Ethiopian media practitioners are arguing that a controversial new bill, passed by the Ethiopian government on July 1, restricts several press freedom rights. The bill was passed just one day before a media forum was to discuss and debate it. 

A panel of copyright experts will discuss the implications of new proposals that place legal responsibility on those who violate copyright laws on the Internet on July 2 in the Eliot Hall at The University of Hong Kong. 

Under the new copyright law, people who make copyright music and movies available on the Internet through streami

Three years after Kyrgyzstan’s President Kurmanbek Bakiev made a series of promises to improve the independent media in Kyrgyzstan, civil rights advocates are questioning the sincerity of his commitment to press freedom.  

In 2005, Bakiev promised to grant full independence to state-funded media outlets and the National TV and Radio Broadcasting Corporation, but on June 4, he

The Indian government on June 9 launched an Electronic Media Monitoring Center (EMMC) that can simultaneously track over 120 commercial television channels, the Times of India reported.