City University of Hong Kong English Language Centre
EL0402 Current Issues
Useful websites
This list is influenced by my own web habits. All the sites are free to access. I think it is a good idea to encourage students to search for sites on their own and to evaluate what they find, but the following are OK as a start.
Broadcasting Organisations whose sites feature news pages
Radio Television Hong Kong
www.rthk.org,hk
BBC (British Broadcasting Corportation)
RTE (Radio Telefis Eirann)
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Societe Radio Canada)
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Radio New Zealand
Al-jazeera
Print media on the web
The Guardian, London, UK
The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland
The Times of India, Gurgaon, Delhi, India
www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, Chin
www.scmp.com - needs a password, I have not tracked it down yet.
New York Times, New York, NY, USA
The Sowetan, Cape Town/Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa
The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Canada
Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia