Sein Win of Mizzima, a Burma-focused news site operated from Thailand and India, documents some of the barriers towards internet use in Burma. Under the… Read More »Some different perspectives on censorship around Southeast Asia
Kunda Dixit, the publisher of the Nepali Times, mentions that it’s an appropriate time for him to be speaking at this conference, “as my country… Read More »Kunda Dixit on internet publishing in Nepal
There’s about 15 countries represented from around Asia – Southeast Asia plus Taiwan, Pakistan and Nepal – at the “Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace” conference,… Read More »Sheila Coronel on blogs and media in the Philippines
Man, the Pacific is big. I tend to forget this. Most of my travel the past decade has been across the Atlantic, usually from a… Read More »Pacific Ocean – Big
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoinger, copyfighter and writer (who has taken the admirable step of making his works available under Creative Commons), has offered two recent posts… Read More »Art, copyright and the beauty of inaccessibility
Driving home from Boston late last night, I made an interesting discovery: Chad gets so little global media attention that the legendarily well-spoken BBC World… Read More »The News from N’Djamena