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Peter Lloyd sentenced to ten months

on 02 Dec 2008

Peter Lloyd, the foreign correspondent arrested in Singapore in July on drugs charges, has been sentenced to ten months in Prison. The New Delhi-based correspondent received eight months in prison for possession and consumption of methamphetamine and an additional two months for "possessing drug paraphernalia stained with ketamine", Lloyd's...more

Gunnar Bergstrom says sorry

on 19 Nov 2008 | 2

Gunnar Bergstrom reported from Khmer Rouge run Cambodia as a young reporter in 1978. He spent fourteen days in Democratic Kampuchea and filed glowing reports. Seven months after he returned to Sweden he retracted what had originally reported. This week, some thirty years later, he's back in Cambodia to...more

Burmese blogger jailed for 20 years

on 11 Nov 2008

Nay Phone Latt, the 28 year old Burmese blogger who blogged from the capital Rangoon during the bloody Saffron revolution in September 2007, was jailed for 20 years and 6 months on Monday. According to the blogger's mother Aye Than he was "convicted of contravening Public Offense Act 505 B...more

Mellissa Fung free

on 09 Nov 2008 | 3

[video:youtube:goSQuxkfKwU] Mellissa Fung, a 35 year old journalist with CBC, who was kidnapped in Kabul four weeks ago was released today. She says she was kept in a cave for the first three weeks, "They kept me blindfolded, but not the whole time," she said. "They chained me. . ....more

Chris Wattie talks Afghanistan

on 02 Oct 2008

Chris Wattie, National Post senior national reporter and author of Contact Charlie: The Canadian Army, The Taliban and the Battle that Saved Afghanistan, talks about time in Kandahar with Canadian soldiers, In an enlightening interview, Wattie describes his experience in combat with Canadian soldiers, and tells the stories that most...more

Soumya Vishwanathan shot dead in Delhi

on 01 Oct 2008

Soumya Vishwanathan, a TV journalist with the Delhi-based Headlines Today, died after being shot in the head in her car after returning from a late night shift last night, Police said they got a call from an autorickshaw driver about the incident at 3:41 am. â€œHer Maruti Zen had hit...more

Jaime FlorCruz working the China beat

on 30 Sep 2008 | 1

Jaime FlorCruz, CNN Beijing bureau chief, talks about life of a foreign correspondent in China in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The 57 year old FlorCruz has been based in China for the past seven years, â€œIt took time and effort to overcome professional and nationality-related barriers, to stare down...more

100,000 signatures commemorate death of Kenji Nagai

on 29 Sep 2008

Protesters in Japan presented the Myanmar Embassy in Tokyo a 100,000 signature petition protesting the murder of video journalist Kenji Nagai in the Burmese capital Rangoon one year ago. The group also asked for the return of his camera equipment, The group led by Kota Kinoshita, who was a close...more

LIVE event: Liu Heung Shing on China

on 25 Sep 2008

[video:bliptv:1301208] Pulitzer winning photographer Liu Heung Shing is a renowned Chinese photographer and a former foreign correspondent. In a career spanning over 20 years he covered China, India, Korea, the US and former USSR for all the major publications. China: Portrait of a Country is the new photography volume edited...more

Burmese journalist Win Tin released

on 23 Sep 2008

Burmese journalist Win Tin was released from prison today after 19 years behind bars. The 78 year old, who is Burma's longest serving political prisoner, vowed to continue to protest against the ruling junta, The 78-year-old Win Tin said he would continue to wear his light blue prison uniform...more

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