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Andrew Ooi

General election debates: three main news channels reach agreement - Times Online - 0 views

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UK elections debate Gordon Brown

shared by Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Pressure on Gordon Brown to agree to a televised debate between the three party leaders increased when the main news channels proposed a series of debates during the election campaign
  • Negotiations in the build-up to previous elections have been derailed by haggling over the structure of a debate, including the timing of opening speeches, the role of the moderator, and whether questions would be taken unscripted from a studio audience or agreed in advance.
  • Andrew Ooi on 04 Oct 09
     
    A televised debate for UK's elections look more promising as the main news channels have agreed on how the debate will take place.
fiona hou

Economic recovery could be bad news for Germany - Telegraph Blogs - 0 views

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Germany recession election telegraph

shared by fiona hou on 14 Aug 09 - Cached
  • News that Germany and France have, with a mini-bound, escaped recession must be the most ominous development of the week.
  • For those within this system, Germany had been an extremely comfortable place until the downturn. But the apparent failure of its export-driven social model changed all that. As a result, Germans had begun to campaign for a responsive political system.
  • In all sorts of ways,  Germans had begun to realise that the economy - and thence German society - had reached the end of the post-war path. The worry is that today’s GDP figures will drive them back to the old, familiar way of thinking.
  • fiona hou on 14 Aug 09
     
    News that Germany and France have, with a mini-bound, escaped recession must be the most ominous development of the week. Though it has always proved a mirage in the past, the possibility of change had appeared to be taking hold in Germany.
fiona hou

Hatoyama elected as Japan's prime minister - CNN.com - 0 views

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Japan's prime minister Hatoyama

shared by fiona hou on 17 Sep 09 - Cached
  • ( CNN) -- Japan's parliament elected Yukio Hatoyama as the country's new prime minister on Wednesday in an historic shift of power.
anonymous

Pusan film festival kicks off today - 0 views

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Pusan film festival most lavish film-fest Pusan International Film Festival [PIFF]

shared by anonymous on 08 Oct 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Oct 09
     
    Asia's biggest film festival, The 14th Pusan International Film Festival kicks off today, with the screening of director Jang Jin's latest political comedy "Good Morning President" starring Jang Dong-gun as Korea's youngest president-elect.
Andrew Ooi

Internet users upset over Govt's filter attempt - 0 views

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Internet Censorship Malaysia

shared by Andrew Ooi on 23 Aug 09 - No Cached
  • mulling an Internet filtering system similar to China’s controversial “Green Dam” project
  • Government has called for a tender for a system that could block “undesirable websites.”
  • The MSC Malaysia Bill of Guarantees specifies that the Internet will not be censored to ensure the success of the MSC Malaysia initiative
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  • Many in the Government have blamed the vibrant and critical Internet culture for Barisan Nasional’s losses in the 12th General Election in March last year, and there has been pressure from some quarters to muzzle the medium. The Government had previously considered registering bloggers, many of whom are critical of the ruling coalition.
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Mandatory internet filtering is a form of censorship. Full stop. Not only is the concept being considered in Malaysia but also right here in Australia too. Governments claim the internet filtering will only serve to filter out "harmful" web content - but who is to decide what is "harmful"? The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) serves to monitor web content and attempts to ensure illegal documentation such as child pornography ceases to be available online. But in terms "harmful" content... where is the line drawn?
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