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Pay-TV viewers are promised more choice by next March

VARIETY is in store for South African viewers when three more pay-TV channels hit the small screen by March next year. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) initially received about 18 applications from independent pay-TV operators and five were shortlisted by the end of last year. Only three licences have been issued so far to MultiChoice, Telkom Media and On Digital Media. The other two operators, Walking-On-Water and E-Sat, are still engaged in talks with Icasa...

BANGLADESH: Amina Khatoon: "Our village just fell into the river"

NATORE Monday, October 20, 2008 (IRIN) - Amina Khatoon, 8, lives in a village on the bank of one of several water channels that feed the Chalan Beel, an oxbow lake in northwestern Bangladesh that lies in a flood-prone region. Bangladesh, which has the largest floodplain in the world, drains the waters of three major river systems originating in the Himalayas — the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna, into the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. Global warming is expected to increase glacial...

No Immediate Plans to Meet with Beijing, says new Taiwanese President

President Ma Ying-jeou recently ruled out the possibility of visiting China and Hong Kong but said official channels of communication between both sides of the Taiwan Strait would resume shortly. Emphasising that his administration would like to resume bilateral talks based on the “1992 consensus,” Ma told his first international press conference since taking the oath of office that he did not have any plans to visit China and that there was no hurry for leaders of both sides to meet. He said...

Converting your PC into a TV – a practical checklist

We are lucky to find ourselves living in a golden age, the golden age of digital imagery. Digital imagery has been slowly but steadily becoming an integral part of our lives over the last decade. And now it has reached a level that it has changed just about every way we interact with the World. And the way that the World interacts with us. Every form of digital media now is faster, clearer, better and less expensive. One of greatest breakthroughs in the early part of the 21st century is the...