The Daily IIJ

I was in Bangkok last month to report on  14th International Anti-Corruption Conference, popularly known as 14IACC. The conference was held at Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, one of the biggest convention centers in Bangkok. I was among one of the nine young Asian journalists selected to cover the 14th  IACC  on different social media. Our major objective was to [...]

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Few days ago, I read an article about the odd time of postal service. It was about loosing revenues. Yes, how many people write letters for informal communication even in a country of third world? We can communicate with mobile phones with a cheaper cost than sending letters. Courier services are offering better services than [...]

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The Supreme Court of Bangladesh sentenced detained acting editor of the Daily Amar Desh, a Bangla newspaper, to six months imprisonment for committing a contempt of court. The court also fined him Tk 1 lakh. If he fails to pay the amount, he will has to serve one more month in jail, the court order [...]

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At last, every kind of piracy of audio and video has been declared illegal in a milestone verdict of High Court Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court today (17 August). Artists and producers of music and film industries of Bangladesh had urged to protect their merit rights and finally the court has given the historical rule.

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I have read a story at the Asian Tribune online this morning on Blackberry, Google and Skype. The title of the story is ‘Blackberry opens locked servers to India; victorious New Delhi now aims at Google & Skype’. This is good news at least for the Blackberry users of India who had the risk to [...]

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A TV station is telling that they are very shocked at the death of a bureau chief. On the other hand, an online newspaper is telling that ‘so called journalist’ has been killed. When I saw the news at My TV, one of our new private TV channels, I was shocked and told that another [...]

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The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists hereby denounces in the strongest of terms the despicably rude behaviour of the Managing Director of Zenith Bank Sierra Leone, Oby Ikeh Unekwe to a journalist who simply called her to fact-check her story.

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Last Wednesday, we reached the central office of Unity Life International Limited in Jawalakhel to collect the information on protest programme being held inside its premises. Everyone knows that Unity is charged of involvement in illegal insurance and deposit collection business. Unity’s head office was under the control of the police and its members were [...]

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The Philippine Icon and street headache: The Jeepney. Photo by Daniel Go from Flickr.com CC A series of broadsheet-sized billboards hung on lamp posts around the elliptical road in Quezon City has caught my attention for the last 45 minutes. The latest of the Department of Tourism’s print ad campaign showcased some of the ‘Wealth Of [...]

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I have the occasional nervous attack before the customary handshake with the guest speaker at a typical press conference in Manila. While the rest of my colleagues make short introductions about the newspapers or television networks they work for, I often have to clear my throat and prepare for a lengthier explanation.

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