The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused Romanian President Traian Basescu of ?abusive and offensive behaviour? after he snatched a reporter?s mobile telephone and used sexist and racist language in response to her questions.
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New York, May 22, 2007?A freelance photographer on assignment for Time magazine in insurgency-hit southern Thailand was injured in a bomb blast today, according to news reports. Australian Philip Blenkinsop was among seven people injured by the improvised explosive device, which detonated in Yala province.
New York, May 22, 2007?The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Philippine government to undertake a thorough and timely investigation into today?s shooting death of freelance photographer Dodie Nu?ez.…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Zimbabwean government to end its attacks and harassment of journalists and to stop police harassment of newspaper photographer Boldwill Hungwe.
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Asia Briefing N?64
22 May 2007
OVERVIEW
South East Maluku (Maluku Tenggara, commonly abbreviated Malra), a district in a remote corner of the Indonesian archipelago, is about to be divided in two, and many residents are worried about the possibility of conflict. Attention by provincial and national officials to latent communal tensions, equitable distribution of development funds and even-handed prosecution of corruption, as well as dissemination by neutral parties of information about the division, would help ensure that all remains peaceful.
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