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Journos under threat as world marks Press Day
News, Jeremy Walden-Schertz, Published on 04/05/2019
» As the globe marked World Press Freedom Day yesterday, journalists were commemorating the one-year-anniversary of dual suicide bombings in Kabul which killed nine of their colleagues. Meanwhile, separate attacks in Khost and Kandahar at about the same time killed another two journalists as well as dozens of civilians. In addition to mourning, the media community also conveyed its enduring respect for these journalists who had risked their lives on a daily basis to report the news.
Economic sea change is making an almighty splash
News, Jeremy Walden-Schertz, Published on 13/11/2015
» For Myanmar President Thein Sein, the drubbing at the polls must feel like poor recompense for leading the political shift -- appropriately called the "Thein Sein reforms" -- that partially dismantled the military dictatorship in 2011 and made these elections possible.