Visitors: 285 China Sydney PEN is shocked and dismayed by the sentencing of dissident Chinese writer and academic Liu Xiaobo to 11 years imprisonment on charges of “subverting state power”. The trial was held on December 23, 2009 in Beijing, following Liu’s detention late last year. The trial concluded without providing a verdict until Friday, […]
Visitors: 207 Pakistan Journalists For International Peace, strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast during 10th Muharram procession near Light House traffic signal on M.A. Jinnah road Karachi on Monday (28 Dec). The blast occurred at 04:13 pm , in which 43 innocent persons were martyred. The dead include 2 children and 1 Rangers official. More […]
Visitors: 221 Pakistan Journalists For International Peace, strongly condemned the suicide bomb blast during 10th Muharram procession near Light House traffic signal on M.A. Jinnah road Karachi on Monday (28 Dec). The blast occurred at 04:13 pm , in which 43 innocent persons were martyred. The dead include 2 children and 1 Rangers official. More […]
Visitors: 219 We have to accept that industries fail. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Detroit is kaput: we saw it coming, and we all know now.And it made good copy.Manufacturing went to China and India. There were blue collar casualties. We saw it coming, and it made good copy.Did we cry? Did we […]
Visitors: 306 We have to accept that industries fail. It happens everywhere, and all the time. Detroit is kaput: we saw it coming, and we all know now.And it made good copy.Manufacturing went to China and India. There were blue collar casualties. We saw it coming, and it made good copy.Did we cry? Did we […]
Visitors: 182 LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous […]
Visitors: 168 LONDON, UK/TORONTO, CANADA, December 25, 2009 International PEN, the world’s leading freedom of expression organization with 145 member centres in 104 countries, calls today’s sentencing of prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo a grievous betrayal of his inalienable rights as a Chinese citizen. In what amounts to a show trial, after weeks of courageous […]
Visitors: 125 India’s largest minority population lives in poverty and socio-economic exclusion even after 62 years of Independence. Muslims live in ghettos across the country with a persistent feeling of fear and insecurity. According to the Sachar Committee, around 4% of Muslims have managed to become graduates; Muslims have a very thin presence in banks, […]
Visitors: 154 India’s largest minority population lives in poverty and socio-economic exclusion even after 62 years of Independence. Muslims live in ghettos across the country with a persistent feeling of fear and insecurity. According to the Sachar Committee, around 4% of Muslims have managed to become graduates; Muslims have a very thin presence in banks, […]
Visitors: 212 Chairman: International Division, Chartered Institute of Journalists, London Wrapping sandwiches or fish and chips in that morning’s newspaper indicates the lack of importance many people give to the day’s news. True, “the best tings in life are free”, goes the maxim. But while news, be it in a newspaper, on radio or on […]
Visitors: 218 International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been […]
Visitors: 188 International PEN Sydney Centre Honorary Member of Sydney PEN, Father Nguyen Van Ly, has reportedly suffered a serious stroke and has been transferred to a Hanoi hospital. As many of you already know, Fr Van Ly is a sixty-three-year-old priest, scholar and essayist and co-editor of an underground online magazine who has been […]
Visitors: 237 Amnesty International The Singaporean parliament should enact new legislation protecting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today, after a magazine and its editor agreed to pay S$405,000 (Approximately US$290,000) following a fine by the country’s highest court for alleged defamation. The Dow Jones Company-owned Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) magazine and its editor […]
Visitors: 208 Amnesty International The Singaporean parliament should enact new legislation protecting freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today, after a magazine and its editor agreed to pay S$405,000 (Approximately US$290,000) following a fine by the country’s highest court for alleged defamation. The Dow Jones Company-owned Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) magazine and its editor […]
Triloki Nath Purwar(The article was written in 1971, before the Bangladesh war) Headlines THE CRISISMAN’S NATURESOCIAL DEVELOPMENTNEW DIRECTIONFUTURE SOCIETYTHE SUBCONTINENT THE CRISISHuman society has been experiencing a suffocating and depressing situation in community living the world over. The conflict between nationalities and ideologies is sapping our creative energies in various spheres of life. In the […]
Visitors: 230 15 November 2009 “Since November 2008, thirty-five print and online journalists have been murdered,” said Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee. “All over the world, writers and journalists and bloggers are suffering for practicing their right to speak out on issues that matter.” On 15 November 2009, International PEN’s […]