KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 (Bernama) -- The assumption that control of the mainstream media (MSM) by the government was the cause of blogs to proliferate is not correct, said Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures fell after Cisco Systems Inc. forecast the first revenue decline in five years and News Corp. cut its profit outlook, deepening concern the economic slowdown will hurt earnings.

LAHORE --- The media has fallen from its traditional role of being the gatekeeper of the truth and is helping promote militancy, while the government is failing to provide people with the basic security, says the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)

Police shot dead an alleged Tibetan independence "insurgent" in north-west China, state media said on Wednesday, the first official admission that authorities killed anyone during recent unrest.

Iran on Monday ordered the Fars news agency, one of the country's most prominent news organizations and normally considered close to the government, to close for three days for publishing "false news." "We have received a letter from the commission fo