Most Viewed, Emailed and Printed Stories by Year

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Title

Viewed

Emailed

Printed

1.

HONG KONG: Ad for HK porn actors gets brief airing at job fair

 41429

 

 3325

2.

MALAYSIA: Media reports on Noritta's sex life upset Malaysians

 31400

 

 4940

3.

Is HERO a Paean to Authoritarianism?

 29383

 1

 4217

4.

KOREA: Kim's execution video banned

 29047

 

 4172

5.

New Research on the Nanjing Incident

 25830

 3

 5247

6.

JAPAN: Ministry to broaden spectrum user fees

 24756

 

 3491

7.

The Tiananmen Square massacre myth

 24547

 

 2106

8.

INDIA: Court raps media for video photos of actress kissing

 24374

 

 4133

9.

SRI LANKA: Death toll nears 25,000 but relief efforts hampered by destroyed roads and looters

 23299

 

 4256

10.

Making Sense of China's New Media Environment

 22709

 

 5530

11.

MALAYSIA: Blogger rapped for posting insult to Islam

 20744

 

 3811

12.

SINGAPORE: TV news presenter Cheryl Fox cleared of drug taking

 20581

 

 2815

13.

US: Now, watch desi TV in America

 20558

 

 2898

14.

TAIWAN: FTV kicks off new English-language news program

 20198

 

 3937

15.

MALAYSIA: Chinese press 'can fight anti-Islam bias'

 20070

 

 3567

16.

SINGAPORE: Celebrity couples get separated

 19988

 

 4855

17.

MALAYSIA: Tycoons' firms battle for lucrative pay-TV market

 19921

 1

 3571

18.

SINGAPORE: 'Substantial change' to Channel U's offerings next year

 19295

 

 5185

19.

INDIA: Is it OK if India says yes to pornography?

 18559

 

 3891

20.

NEPAL: International media accused of exaggerating the blockade news

 18347

 

 3376

21.

US: American TV pushes nudity off the schedule

 18066

 

 3167

22.

INDIA: Tata stars in Murdoch's DTH

 17998

 10

 4090

23.

TAIWAN: Pan-blue poster likens Chen to bin Laden, Saddam

 17789

 

 3894

24.

BANGLADESH: Citibank-Prothom Alo joint campaign for Biswa Sahitya Kendra programme

 17559

 2

 4032

25.

MALAYSIA: SMS warnings not to use Penang Bridge

 17551

 

 3912

26.

SINGAPORE: SPH Chinese newspaper stalwart retires

 17427

 

 4987

27.

WORLD: In time of disaster, bloggers make their mark

 17362

 

 3565

28.

MALAYSIA: Sharifah Aini sues reporter for defamation

 17122

 

 3213

29.

CHINA: Mobile game service released with blockbuster movie

 16943

 

 2807

30.

SINGAPORE: New film makes fun of Singapore censors

 16895

 

 3207

31.

MALAYSIA: Stop exploiting sex for news, media told

 16784

 

 3687

32.

KOREA: Herald to manage English village

 16450

 

 3350

33.

MALAYSIA: Religion a hot topic for papers

 16410

 

 3213

34.

KOREA: Roh slammed for website's soft-porn parody

 16358

 

 2606

35.

KOREA: Korean Internet population reaches 30 mil.

 15941

 

 3285

36.

WORLD: Beheading a tool for propaganda

 15702

 

 3578

37.

INDIA: High Court seeks reply on 'adult' TV shows

 15540

 

 2516

38.

BANGLADESH: No more pvt TV, radio channels before passage of new law

 15514

 

 2932

39.

TAIWAN: Hu sued over 'repulsive' bin Laden advertisement

 15288

 

 3836

40.

TAIWAN: Jason Hu let 'terror' poster stay in circulation

 15257

 

 3369

41.

BANGLADESH: Daily Star, Prothom Alo editors get bail

 15170

 

 2647

42.

Changing the Subject: The "Invisible" Control Mechanism in Chinese Media

 15057

 

 2980

43.

TAIWAN: Newspaper cuts sexual content

 14931

 

 3367

44.

KOREA: Seoul's English-language magazines struggle to survive

 14716

 

 3339

45.

INDONESIA: Government opens Aceh to foreign journalists, aid workers

 14692

 

 3556

46.

WORLD: UN hosts debate on how to govern the 'digital divide'

 14616

 

 3022

47.

US: Video too gruesome for many news networks

 14590

 

 3183

48.

PAKISTAN: Media's role in social change discussed

 14580

 

 2357

49.

JAPAN: NHK, TV broadcasters to block digital copying

 14460

 

 3280

50.

