Turkish Twitter ban

Source: ET Until a day ago, the ban was widely circumvented by Turkish Twitterers, but on March 22, the government blocked Twitter access at the IP level. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE The battle for free speech in the age of the internet is going on across the world. Freedom of speech, these […]

Bangladesh moves to ban Jamaat-e-Islami

ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh war crimes investigators moved on Tuesday to outlaw the country’s largest Islamic party, accusing it of genocide and other atrocities during the 1971 struggle for independence. Government investigators handed a report detailing war crimes allegations against  to prosecutors, in the latest move against the party which has banned […]

University ‘bridges’ US-China gap

Source: China Daily By JACK FREIFELDER As scholars and academics continue efforts to encourage the study of China, Pace University, in New York City’s Lower Manhattan, is trying an alternative tack to promote its students’ interests in the world’s second-largest economy — by subsidizing a chance to study abroad. The […]

Who speaks for the voiceless?

By Leonard Pitts Jr., who is a columnist for the Miami Herald Who speaks for Ghanson Debrosse? Before he was born, many people did. Anti-abortion groups did. Churches did. Protesters did. And lawmakers did. Florida, for instance, requires that a woman undergo an ultrasound before getting an abortion, and the provider […]

Flight 370 Ended in Southern Indian Ocean.

Source: NY Times The prime minister of Malaysia announced in Kuala Lumpur that there was no longer any doubt that the missing Malaysian Airlines jetliner, Flight 370, crashed in the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Najib Razak said the conclusion was based on new analysis of data from an automated satellite […]