Asia news magazine axes 80 staff
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The Far Eastern Economic Review, a regional voice of press freedom and a pillar of Hong Kong&#39;s media industry since its 1946 founding, halted weekly production on Thursday to go monthly with the loss of 80 jobs.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Over at the headquarters one of Burma's (Myanmar's) most popular weeklies, the editors have just received their mockup paper for the coming week from the country's censorship board.
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Almost 80 people died of suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice ministry official said on Tuesday.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, Feb. 8 Kyodo - Mitsui and Co.
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MOSCOW -- The editor of Russia's prominent daily newspaper Izvestia said yesterday that he is stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper's coverage of the school hostage standoff, including its publication of graphic pictures of wounded and dead children and other victims.
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China on Sunday announced detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies, banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will cut regional distribution and staff to retool itself for the digital age.
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Nepal's media is subjected to a six-month ban on articles critical of King Gyanendra's state of emergency.
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The Miami Herald newspaper group sacks three of at least 10 journalists it says were in the pay of the US government.
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Media & professional: Options likely to prove unpalatable for staff, with redundancies running into four figures.
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A Chinese city in a region notorious for fatal coal mining accidents has rounded up 80 people claiming to be "reporters" who extorted money from officials and owners of illegal mines by threatening media exposure, state media said on Friday.
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CHICAGO -- Spanish-language daily Hoy -- owned by the Tribune Co. -- said on Thursday it is reducing its staff by 20 percent across the company.
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Eighty-one journalists and media staffers were killed worldwide in 2006, making it the deadliest year for reporters in more than a decade, Reporters Without Borders said Thursday.
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The editor of Russia&#39;s respected Izvestia daily said Monday he was stepping down in a dispute with his publisher over the paper&#39;s critical coverage of the school hostage standoff
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A Danish magazine is pulled from sale for showing the bloated bodies of tsunami victims on a beach in Thailand.
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55 members of the media in Philippines have been murdered since the reintroduction of press freedom following the ouster Marcos in 1986.
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In the first daily bulletin from the Hong Kong Inter-City tournament, which ended last Sunday, the editor, Munawar Sawirudin, a top Indonesian player, told a story against himself.