Global IssuesNews headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 8
Malaysian Socialists on Bumpy Road to Revival
- Inter Press Service
As Prime Minister Najib Razak prepares to dissolve parliament for snap polls, Malaysia’s socialists are seeing an opportunity to make a comeback after nearly five decades in the political wilderness.
Could Mining Threaten Mongolia's Tourism Potential?
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years ago, when a Dutch cyclist named Rik Idema first passed through Mongolia on a round-the-world biking trip, the country struck him as the most pristine place he'd ever seen.
Winds of Lent Blowing in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
Debates in civil society, tension with internal opposition groups, demands from outside the country and inevitable comparisons with John Paul II’s visit to this socialist island in 1998 surrounded Benedict XVI’s visit 14 years later to a very different Cuba.
OP-ED: Tunisia's Youth and Their Fight for Freedom of Expression
- Inter Press Service
In Tunisia, a new debate is taking shape. Long suppressed by the authoritarian regime of former President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia's free expression movement for many years existed on the fringe, comprised of bloggers, software developers, media aficionados and expats whose frustration at Tunisia's Internet censorship and surveillance regime — in place for over a decade — fomented their activism.
Learning Lessons From the Khmer Rouge
- Inter Press Service
For four years, Wan Preung toiled in the fields under the Khmer Rouge, unable to speak his mind. But after the regime fell in 1979, there was still one sensitive subject the teacher could seldom broach with his students: the Khmer Rouge.
Pope Strikes Moderate Tone in Cuba
- Inter Press Service
On his three-day visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI has so far struck a moderate tone, although he called on Catholics in this country to fight with the 'weapons' of peace and understanding for an 'open, renewed society.'
Locals Don't Want Cell Phone Towers Next to See-saws in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
'You see? That's where they were going to put the antenna,' says Alicia Suncín, pointing to a spot in the middle of a park in the Salvadoran capital where a private company was planning to erect a cell phone tower, 10 metres away from swings and see-saws where children play.
Activists in Mexico Want to Be Heard by the Pope
- Inter Press Service
Spiralling violence, demands for justice voiced by victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests, and ordination of women priests are issues that, in the view of experts and activists, Pope Benedict XVI will not be able to evade in his visit to Mexico.
Red Tape Mutes Community Radio in India
- Inter Press Service
Security concerns appear to have stymied the growth of community radio (CR) in India, a vast and diverse country of 1.2 billion people, the bulk of them living in remote, rural areas.
Taliban Face the Music in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
Not so long ago, Gul Pana’s pursuit of a career as a professional singer in Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) province would have invited certain death at the hands of the Taliban.
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