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WE CAN'T SEE!



 





   UAE censor targets Facebook, Myspace and Orkut...

     Sections of popular social networking websites Facebook and Myspace will be banned in the UAE under new rules from the nation’s telecom regulator, Emirates Business 24-7 reported on Thursday.

     The new regulations regarding access to the internet currently being considered by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) will also apply to Dubai’s Media Free Zone, which presently has unrestricted internet access.

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XPRESS NEWSPAPER HAS NEW DESIGN EDITOR



 




Biplob Roy, Art Editor
Xpress Newspaper
Dubai- United Arab Emirates		  Xpress, the lead free tabloid in Dubai has the new Art Editor, Biplob Roy who joined the Al Nirs Media Group since 2003 and had worked in many sections and lead design position in the group will manage the design department of the successful tabloid in United Arab Emirates.

      Biblob is married and have a beautiful daughter called Breenda Saha Roy, 5 years old, last year he participated in SND Boston workshop, for the first time and enjoyed the experience to share and meet new friends in the Congress.

      He had a bachelor's degree from the University of Dhaka Bangladesh in Fine Arts. Before he was a lead designer from the magazine’s group.
      “I love to do creative work with the team to achieve the good reader ship and Xpress has all quality to do a great work” says Biblob



SEPTEMBER 7-9, 2008- RED ROCK RESORT & CASINO
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NEWSPAPER TOTAL AUDIENCE IS GROWING!



 



     Newspapers around the globe are extending their reach through the internet and other media, yet print circulation generally remains the standard for measuring newspaper audience. New global initiatives to provide a more complete picture of newspaper audience through cross-media measurements are the subject of a major session at the upcoming World Newspaper

     Advertising Conference & Expo. The World Association of Newspapers conference, to be held on 13 and 14 March in Budapest, Hungary, will examine the latest cross-media audience measurement techniques and include a report from the Media Measurement Integration Task Force, a global alliance dedicated to promoting new cross-media measurement standards (http://www.wan-press.org/MMITF/home.php).

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TERRORISM IS A GLOBAL CANCER

 


Illustration: Nino Jose Heredia/ Gulf News

     By any measure, the Arab countries have emerged as the principal victims of global terror. According to some estimates, terrorism and measures aimed against it have cost the Arab states the equivalent of 1.2 per cent in annual economic growth rate since 2000.

     In some Arab countries, the so-called security industry has been the fastest growing sector of the economy. Since 2001, Arab budgets to fight terrorism have quadrupled on the average.

     And, yet, in many respects, these states are the least prepared to defend themselves.

     The Arab states do not yet have a central database for terrorists, as do the European Union nations since 1995. A terrorist could move from one country to another without being traced.
by Amir Taheri, Special to Gulf News




NEW IRAQI FLAG

 


from Reuters

     A new Iraqi flag stripped of Saddam-era symbols was hoisted over the Iraqi Cabinet building in Baghdad.
     Earlier this month, parliament voted to remove Saddam-related symbols from the banner, including the three stars thought to represent the objectives of Saddam’s now outlawed Baath party.
     The calligraphy of the Arabic words Allahu Akbar (God is Great), which was in Saddam’s own handwriting, was also changed to a different script. The changes were prompted by a row with Iraq's Kurdish minority, who threatened to boycott the old banner during a pan-Arab meeting in the country later on February.






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