has been criticism of the use of social media after the Fort Hood shootingsLast week I sat around a large table on the top floor of Bush House in London with about 20 other people while we talked about the ways radio is changing and tried to imagine how English-language programming on BBC World Service could take advantage of the online, multimedia world that is emerging around us.I was invited because...
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism.In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well.There were also sharp divisions around the world on whether the end of the Soviet Union was a good thing.In 1989, as the Berlin Wall fell, it was a...
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commemorate Golden Jubilee of Doordarshan Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication (AIMC) organized a National Seminar on Public Service Broadcasting : Challenges Ahead.Eminent figures Mr.Sunit Tandon, ( Director of Indian Institute of Mass Communication) and noted theater personality and formerly CEO Lok Sabha Channel, Ms.Annapurna (Director, Corporate Communication TERI), Mr.Vikram Channa (Vice President,...
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Somalia's prime minister has said his government will eradicate piracy off its coast within the next two years.On a visit to the UK, Omar Sharmarke told the BBC that his war-torn country lacked enough resources to tackle the problem but was seeking help abroad.Analysts say to date the government has had minimal influence on the fate of those kidnapped by pirates, who tend to be released unharmed for...
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Representatives of the Somali community in Britain have appealed to the pirates holding a Kent couple to free them on humanitarian grounds.Messages were recorded for broadcast on the BBC World Service and Eastern TV Network after a meeting in Birmingham.Somali spokesman Said Barre Nur said: "We hope the pirates will listen to our message and release them without conditions and without harming them."The...
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the Watertight security training ground in Uganda, a group of men and women are doing target practice with their AK47s.Watertight Security Services has been sending Ugandan security guards to Iraq since 2007.Moses Matsiko worked in Iraq for more than three years before returning to Uganda to set up the company."Since we do security, we start by screening the criminal background of people, hand in hand...
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Weird World of Sport: If I arrive in a Rolls-Royce, there's always somebody landing in their helicopterThere seems to be a perpetual gameof oneupmanship at play in arriving at a racecourseLiving near Cheltenham as I do, there is never a shortage of invites to the races. I've been quite a few times and I'm only just starting to realise why it is not for me. It's not that I am an ignoramus of the sport...
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Expansion into Africa and other non-English speaking areas is a top priority for Wikipedia, site founder Jimmy Wales has said.Speaking on the BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme, Mr Wales outlined the next step for the online encyclopaedia."When we look at the vision I have for Wikipedia - which is a free encyclopaedia for everyone in their own language - we're succeeding, we feel pretty good....
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Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, so persuading people to invest in the country has to be among the priorities facing President Hamid Karzai.He faces an arduous task whilst the security situation remains so unstable and furthermore, doing business in a country renowned for its corruption is not going to entice large numbers of investors to part with their capital.But Ajmal...
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Jeevanjee gardens in Nairobi, smokers gather during their lunch hour to read, chat and light up.It is one of the few zones in the Kenyan capital where people can smoke in public, since the ban on smoking in public came into effect in 2007."I have often tried to give up by throwing cigarettes into the toilet, but I have not succeeded in stopping smoking."According to some researchers, tobacco addiction...
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