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POLITICS-US: Anti-Obama Echo Chamber in Full Swing
By Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - Right-wing groups are stepping up their campaign against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, with two new books on the best-seller lists, another on the verge of publication, and a full-length documentary that will premiere during the party conventions later this month.
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MALAYSIA: Crackdown on Civil Rights, Media Feared
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - A series of tough measures in recent weeks has raised fears of a major crackdown against tolerance and dissent as rival political forces battle for state power in a society made fragile by economic uncertainties and decades of autocratic rule.
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CULTURE-CAMBODIA: Pre-War Khmer Music Making a Comeback
By Andrew Nette - Newsmekong*
PHNOM PENH - Grainy black and white newsreel footage of B-52 bombing raids and fierce fighting are the images most frequently associated with Cambodia in the sixties and early seventies -- not rock and roll, hot pants and wild dancing.
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MEDIA-LATIN AMERICA: Behind-the-Scenes Censorship
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - A study carried out in seven countries of Latin America found a "growing trend" in the region of subtle, largely invisible government interference with the media and journalistic independence.
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MALAYSIA: Proposal to Liberalise Campuses Weak - Students
By Baradan Kuppusamy
KUALA LUMPUR - For nearly four decades undergraduates in this country were banned from owning loud hailers -- a powerful symbol of dissent in the 1970s.
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MEDIA: Olympics Draw Harvest of Online Protests
By Lynette Lee Corporal - Asia Media Forum*
BANGKOK - Say goodbye to the usual slogan-shouting and banner-carrying protest actions, because one does not even have to be anywhere near China to push a mix of causes -- from Tibet and Burma to Darfur. Online creativity is the name of the game.
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RIGHTS-ETHIOPIA: Court Case To Test Limits of Press Freedom
By Nicholas Benequista
ADDIS ABABA - A legal battle in Ethiopia over what constitutes contempt of court is likely to test the boundaries of free speech in a country where the liberty of press has deteriorated over the last three years.
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MEDIA-AUSTRALIA: TV Network Denies Censor Role in China
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - An electronic paper trail indicates that one of Australia’s leading television networks may be involved in dissuading foreign media in China against covering "forbidden" topics.
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ENVIRONMENT: Tierramérica Centre Born in Heart of Amazon Jungle
By Mario Osava
MANAUS, Brazil - The Tierramérica International Centre for Sustainable Development and Environmental Defence held its founding assembly Thursday in Manaus, a city in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, during a seminar on the world’s big environmental challenges.
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MIDEAST: Israeli Transcends Borders With a Virtual Bridge
By Peter Hirschberg
JERUSALEM - Israelis are barred from travelling to the West Bank and Palestinians from entering Israel without a permit, but that has not deterred Zvi Schreiber, an Israeli living in Jerusalem, from creating a high-tech start-up company that does all its programming in the West Bank town Ramallah and its business development and marketing in the Israeli town Modi'in.
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FIJI: Another Move to Muzzle the Media
Analysis by Shailendra Singh
SUVA - Since independence in 1970, this Pacific Island nation has had a succession of elected and unelected prime ministers. Both sets of leaders have tried to muzzle what they see as errant, if not dangerous, media.
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FRANCE: 'Excited Little Boy' Takes Hold of the Media
By Julio Godoy
PARIS - The media in France, already in a heavy financial and credibility crisis, did not need yet another blow. But that is just what it got in President Nicolas Sarkozy's announcement that he will personally pick the directors of the public television and radio broadcasting companies.
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POLITICS-US: New Spying Law Quickly Challenged
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Civil liberties advocates have lost no time in asking a federal court to stop the government from conducting surveillance under the new wiretapping law passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last week.
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