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Media diversity and sustainability summit: Good for business, good for democracy
7-8 September 2006, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg, South Africa
Announcing the second regional Gender and Media Awards

As part of the Media Diversity and Sustainability Summit 2006 GEMSA, MISA and Gender Links will be presenting the second Southern African Gender and Media Awards. The awards will recognise and acknowledge good gender and media practice since the Summit of 2004.

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PRESS STATEMENT
29th July 2006

The Centre for Independent Journalism is deeply concerned about the threats being made against the Malaysian mass media by the Government. In a press statement on 28 July 2006, the Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin warned editors that the Prime Minister would not tolerate discussion of race and religion, and that those who did not stop discussing these matters would invite action.

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Masked and armed men burned down radio station Radyo Cagayano dwRC 90.1 FM in Cagayan province last July 2. Local and international media organisations condemn this latest in a series of attacks on journalists and press freedom in the Philippines.

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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen received both criticism and praise for his move to ban video mobile phone services in the country. Sen explained that he was prompted by a signature campaign of anti-pornography groups, which included his own wife. The ban was announced May 26 this year.

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The European Union renewed their request for more liberal trade in telecommunications and information technologies with members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a meeting held last June 19, 2006 in Singapore. The ASEAN includes Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Brunei and Burma.

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25 July - 1 August, 2006, Media Centre
Panos South Asia (PSA), Kathmandu, Nepal