India: Lift ban on Pakistan TV channels, says media watchdog (AKI) - (By Syed Saleem Shahzad) - The media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has asked the Indian government to lift its ban on Pakistani television channels in Indian-administered K

Digest of headline news as of 3:40 p.m. Moscow time on October 9: BUSINESS & FINANCE *** GOVT CONSIDERING FUND TO PURCHASE ASSETS FROM PROBLEM BANKS - ZADORNOV The Russian government is considering formation of a special state fund that would purchase qua

Efforts to drain a swollen "quake lake" in southwest China have been succeeding, but a government minister warned the situation remained dangerous, state media said.

There’s something seriously askew in a Western democracy when the media provides the only serious scrutiny of the Government in the lead-up to the most important economic policy event for a number of years.

Foreign journalists covering the Beijing Olympics must take care to avoid placing Chinese assistants and news sources at risk of arrest when covering sensitive topics, a US watchdog group says.