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Phoumi Vongvichit ( Lao: ພູມີ ວົງວິຈິດ; 6 April 1909 – 7 January 1994) was a leading figure of the Pathet Lao and an elder statesman of the Lao People's Democratic Republic . He was born April 6, 1909, in Xieng Khouang, the son of a civil servant. He was educated in the Lao capital Vientiane, after which he joined the ...
Phoumi Nosavan was a prominent Lao military and political figure of the Laotian Civil War. He was of Chinese-Lao heritage. [3] He was born in Savannakhet, the French Protectorate of Laos. He was educated there, and in Vientiane. He became a civil servant in the French colonial government. As World War II wound down in 1945, he joined the ...
The World Press Freedom Index ( WPFI) is an annual ranking of countries compiled and published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) since 2002 based upon the organization's own assessment of the countries' press freedom records in the previous year. It intends to reflect the degree of freedom that journalists, news organizations, and netizens ...
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In an effort to curb dissent, KMT promulgated the Enforcement Rules for the Publications Act in 1952, which effectively banned the establishment of any more new magazines, newspapers and news agencies during Taiwan's martial law era (1949–1987). From 1952 to 1987, there were 31 newspapers in Taiwan, and by 1974, 44 news agencies.
Media teams operation in the region have also been exposed to various kinds of cyberattack, with the Jerusalem Post website going down on 9 October, with Anonymous Sudan claiming responsibility. The Palestinian Authority news agency Wafa also experienced a cyberattack on 18 October, as did Al-Jazeera English on 31 October and Al-Mamlaka TV on 3 ...
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka ( Zulu pronunciation: [pʰumziːle m̩lamboᵑǀʱuːkʼa] ⓘ; born 3 November 1955) [1] [2] is a South African politician and former United Nations official, who served as the Executive Director of UN Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations . Mlambo-Ngcuka served as Deputy President of South ...
The Pumi (also Primi or Premi) [1] people ( Tibetan: བོད་མི་, Wylie: bod mi, Chinese: 普米族; pinyin: Pǔmǐzú, autonym: /pʰʐə̃˥.mi˥/) are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by China . Ethnically related to the Tibetans of the Mili Tibetan Autonomous County and Yanyuan County in ...