The Fiji Sun's publisher, Russell Hunter, was deported Tuesday after his paper printed reports that the country's finance minister, Mahendra Chaudhry, had engaged in tax evasion.

Hunter was described by the Fijian government as being a threat to national stability. He was given deportation documents Monday night by four soldiers and an immigration official and arrived in Australia Tuesday afternoon, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday.

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Social networking has been booming in Australia and New Zealand, according to a recent Nielsen Online study.

According to the study, 55 percent of Australian and 62 percent of New Zealand's online users used a social network in 2007.

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Yahoo has finally announced the launch of its long-rumored Buzz portal, a social news site where users can vote on stories, and send the most popular stories to a featured spot on the Yahoo homepage, according to the Wired Blog Network.

It is obvious Yahoo Buzz is aimed to compete against Digg and Reddit. However, Buzz is not simply trying to imitate Digg, the Wired Blog Network reported.

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Weekly business newspaper The Myanmar Times, which is closely tied to Burma's ruling junta, may soon be permitted to publish the country's first privately owned daily newspaper since the military took over power in Myanmar in 1962, The Irrawaddy reported Monday.

Sources in Rangoon told The Irrawaddy, a Thailand-based newspaper that covers Burma and Southeast Asia, that it seems “very likely” The Myanmar Times will receive permission to publish the new privately owned daily following a national referendum held by the regime, which is scheduled for May.

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As part of a deal with a media watchdog group, Norwegian media group Schibsted ASA will sell its entire 34.3 percent stake in newspaper group Adresseavisen ASA in order to create its Media Norge newspaper group.

The Independent Media Ownership Council authorised Media Norge's establishment Tuesday, on the condition that Schibsted sell its Adresseavisen shares, Thomson Financial reported.

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