

By Siam Voices Thu, Apr 19, 2012 11:40PM UTC View Comments

By Kaewmala Thai lawmakers made world headlines this week. It wasn’t exactly the kind of international press that would make them or Thailand proud. A BBC world headline on April 18, 2012 read “Image of naked woman halts Thai parliament debate.” At home, the Bangkok Post published the image of a half-naked woman captured on the...

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China punishes social media, websites on coup talk

By AP News Sat, Mar 31, 2012 7:01PM UTC View Comments

BEIJING (AP) — China is closing a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years. The extensive clampdown, announced late Friday by state media, underscores the authoritarian government’s anxieties over a...

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6 Filipino boys in trouble over Facebook kiss photos

By AP News Fri, Mar 30, 2012 5:34PM UTC View Comments

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine Catholic school is witholding the diplomas of six high school boys who uploaded Facebook photos that appear to show them kissing each other, an education official said Friday. A day earlier, a Philippine court rejected another Catholic school’s decision to bar five girls from graduation ceremonies because they had...

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Philippines school bans girl over Facebook bikini photo

By AP News Wed, Mar 28, 2012 9:15AM UTC View Comments

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Catholic high school in the Philippines has banned a student from graduation ceremonies because of a photo on her Facebook page showing her wearing a bikini while holding a cigarette and a liquor bottle. Education Assistant Secretary Tonisito Umali said Wednesday that the department will investigate a complaint by the...

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Twitter and the limits of social media as a news disseminator

By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Tue, Mar 06, 2012 3:10AM UTC View Comments

Sometime after India’s national capital and its adjoining areas were rocked by a low intensity earthquake on March 5, a noted film director tweeted: Earthquake in Delhi at 1.11pm. Twitter swamped by 1.12pm. News channels reported by 1.30pm. Twitter better for News. One was not watching news channels at that time so would not know...

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