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28.03.2008 Bunkar Vikas Sanstha in Chanderi town in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has changed the lives of weavers by helping them earn better incomes. Once bound by poverty and exploited by traders, the community now aspires to use media tools to create more livelihood opportunities.

25.03.2008 Convergence has been creeping up on the telecoms and Internet sectors in Africa. Orange has been quietly promoting its Livebox product in a widening range of countries and Telkom will shortly launch IP-TV services through Telkom Media. Gateway Communications set up GTV to compete with DStv in the satellite Pay TV market. However, up until now there has been little data to work out what any of this might mean.

24.03.2008 Three Reporters Without Borders representatives, including secretary-general Robert Ménard, today unfurled a banner showing the Olympic rings transformed into handcuffs at the official Olympic torch-lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece (photo, right).
+ Investigate Crackdown Before Torch Relay’s Passage Through Tibet

24.03.2008 In contrast to Chinese and Western media, local bloggers are providing balanced assessments and objective accounts on the current situation in Tibet, writes Xujun Eberlein.

21.03.2008 The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has upheld a complaint from The Camp for Climate Action at Heathrow in August 2007. The complaint against the Evening Standard 'seriously breached the PCC's Code, which the newspaper should have recognised earlier and sought to remedy'.
From: PCC

20.03.2008 WiMax, a new super high speed wireless technology and described as big brother of Wi-Fi, has a huge growth potential in Asia with more than 11 million subscribing to it by 2011. Worldwide the figure is expected to reach 36 million during the same period.

20.03.2008 Nimittelyä likaiseksi, vanhanaikaiseksi ja sivilisoitumattomaksi – tällaisia ilmauksia sisältää kansainvälisen Survival-järjestön valitsema vuoden rasistisin artikkeli. Juttu käsittelee Paraguayn intiaaneja, ja se julkaistiin viime syksynä paikallisessa La Nación -lehdessä. Maaliskuun 21. päivänä vietetään kansainvälistä rasismin vastaista päivää.

20.03.2008 An article comparing Paraguayan Indians to cancer and describing them as 'Neolithic', 'out-of-date' and 'filthy' is named as the most racist article in the mainstream media published in the last year. The award marks UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.

18.03.2008 All'alba del 17 marzo, quarto anniversario degli scontri del 2004, gravi incidenti sono scoppiati tra la polizia e la forza militare internazionali e la popolazione serba a Mitrovica nord. La violenza ha preso il via dopo l'inaspettata azione che ha portato le unità speciali della polizia Unmik a riprendere il controllo dei tribunali distrettuale e comunale di Mitrovica. L'azione è cominciata quando reparti speciali polacchi ed ucraini dell'Unmik, con l'appoggio delle forze francesi della Kfor, sono penetrati nei locali del tribunale, occupati da venerdì 14 marzo dai dipendenti e dai giudici serbi, che ne sono stati allontanati nell'estate del 1999. La cronaca di Tatjana Lazarević, corrispondente dell'Osservatorio sui Balcani.

13.03.2008 The London International Documentary Film Festival: 80 films - 8 venues - 8 days. It opens on 29 March.

07.03.2008 For the first time since the assassination of Al-Ali, 50 of his original illustrations are being exhibited at the Political Cartoon Gallery in London.

03.03.2008 Serbialainen radio- ja televisioyhtiö B92 on poistanut tunnukset kaikesta kalustostaan ja pyytänyt poliisilta suojelua. Taustalla on B92:n Kosovo-uutisointi, joka poikkeaa yleisestä linjasta Serbiassa.

03.03.2008 In: Liberia, Uganda, Iraq, the effects of mining, the disappeared, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Out: China, Burma, Zimbabwe, the "stans".