http://www.globalissues.org/news/topic/165 2012-02-11T17:08:52-08:00 Global Issues Inter Press Service http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues.png http://www.globalissues.org/i/globalissues/logo-feed.jpg © Inter Press Servicehttp://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/09/126702012-02-09T02:26:00-08:00

<p>A recent series of public spats between Hong Kong locals and mainland Chinese have highlighted escalating tensions between Beijing and the former colony - and heralded in one of the most conspicuous anti-mainland campaigns seen in Hong Kong since the handover.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/08/126692012-02-08T22:11:00-08:00

<p>Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) issues have generally been ignored in the Philippines, or worse, negatively portrayed to spice up mainstream media programmes. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/06/126372012-02-06T17:56:00-08:00

<p>The lack of transparency in the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is raising concerns over the social implications of hosting the football championship and fears that the country's most democratic and popular sport will only be accessible to the wealthy.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/03/126102012-02-03T00:47:00-08:00

<p>If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the path to peace between India and Pakistan may lie in the commonalities in their cultures and cuisines. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/02/126012012-02-02T10:00:00-08:00

<p>A landmark concert featuring artistes from eight of the ten South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) took place here on Jan. 21, in an effort to build a regional community through the common language of music.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/02/01/125962012-02-01T18:49:00-08:00

<p>The government of the state of Rio de Janeiro is unveiling a battery of creative tactics to engage the population in the battle against dengue fever, which is threatening to reach unprecedented epidemic proportions as a new virus strain hits Brazil.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/31/125862012-01-31T23:43:00-08:00

<p>Radio Mega FM’s transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord’s Resistance Army’s destruction of northern Uganda.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/29/125622012-01-29T21:41:00-08:00

<p>'It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did something…I screamed out in pain,' recalls Alefia Mustansir, 40, of her childhood experience. </p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/29/125612012-01-29T04:48:00-08:00

<p>'I’d say there are around 5,000 of us in the country, but if you ask me next week we may well be under 3,000. After twenty centuries of history in Mesopotamia, we Mandaeans, are about to vanish.' Anxiety about the future of his people is more than evident in the figures given by Saad Atiah Majid, chairman of Basra’s Mandaean Council.</p>

http://www.globalissues.org/news/2012/01/26/125482012-01-26T16:57:00-08:00

<p>Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.</p>