India takes low road with media bill

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India's Broadcasting Bill 1997 is the subject of several commentaries within and outside the country's media industry. The bill intends to subvert a 1996 Supreme Court decision directing the government to allow autonomy in the broadcast media. In contrast to the Indian Supreme Court's decision, the bill prohibits activities such as the cross-media ownership, marketing of direct-to-home services through cable networks, investments by newspaper publishings in broadcasting and investments by television companies in cable networks. Its purposes include protecting a government monopoly of the media.

Regulation and Administration of Communications, Electric, Gas, and Other Utilities, PRINTING AND PUBLISHING, Radio and Television Broadcasting, Publishing, Radio & TV Broadcasting, Publishing Industries, Communications Programs, Publishing industry, Laws, regulations and rules, Newspaper publishing, India, Broadcasting industry, Broadcasting, Satellite communications services industry, Telecommunications policy, Broadcasting policy

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Struggle for press freedom will continue in China

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Chinese Chairman Li Peng announcement that he favors allowing the press to sport a supervisory role in the country's affairs is just another ploy of the Communist Party to use 'press freedom' to further its goals. The Chinese Communist Party has been using the ploy since the time of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which used press freedom to monitor the activities of local governments and opposition politicians. The Chinese government is still immature to allow full press freedom, as can be seen in the aftermath of the Tiananmen protest, where the press was suppressed.

Political organizations, China, Analysis, Column, Social policy, Freedom of the press, Government and the press, Press policy

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Asian verdicts on Seoul's trial of the century

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The South Korean verdict against its former presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo received mixed reactions from Asian political observers. China and Taiwan refused to comment on the verdict because their high officials are themselves guilty of greed and corruption. Indian and Japanese analysts criticized the political vengeance that motivated the trials, while an Indonesian observer disapproved of the treatment accorded to the former heads of state.

South Korea, Cases, Political aspects, Sentences (Criminal procedure), Public opinion, Roh Tae Woo, Chun Doo Hwan

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