TAIWAN: President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Hsiu-lien Lu Shot While Campaigning

 14421

 

 3334

51.

IRAQ: Online support grows for Iraq's 'prince of cutthroats'

 14397

 

 2987

52.

PAPUA: Journalist Mark Worth's sudden death shocks

 14268

 

 2944

53.

THAILAND: MP, Matichon editor get libel convictions

 14259

 

 3567

54.

TAIWAN: Talk show hosts help make or break campaign

 14198

 

 3163

55.

MALAYSIA: All steamed up over Malaysia Voyeur TV

 14160

 

 2617

56.

TAIWAN: Replica guns, bayonets give military a real headache

 14155

 

 2939

57.

Thailand's Troubled Border: Islamic Insurgency or Criminal Playground?

 14005

 

 2753

58.

CHINA: China to fund digital TV rollout

 13939

 

 3189

59.

TAIWAN: Premier concerned over TVBS plan to broadcast exit polls

 13882

 

 3267

60.

THAILAND: Thaksin regime 'undemocratic'

 13880

 

 3276

61.

WORLD: Newspapers 'still the ad medium of choice'

 13759

 

 3293

62.

CANADA: Vancouver's Chinese making news headlines

 13643

 

 2850

63.

Chen Shui-bian After the Election: Lame Duck or Phoenix?

 13367

 

 2928

64.

Taking Soundings throughout the Asia-Pacific: The Retiring Commander Offers Parting Views

 13245

 

 3678

65.

MIDDLE EAST: Aljazeera TV takes pride in impartial reporting

 13188

 

 3206

66.

IRAQ: Iraqi clerics laud Japan's role in reconstruction

 13153

 

 2633

67.

BANGLADESH: More private television channels to go on air

 13150

 

 3076

68.

HAITI: Private radio stations in Haiti warily reopening

 13138

 

 3289

69.

BANGLADESH: Bangladesh finally logs on to submarine cable

 13057

 

 2760

70.

TAIWAN: Chen declared winner despite protests

 13048

 

 3329

71.

New World-Order Paradigm: The Best of the West Agrees It’s Moving East

 12998

 

 2712

72.

CHINA: Beijing struggles to make a polyglot nation conform

 12998

 

 3334

73.

The Upsetting but Powerful Logic Behind an Outbreak of War Over Taiwan

 12961

 

 4164

74.

INDIA: Shrinks advise quake survivors against watching tsunami on TV

 12961

 

 3387

75.

China's Islamic Awakening

 12932

 4

 2660

76.

INDONESIA: Press freedom eroding in Indonesia, says Reporters sans Frontier

 12848

 

 3032

77.

US: TV-style ads go on the Web

 12766

 

 3194

78.

FRANCE: Paris Metro bans ad that features panty-sniffing man

 12475

 

 2730

79.

NEPAL: Maoists ban news reporting in Rukkum

 12367

 

 3155

80.

Taiwan's Democratic Taunts

 12320

 

 3541

81.

AFGHANISTAN: Woman's TV appearance divides Afghans

 12250

 1

 2554

82.

TAIWAN: KMT pulls out Hitler ad attacking Chen

 12182

 

 3181

83.

NEPAL: Highest no. of journos arrested in Nepal last year says RSF

 12169

 

 3797

84.

THAILAND: UBC to resume televising Channel 11/1

 12087

 

 2934

85.

HOLLAND: Muslims to block Dutch film sequel

 12079

 

 2836

86.

In response to our critics

 12046

 

 4325

87.

WORLD: Website postings give away terror activities

 12011

 

 2919

88.

SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi clerics forbid Muslims to watch US Arabic channel

 11955

 

 2830

89.

INDONESIA: Western press creates Islam's stigma

 11916

 

 3406

90.

TAIWAN: KMT's Hu denies leaning toward pan-green camp

 11892

 

 2934

91.

INDONESIA: Former newspaper boss gets nine months for defamation

 11888

 

 3222

92.

INDONESIA: TV station faces police probe

 11794

 

 2852

93.

Image and Reality in Iraq: The Asian Stake and the Negroponte Mistake

 11717

 

 3393

94.

THAILAND: Govt 'new enemy' of press freedom

 11669

 

 3368

95.

HOLLAND: Dutch rethink free speech as ethnic tension grows

 11660

 

 3151

96.

Central Election Commission Report on the Presidential Election

 11655

 

 3366

97.

TAIWAN: Lien denies rumors of wife-beating

 11618

 

 2941

98.

BANGLADESH: BNP resents BTV news coverage

 11565

 

 2776

99.

MALAYSIA: BBC news report 'biased'

 11537

 

 2769

100.

REGION: RSF names Tongan king as 'press predator'

 11440

 

 2881