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2 Prescriptions to Help Resolve the Global Crisis

Our economic expertise is limited in fundamental ways. Consider monetary and fiscal policies. Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb. For example, we know that we should lower interest....
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Committee set up to study feasibility of launching Nepal's own satellite

KATHMANDU, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Nepal has formed a committee to study the feasibility of launching its first satellite to an orbital slot provided by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) decades ago, officials said Sunday. "As per the ITU instruction, we have to use the orbital slot by the end of 2015.
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Online advertisements to grow at CAGR of 35% in Middle East

The Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2013 report was launched at Dubai Media City, revealing the emerging issues that will impact the TMT industry in the coming year. Copyright 2012 World of Media JLT read more
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Fahy explains new Workforce Development department

Minister Fahy on Thursday announced that the National Training Board and the Department of Labour and Training are now combined as the Department of Workforce Development.
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US-funded radio service taken off the air in Russia

By Mei Jingya, Sina English Radio Liberty, the U.S.-funded broadcaster, is being forced to shut down its AM radio station in Moscow, but plans to operate under the same name as an online service. When the Cold War was at its peak, Radio Liberty, transmitted on short wave, was founded in the 1950s to...

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US-funded radio service taken off the air in Russia

By Mei Jingya, Sina English Radio Liberty, the U.S.-funded broadcaster, is being forced to shut down its AM radio station in Moscow, but plans to operate under ...

International

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the International Press Institute announces that it will be honouring journalists Marie Colvin and Mika Yamamoto and the Malay...

ZACRAS calls for the enactment of progressive media legislation

In commemorating this day, we give honour to men and women in the media industry who have contributed in the creation of a better Zimbabwe. We note with gratitu...

Top Official Says Zimbabwe Only Seizing Smuggled Radios

Ranga said the government was arresting people whose organizations are believed to have smuggled the shortwave radios into the country, shortchanging the Zimbab...

US-funded radio service taken off the air in Russia

By Mei Jingya, Sina English Radio Liberty, the U.S.-funded broadcaster, is being forced to shut down its AM radio station in Moscow, but plans to operate under ...
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Satellite TV

Committee set up to study feasibility of launching Nepal's own satellite

KATHMANDU, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Nepal has formed a committee to study the feasibility of launching its first satellite to an orbital slot provided by the Internati...

President fails to impress

Well into his 10th month in office, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi told the nation in a television interview this week that the challenges facing Egypt were da...

Iraq media suspensions draw international criticism

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch called on Iraq on Tuesday to rescind its suspension of the licenses of 10 satellite TV channels, a move that bars them...

Iraq Media Suspensions Draw International Criticism

The United Nations and Human Rights Watch called on Iraq on Tuesday to rescind its suspension of the licenses of 10 satellite TV channels, a move that bars them...

Washington: NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, a Vining, Minn ., native who is making final preparations for a launch to the International Space Station, will be available for li...
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Satellite radio

Get the numbers right, then hold on to passion: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Get the numbers right, then hold on to passion: Rajeev ChandrasekharAOLWith Worldspace, the problem was about the technology demonstration that satellite can do...

Detroit financial manager steps up from second fiddle

Detroit financial manager steps up from second fiddleReutersHis bio page at Jones Day's website lists his work for H&R Block over false advertising clai...

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US-funded radio service taken off the air in Russia

Radio Liberty, the U.S.-funded broadcaster, is being forced to shut down its AM radio station in Moscow, but plans to operate under the same name as an online s...

Technology, bushfires and AM radio

As Australia's heat-wave returns, I’ll be in the Blue Mountains in NSW, surrounded by eight hectares – around 20 acres – of mostly uncleared bush, contemplating...

Track Santa from your Windows 8 device

NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has been tracking Santa since 1955. In the old days, it was an AM radio broadcast that began on Christmas E...

Opinion Why prank call was wrong

>Editor's note: Ross Stevenson is a former lawyer who has hosted the top rating breakfast radio program "Breakfast with Ross and John" on AM radio station 3AW i...

Prank call pitted 'the great' against the powerless

Editor's note: Ross Stevenson is a former lawyer who has hosted the top rating breakfast radio program "Breakfast with Ross and John" on AM radio station 3AW in...
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Christian broadcasting

Osteen Hoaxster Explains: Goal Wasn't To Defame Pastor

The person behind the elaborate online hoax in which a fake website proclaimed Pastor Joel Osteen's intent to renounce Christianity and shut down his influentia...

Judge tosses health lawsuit by Ala-based EWTN

An Alabama-based religious broadcasting organization is reviewing its options after a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit challenging part of the new federal he...

The Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) Airs Children's Animated Bible Series During Easter Week on ABC Family

-- Newest DVD episode available at CBN.com/Superbook -- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Spring break just got better for your kids...

Christian Broadcasting Network: Spirit of adoption sweeps across Ukraine

A powerful movement is sweeping through Ukraine. Thousands of Christians are coming together to care for the fatherless.

Why U.S. broadcasting firm may prefer S’Africa to Nigeria

FRUSTRATED by bureaucratic bottleneck five years after it was granted approval for a piece of land in Abuja to site its African headquarters by former President...
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Christian radio

Pope condemns 'slave labour'

Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned as "slave labour" the work conditions of victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh in which more than 400 people have been...

Pope condemns Dhaka slave labour

Pope Francis said he was shocked by a headline from saying some of the workers were living on EUR38 (32) a month."This was the payment of these people who have ...

Pope condemns ‘slave labor’ in Bangladesh after factory collapse

Pope Francis during a mass on Wednesday condemned as “slave labor” the work conditions of victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh in which more than 400 peo...

Pope condemns 'slave labour' in Bangladesh

Pope Francis today condemned as "slave labour" the work conditions of victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh in which more than 400 people have been found ...

