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Online readers who want to get the latest cover story of 'Time' magazine will now have to make do with an abridged version. If they want the whole story, they can either buy the magazine's print edition or download from the site's new iPad app.

Tens of thousands of copies of the latest edition of Tempo magazine were purchased by mystery buyers early on June 28.

By SAW YAN NAING

Jun 2, 2010

Amnesty International presented its “Journalism under Threat” award to Burma's community of independent journalists at a London ceremony on Tuesday, paying tribute to their bravery in tackling dangerous and difficult work. Several of those journalists contacted by The Irrawaddy said they were still active in conveying the true picture of events in Burma to the outside world.

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Palme d'Or top prize at the Cannes film festival Sunday for a surreal reincarnation tale, Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives).

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama will hold his first online chat with Chinese web users via Twitter on May 21 at 12 GMT, the Agence France Press reported.

In recent months, Facebook has revised its privacy policy, which is 5,830 words long, to require users to opt out if they wish to keep information private, making most of that information public by default. Some personal data is now being shared with third-party Web sites.

For many users of Facebook, the world’s largest social network, it was just the latest in a string of frustrations. On Wednesday, users discovered a glitch that gave them access to supposedly private information in the accounts of their Facebook friends, like chat conversations.

India is hosting its first ever Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival until Apr. 25 with 110 films showcasing gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters and stories. The films explore the diverse realities, complexities, joys and sorrows that make up their experiences in India and across the world.

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