Features

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Journalism class raises awareness of social issues

Udayana University's journalism workshop offers a broad perspective, integrating journalism skills with global issues

On our Silver Anniversary

'The Jakarta Post' looks back at 25 years of representing Indonesia in the international media

Web-surfing phones riding high

Touch-screen, "full web-browsing" phones on the boom in Korea despite prices as high as $800

Breaking radio silence

Australian radio stations invest $400 million to update their infrastructure for second-generation digital audio broadcasts

Jakarta's bloggers get a world in edgewise

Senior bloggers share their experiences and thoughts on blogging as an interactive media

Justice for a fallen journalist

Six months after APF video journalist Kenji Nagai was killed in Myanmar, APF News President Toru Yamaji talks with AsiaMedia about continuing his legacy

High school students say journalism not that 'cool'

Students observe a decline in interest in high school journalism clubs

Covering Nepal's first election in nine years

In a Q&A with AsiaMedia, Dharma Adhikari discusses the challenges the Nepali press faced in covering Nepal's historic election on April 10

Gadget fans behind telecom business growth

Technology has allowed the telecommunications industry to become the fastest growing subsector in Indonesia

RPK one of Malaysia's most prominent Netizens

Raja Petra, founder of 'Malaysia Today,' is a well-known blogger who comes under fire for pushing government transparency and accountability

Arirang TV pursues cultural diplomacy

International, English-language broadcasting network strives to improve Korea's image abroad and spread Korean culture

Look who wants to read your emails

The government's desire to access Blackberry emails draws concern over potential misuse and abuse of civil liberties, writes Amit Bhattacharya

Suicide sites pose deadly problem

Members of pro-suicide websites say they are only advocating freedom of expression and choice, writes Amrita Singh

Talent crunch bites industry

Failure to recognize game development as a software engineering career has led to lack of trained developers, says Dhruva Interactive CEO

Hearing-impaired gain access to election news

Difficult dialects and political terms used by candidates pose challenges for sign language translators

Online ad guru spins the power of the web

Facebook's VP of media sales, Mike Murphy, dismisses digital myths at ad:tech conference

Trouble in paradise

Media organizations protest attack on a Timorese newspaper design editor by military police and expulsion of an expatriate newspaper publisher from post-coup Fiji

Media now gun-shy in Miura reportage

Because of his success with lawsuits against media firms in the past, experts say Japanese media are more cautious in reporting Kazuyoshi Miura's recent arrest for the 1981 murder of his wife

Opposition overcomes media hurdles

In a Q&A with AsiaMedia contributor Angilee Shah, media scholar Zaharom Nain explains the media's role in Saturday's elections in Malaysia

The rise of Asian nations

In a Q&A with AsiaMedia's Debory Li, former Singapore diplomat Kishore Mahbubani discusses his latest book and the future of the Asian hemisphere

Pakistan set to lift its ban on Bollywood

Not only can lifting the movie ban help bridge India and Pakistan more, but it can also revive Pakistan's film industry

Alarm at cable rift

Dylan Bushell-Embling examines the possibility and impact of a telecommunication blackout in Australia

Creating the Buzz Factor

'The Times of India' explains how buzz helped it achieve success as a commercial brand

Radio stations stay on air

Ary Hermawan says the survival of radio stations depends on their ability to define their listeners and to stay competitive

The High Tide of the Korean Wave III: Why do Asian fans prefer Korean pop culture?

A Korean scholar cites economics and Asian values as the causes for Hanryu, the "Korean Wave"

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