Features

Archive of all feature articles published

'Citizen journalism' wins hearts and minds

OhmyNews founder discusses the growth of his website

Delving into the pages of the short-lived 'Lintas Tebet'

The magazine, focusing on an area of Jakarta called Tebet, closes its doors after a six-issue run

IFJ out for peace on peninsula

Korea Times reporter Shim Jae-yun describes his experiences at the International Federation of Journalists' Special Conference

Future of media: Matter of survival

Harvard Business School professor says online media will "disrupt" the newspaper market at the Korea News Editors' Association's 64th breakfast conference

Where harassment is the order of the day for journos

Journalists in Khulna, Bangladesh face lawsuits, threats and attacks for reports on lawmakers

Here comes the culture brigade

A department under Thailand's Ministry of Culture is on the lookout for everything from inappropriate ringtones to promiscuously worn university uniforms

Online squatters kicked off .sg sites

Singapore combats cybersquatters, Internet users who register domain names in the hopes that well-known companies will buy them back

Blues band does its bit for Internet freedom

Japan-based band Max Blues is scheduled to play for human rights on the Internet at an Amnesty International charity event in Tokyo

Hernadi Tanzil: A helping hand for book lovers

An Indonesian book reviewer talks about his craft

Licences available in lightning fast speed

The BNP-led government in Bangladesh gave licenses very quickly to certain private television stations

Minister sees newspaper key to learning English

Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Kim Shin-il says it is a good idea to use English-language newspapers for language learning

Horie didn't like his job, he was just good at it

Embattled Livedoor entrepreneur expresses his dissatisfaction with working in the business world and the trial against him

Intellectual property rights debate heating up

UCLA conference participants challenge conventional wisdom on intellectual property rights and innovation

Sri Lanka's Lost Generation

Nalaka Gunawardene remembers Thillainayagam Theeban, a Sri Lankan teenager who survived the 2004 tsunami, but not the political violence that followed

Head of MTV Networks Korea eyes local market with special heart

Luke Kang passed on Columbia Law School and is now MTV Networks Korea's managing director and senior vice president of the MTV Network Asia

iTV reincarnated into TITV

Kamol Hengkietisak summarizes the TV station saga

Power to the Wikipeople

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about censorship in China, factual accuracy and the future of his online encyclopedia in an interview with The Japan Times

The biggest flirt of Pakistan

Late night host takes on public figures with suggestive banter

Goings on at Channel 9

The Bangkok Post sheds light on how politics affect the broadcast media at Thailand's Channel 9

The dawn of modern Korea: The first english daily

Andrei Lankov explains how President Syngman Rhee's anger with the Korea Times led to the creation of the Korea Herald

Wikipedia founder searches for info in Japan

Jimmy Wales' global tour takes him to Japan, the country with the fifth-largest Wikipedia in the world

Women to shine in media, but less so in businesses

A Samsung Economic Research Institute report says the number of female Korean journalists will increase 30 percent by 2012

Sony, Microsoft riding on UCC boom

Companies like Microsoft are looking to profit from user-generated content in East Asian nations like Korea where copyright laws are more lax

Veera going against the flow, again

The journalist-turned-politician behind PTV is willing to incur the wrath of Thailand's government by establishing the controversial new satellite TV channel

Kansai Time Out: 30 years without a breather

Eric Johnston looks at the history of Japan's oldest continually published monthly English-language information magazine

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