The Daily IIJ

Today I was in a workshop which started yesterday organized by Vision Group in Uganda; the theme of the workshop was Health Journalism. Every thing seemed to go well with every facilitator since the opening,  until today afternoon when Dr. Byaruhanga from the Psychiatry department at Mbarara Referral Hospital came in to take us through [...]

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It was shocking, annoying, and uniquely frustrating. This mixture of feelings somehow explains what happened during the oral admission test I had seven days ago. The purpose of this test is to attend an MA degree at the newly established ‘Higher’ Institute for Translation in Damascus, Syria. 

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In Uganda today, some members of the historical members of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) who actively risked their lives and participated in the five year struggle to liberate the country are up in arms to finish one another. The reason is that one of the most feared and flamboyant Minister of security Hon [...]

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This morning, I had a discussion from one of the senior editors at a prominent Radio station here in Uganda. The discussion was about whether journalists should be neutral or not. I was basing my self on one of the newspaper editors in Germany who insisted that journalists are not supposed to be neutral. As [...]

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The President Umaru Musa YarAdua’s government after 72 hours of suspending the operating licence of Channels Television, finally lifted it on Friday afternoon but not before getting some bashing from angry Nigerians especially the press.

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It’s unbelievable, but it has been 20 days since I left Germany. Time is flying, but I don’t realise that because I am quite busy these days. So much work in the office as well as at home. I think I have to spend some time writing weblog, otherwise I will forget how to use it.

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The tension at the presidential villa Tuesday (September 16, 2008) afternoon following a false report that President Umaru Yar’Adua might resign because of ill-health after cabinet reshuffle could be cut through with a knife.

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by Frencie L. Carreon  (Published in Zamboanga Today on 15 September 2008; posted in http://www.zambotoday.com and http://southernphilippines.blogspot.com)  The two-week journalism course that I recently completed in Jakarta is one of those challenging and definitely great learning episodes.  Today’s feature sums up the experience, and brushes aside questions on where I had been, and perhaps speculations [...]

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 by Frencie L. Carreon (Published in Zamboanga Today, 30 August 2008.) JAKARTA—When a Filipino journalist joins a small circle of colleagues in the profession coming from Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Singapore, one finds in bonding moments, notwithstanding differences, commonalities which I believe should not be taken for granted.

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Imagine yourself an undergraduate who failed in one subject and well confident you don’t deserve that failure. Of course it would be a painful reality when you can’t demonstrate your success in that subject under any circumstances. However, when suddenly someone extricates you from the sorrow you live and reestablishes the success you have deserved, [...]

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