http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/ Latest news and stories from FRONTLINE/World Copyright 2009 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:38:38 -0400 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Photojournalist Marco Vernaschi talks with iWitness about the intimate portraits he captured of assassins, addicts and prostitutes, all caught up in West Africa's growing drugs trade. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/06/guinea_bissau_a.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/06/guinea_bissau_a.html iWitness Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:38:38 -0400 Jason Motlagh has been reporting from Afghanistan for several months, first embedding with U.S. troops and most recently looking at the other side of the conflict -- the growing numbers of civilian casualties. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/afghanistan_the_2.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/afghanistan_the_2.html iWitness Fri, 29 May 2009 20:55:11 -0400 Journalists Sarah Stuteville and Alex Stonehill spent six weeks crisscrossing Pakistan to report on the country's growing education crisis. They spoke recently with iWitness from Karachi about their experience. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/pakistan_educat.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/pakistan_educat.html iWitness Tue, 26 May 2009 21:16:06 -0400 On the eve of May 2, 2008, Cyclone Nargis ripped through the Burmese delta killing 100,000 and leaving millions more homeless. A year on, our correspondent visits the devastated area and finds tent cities and surprising pockets of renewal. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/burma_after_sto.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/05/burma_after_sto.html iWitness Fri, 01 May 2009 15:27:17 -0400 _pap_embed('frow03s2ae6q99d'); Editor's Note: "I believe in telling the truth," says filmmaker Sharmeed Obaid-Chinoy. In this webcam interview, she tells us why she undertook such a dangerous journey in her native Pakistan to document how the Taliban are repressing young girls... http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/04/interview_with.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/04/interview_with.html iWitness Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:26:38 -0400 In a week when a peace deal was officially signed between the Pakistan government and Taliban leaders in Swat Valley, Sharmeen-Obaid Chinoy writes about the growing reach and power of the Pakistani Taliban and its violent reprisals. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/04/pakistanas_tali.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/04/pakistanas_tali.html Pakistan Blog Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:05:43 -0400 Why rank and file soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles went on a killing spree earlier this week that left at least 56 of their senior officers dead is still shrouded in mystery. Our reporter, on the scene soon after, describes how events unfolded. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/03/bangladesh_the.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/03/bangladesh_the.html iWitness Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:02:37 -0400 As President Obama announced this week that the U.S is sending 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, we spoke with reporter Jason Motlagh, who has just returned from embedding with U.S troops in several troubled provinces along the Pakistan border. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/afghanistan_a_h.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/afghanistan_a_h.html iWitness Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:51:08 -0400 As an international tribunal convened in Cambodia this week to try leaders of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, one man imprisoned is Pol Pot's second-in-command, Nuon Chea, the subject of a 2002 FRONTLINE/World story. Reporter Amanda Pike checks in on what the new trials mean for the country. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/cambodia_confro.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/cambodia_confro.html Dispatches Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:46:58 -0400 Days after U.S. special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke toured Pakistan's strategic Swat valley, the Pakistani government announced a surprising deal with the Taliban. FRONTLINE/World's David Montero reported from Swat last year providing early warnings of the Taliban's growing power in the region. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/pakistan_an_uns.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/02/pakistan_an_uns.html Editors' Notes Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:54:16 -0400 Just as a power sharing agreement between Robert Mugabe and the opposition MDC party was announced today in Zimbabwe, we talk with our correspondent there about the situation, which she describes in terrifying detail. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/01/iwitness_zimbab.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/01/iwitness_zimbab.html iWitness Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:13:55 -0400 Video blogger Bernhard Drax talks about the "Gone Gitmo" project, a re-creation of Guantanamo Bay in the virtual world Second Life. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/01/virtual_gitmo_h.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2009/01/virtual_gitmo_h.html iWitness Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:23:22 -0400 To understand how Siemens, one of the world's biggest companies, last week ended up paying $1.6 billion in the largest fine for bribery in modern corporate history, it's worth delving into the unusual journey of Reinhard Siekaczek, a former midlevel executive at the company. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/siemens_bribery.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/siemens_bribery.html Dispatches Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:30:39 -0400 In this webcam interview from Mumbai, reporter Dev Chatterjee recounts the 60-hour ordeal of covering the terrorist attacks across the city. Also, read his written account below. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/mumbai_eyewitne.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/mumbai_eyewitne.html iWitness Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:49:49 -0400 FRONTLINE/World correspondent Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy talks over webcam from Karachi, where the Mumbai terrorists allegedly began their journey, about Pakistani reactions to the attacks and the blame being laid at their door. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/mumbai_is_pakis.html http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rss/redir/frontlineworld/blog/2008/12/mumbai_is_pakis.html iWitness Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:28:30 -0400