A press freedom drama is being played out in Fiji with its military-led regime deporting journalists as it tightens its control on the island's besieged media. In the latest incident, Australian ABC television journalist and veteran Pacific commentator Sean Dorney was ...Read More
BEIJING -- President Obama, taking questions Monday from government-selected students at a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai, called himself "a big supporter of non-censorship." But the Beijing government, apparently, is not, and most Chinese never got to hear or read ...Read More
Lou Dobbs, the most opinionated and divisive anchor at a cable network that bills itself as a straight-news oasis, resigned from CNN last night, saying he wants "to go beyond the role" of a television journalist in tackling the country's ...Read More
Fijian-born Australian academic Brij Lal says he was subjected to verbal abuse and "explosive anger" for three hours before being ordered out of Fiji by authorities.
Professor Lal, from the Australian National University, has arrived in back in Australia after being ...Read More
The former head of Fiji's land forces has applied for a protection visa to stay in Australia, and says he would not be welcome back in his own country.
Colonel Jone Baledrokadroka's application is being considered by the Australian Government.
He is ...Read More
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said it “deplores” Fiji’sexpulsion of Australian and New Zealand diplomats and urged themilitary-led government to restore freedom of speech in thePacific island nation. “These actions have undermined any opportunity forprogress toward reengagement and constructive dialogue ...Read More
Fijian-born Australian National University academic Professor Brij Lal has been taken into custody in Fiji.
The professor's family says he was escorted from his home in Suva this afternoon by the military, who refused to provide the reason for his detention ...Read More
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia and New Zealand expelledFiji’s top envoys, escalating a row with the Pacific islandnation after its military-led government ordered their mostsenior diplomats to leave. “We’ve no option but to respond in a proportionatemanner,” Australian Foreign Minister Stephen ...Read More
Australia's relationship with Fiji has hit a new low with the expulsion of Australia's High Commissioner.
Fiji's military ruler, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, has accused the Australian and New Zealand governments of interferring in judicial appointments and has ordered the high commissioners ...Read More
Denmark's Connie Hedegaard is a tough-minded, fast-talking, bicycle-riding climate minister looking forward to either wooing delegates or banging heads together at next month's global warming conference in Copenhagen.
Once a television journalist who fronted a crusading national Danish program, Ms Hedegaard ...Read More
MEXICO CITY—The Mexican "norteno" band Los Tigres del Norte says it has canceled a planned appearance at an awards ceremony after organizers allegedly asked it not to play the biting political commentary song "La Granja." The song's lyrics appear to lampoon ...Read More
PARIS -- The U.N.'s cultural agency braced for an unusually suspenseful final round of voting to select its new chief - a race so tight it may come down to a random drawing between a controversial Egyptian and his low-profile ...Read More
Reporting from New York -- CNN/U.S. President Jon Klein told staffers of "Lou Dobbs Tonight" Thursday that the controversy regarding the legitimacy of President Obama's birth certificate -- a topic Dobbs has avidly pursued on the air -- is a ...Read More
Apple's on-again-off-again relationship with the "Hottest Girls" application has people more hot under the collar than the racy photos of topless women that got the software banned from the iTunes App Store last week.Apple has again wielded the mighty hammer ...Read More
Ron Kirk has now objected to several aspects of Chinese trade policy The US has called on China to scrap its plan to put net-filtering software on all its computers. It said that China's proposals would violate its free trade obligations, ...Read More
BEIJING -- Some Chinese Internet users criticized a government plan to require personal computer makers to ship Internet-filtering software with all new PCs, after state-run media publicized details of the initiative. The "Green Dam-Youth Escort" software was developed by two government-linked ...Read More
China is requiring personal computers sold in the country to carry software that blocks online pornography and other Web sites, potentially giving one of the world's most sophisticated censorship regimes even more control over the Internet. The software's developer said Monday ...Read More
It was from this Peking University campus, at around midnight on April 17 that year that 3,000 angry students marched to Tiananmen Square to begin a protest that ended six weeks later in bullets and bloodshed. Joined by workers and ...Read More
Reporting from Beijing -- There is no twittering about Tiananmen Square, or anything else, in China this week. In a crackdown apparently timed to the 20th anniversary Thursday of the crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations, the Chinese government has pulled the plug ...Read More
The inauguration of El Salvador's first left-wing president brought to an end nearly a half-century of polarized politics in Latin America's bloodiest Cold War battlefield. In a ceremony attended by the region's top leaders, 49-year-old Mauricio Funes, a former television journalist, ...Read More
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - Leftist Mauricio Funes was sworn in as El Salvador's president on Monday, vowing a break with a past scarred by civil war as he brought a party founded by Marxist guerrillas to power for the first ...Read More
