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BANGLADESH: 8 agencies kept out of info access

RTI ordinance allows for release of limited information from security agencies despite exemptions
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BANGLADESH: Basic journalism training for ethnic youths

Training course seeks to remedy underrepresentation of ethnic people in media houses
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BANGLADESH: BBC World Service launches new programme for South Asia

News service promises to feature interviews with key decision makers and political leaders in South Asia
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INDIA: TV producers ignore call for strike

Sony Television executive warns it will be difficult for producers to deliver episodes on time if the strike continues
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INDIA: TV serial producers, cine workers spar over pay

Actors to observe work stoppage until TV producers and union members reach a settlement
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NEPAL: FNJ asks govt to implement past assurances

Federation of Nepali Journalists requests establishment of judicial commission to investigate killed and tortured journalists
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PAKISTAN: Govt gears up to counter 'media blitz'

North-West Frontier Province government creates five-member team to monitor the media, produce materials for media, and counter anti-government propaganda
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INDIA: CJI says media must not run parallel trials

Chief justice says the media should show restraint investigating a citizen's personal life when reporting on criminal cases
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PAKISTAN: Five local journalists among Asia Awards finalists

Journalists to participate in four-day workshop prior to the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards
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PAKISTAN: PTV journalist manhandled by police

News editor attacked after being denied clearance at a restricted area despite having proper documentation
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INDIA: Police upset with media for revealing name in Reliance murder case

Police commissioner believes the case's prime suspect escaped after being tipped off by media reports
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PAKISTAN: Recovery of journalist's father urged

Journalists observe hunger strikes to protest the police's failure to locate the kidnapped father of senior journalist Lala Rehman Samoon
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BANGLADESH: Some cable TV operators observe strike

Cable Operators Association of Bangladesh denies being involved in the cable TV strike
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INDIA: TV scribe Kareem loses vision partially

Sheikh Kareemullah's condition stems from his in-laws' acid attack
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BANGLADESH: The Daily Star lawyers refute allegation

'Daily Star' lawyers claim three Bangla newspapers distorted facts, demand a published rejoinder
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BANGLADESH: Attack on ETV journos at Mymensingh

Attackers tried to steal the ETV crew's cameras
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INDIA: Acid attack on TV journalist

TV5 journalist Shaik Kareemulla in critical condition after his in-laws threw acid on his face
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INDIA: BJP to learn how to face media

Bharatiya Janata Party organizes workshop to train ministers and legislators to interact with electronic and print media better
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INDIA: Raj to launch newspaper soon

MNS party president, however, gives no specifics regarding the new paper
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BANGLADESH: 13 BNP-Jamaat men charge-sheeted

Authorities arrest men named by journalist as his killers in dying statement
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