- Breaking News daytime dramas
- Breaking News Ask Amy: Planning Second Wedding is Just as Stressful
- Breaking News Growing Older: Handling grief during the holidays
- Breaking News Guest commentary: Betraying the California Dream
Popular Malaysian political website blocked: government
0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — Malaysia on Thursday defended blocking access to a prominent political website that has attacked top leaders, saying it had ignored warnings against publishing "slanderous" articles.
Malaysia's media is tightly controlled by the government, and it has expressed frustration over its inability to rein in Internet news portals which have become popular alternative news sources.
The Star newspaper said the government-backed communications watchdog had ordered all 21 Internet providers in the country to block the Malaysia Today website, whose founder has already been charged with sedition.
"I think we don't intend to curtail people's freedom and right to give information and debate," Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar told reporters.
"But...
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- How Sources, Reporters View Math Errors in News
- Halo Debt Solutions, Inc. Gives Debt Settlement a Face-Lift
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking
- Why fly solo when an executive assistant can accelerate your CLNC® business?
- ECR Software Corporation Wins Vitamin Retailer Magazine 'Vity' Award
- Fighting financial reporting fraud