Pope condemns 'slave labor' in Bangladesh

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned as "slave labor" the work conditions of victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh in which more than 400 pe...
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Christian TV

‘Ex-Muslim’ preaches the Gospel

When Hazem Farraj was 15, he became a Christian. But as a Palestinian Muslim living in east Jerusalem, he couldn’t tell anyone, especially his father. “For almo...

Relations between Christians, Hezbollah warming up

As Sunni Islamists rise throughout Middle East, Lebanese Christians and Shi’ite Hezbollah find themselves cooperating as regional minorities.

Australian DJ's Mel Greig and Michael Christian TV interviews in full: 'It was meant to be a silly little prank'

Mel Greig and her radio partner 2Day FM Michael Christian were quizzed about the incident today on the Australian TV programmes A Current Affair and Today Tonig...

Digital Radio

Telstra to construct CFA digital comms network

Telstra will construct and maintain a new digital radio service for the Country Fire Authority in Victoria.

Sirius XM Radio Names James Meyer Chief Executive Officer

, the satellite-radio broadcaster, named James Meyer Chief Executive Officer. Meyer, who had been interim CEO since last year after Mel Karmazin resigned, will ...

Forbes Earnings Preview Sirius XM Radio

reports its first quarter earnings on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Analysts are expecting earnings of 2 cents per share, exactly the same as a year ago. Analysts ar...

Digital Piracy Kills The Pashtun Music Star

The Pashtun music industry is faced with a new, digital, menace that threatens the livelihood of thousands of singers, producers, and retailers.

SiriusXM Announces 2013 NFL Draft Coverage

NEW YORK, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) will provide listeners nationwide with comprehensive coverage of the 2013 NFL Draft, tak...
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Digital TV

LG communication introduce its advanced solutions for B2B

LG Electronics, the global leader of B2B solutions, has showcase an outstanding line-up of highly advanced display solutions for business including Biggest Vide...

Italy's mobile operators to bear the cost of fixing LTE interference

The three main Italian operators will share costs of installing anti-interference filters all over the country, to prevent LTE hobbling digital TV transmissions...

Get ready to retune your TVs

ADELAIDE viewers will need to retune their digital TV, set-top box or digital TV recorder today to continue receiving SBS and community channels.

ITI Neovision fined zł.11 million for controversial nc+ launch

The Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) has ruled that the nc+ digital television offer was introduced illegally. ITI Neovision, which operate...

Paper: Elisa may take over STV

Äripäev has received information that one of Estonia’s largest telecom groups Elisa is holding negotiations for takeover of STV, that provides of fixed telephon...
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LTE

2 Prescriptions to Help Resolve the Global Crisis

Our economic expertise is limited in fundamental ways. Consider monetary and fiscal policies. Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and st...

Online advertisements to grow at CAGR of 35% in Middle East

The Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2013 report was launched at Dubai Media City, revealing the emerging issues that will im...

Fahy explains new Workforce Development department

Minister Fahy on Thursday announced that the National Training Board and the Department of Labour and Training are now combined as the Department of Workforce D...

Some suggestions for the next govt

Asif Haroon Raja Anti-Kalabagh dam (KBD) lobby in Pakistan has successfully scuttled plans to construct KBD which is technically most feasible, economically via...

Remarks by President Obama and President Chinchilla of Costa Rica in a Joint Press Conference

4:55 P.M. CST PRESIDENT CHINCHILLA: (As interpreted.) Good afternoon. Good afternoon, dear friends. Dear friends, international journalists and for American and...
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Public Radio

What Do You Get Valery Gergiev For His 60th Birthday?

Today is Russian conductor Valery Gergiev 's 60th birthday. Guess what he's received as presents? A national prize from his close friend Vladimir Putin — and a ...

Tunisia to form new media regulatory body after months of delay

HAICA will be tasked with regulating, supervising media during electoral campaigns, nominating directors of public radio and television stations.

EU Commission keeps Baltic States growth forecast unchanged for 2013

According to the spring forecast of the European Commission, the Estonian economy will grow in 2013 by 3% and next year by 4%; the same was forecast in February...

EU Commission keeps Estonia's growth forecast unchanged 3% for 2013

According to the spring forecast of the European Commission, the Estonian economy will grow in 2013 by 3% and next year by 4%; the same was forecast in February...

ERR to Show 12 Football League Games Online

The head of Estonian Public Broadcasting, Margus Allikmaa, and the president of the Football Association, Aivar Pohlak, have signed an agreement allowing ERR to...
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College Radio

WUVI in the V.I.: College radio station is on the air

ST. THOMAS ­- While most college classes ensure that students will at some point have to pull the infamous "all-nighter" to finish an essay, or slave through se...

Pirate Radio

Britain must stop housing, funding pirate radio stations says Zanu-PF

Zanu-PF says it welcomes the re-engagement efforts by Britain following the icy relations between Zimbabwe and its former coloniser.In a statement, the party's ...

Did negotiators agree on pirate radio stations?

The negotiators for the principal parties in Zimbabwe are reported to have agreed on 15 of the 21 contentious issues including pirate radio stations that broadc...

Zim ‘pirate’ radio station raided

Zimbabwe police raided a pirate radio station critical of President Robert Mugabe and arrested its editor amid a growing crackdown on media.

Charges dropped against 16 guests on the pirate station Citizens' Radio

The government has dropped charges against guest speakers on a pirate radio station, despite pursuing a prosecution for more than five years. Sixteen speakers o...

Four Tet remixes Grimes

Not that we 'd ever advocate the underground dealings of pirate radio, but, occasionally it throws up the odd good nugget. Rinse FM in the UK has gone legit via...
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