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Written December 3, 2007 in Uncategorized
The MDA said in a statement today that they will allow Singtel to give it’s pay-TV subscribers access to the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera English News Service. Al-Jazeera is the equivalent of BBC/CNN to the Arab world. It gives a good alternative perspective to the world, compared to CNN which in my opinion is far too American biased, and also to my news staple BBC. Where BBC and CNN gives a much capitalistic view on the world, Al-Jazeera gives a much more balance social view. Remember my previous post on the Malaysian minister disgracing himself? Yep, that was on Al-Jazeera.
I survived 2 years in Europe on my Let’s Go Europe 2006 and Lonely Planet’s Europe on Shoestring. I toured this part of the world with nothing more than a guidebook in hand, and walking blindly in the many glorious cities of Europe, keeping faith in the American writers of Let’s Go and Australia writers [...]
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