News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 101
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: New PM Must Overcome Credibility Deficit
- Inter Press Service
Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi steps down this month, forced out by powerful factions in the ruling United Malay National Organisation (UMNO) that feared his liberal policies and compromising ways with political opponents who wish to dismantle rule by an entrenched elite.
/CORRECTED REPEAT*/US-MEXICO: Clinton Visit Has Aura of Drug Intervention
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will augment already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
MEDIA-PERU: Women Outnumber, But Men Have the Power
- Inter Press Service
At the start of the new academic year at Peruvian universities this month, women made up between 65 and 72 percent of students in first-year courses in communication and journalism departments, a phenomenon that is reflected in the growing presence of women reporters in newspapers all over the country.
LABOUR-US: The Daddy Dilemma
- Inter Press Service
While more men are taking advantage of paternity leave or even quitting their jobs entirely to raise small children while their wives go to work, the social stigma attached to fathers who take on roles traditionally viewed as female has been far slower to diminish.
RIGHTS: U.S. Condemned for Boycott of Racism Conference
- Inter Press Service
Amid calls for Washington to increase its engagement with the international community, U.S.-based rights groups and civil libertarians are denouncing the Barack Obama’s administration’s boycott of a global conference against racism next month.
MIDEAST: To be an Arab, and an Israeli
- Inter Press Service
The cluster of blue-and-white Stars of David - Israel's national flag - had seen better days. In the wake of unseasonably heavy rain, they looked limp, anything but proud - in direct contrast to the mark their bearers hoped to make.
POLITICS-JAPAN: On Trial 60 Years Later
- Inter Press Service
Although it concluded more than 60 years ago, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial is still a live issue today - in Japan as in the world at large.
CULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Old Master Challenges Film-makers to Look Within
- Inter Press Service
Haile Gerima's film 'Teza' may only have come to the world's attention when it won Africa’s highest prize in Ouagadougou on Mar. 7, but it has been a sensation in his native Ethiopia since it premiered in Addis Ababa at the start of the year.
US-MEXICO: Clinton Visit Has Aura of Drug Intervention
- Inter Press Service
The Barack Obama administration announced this week that it will boost already massive foreign aid to its southern neighbour in a bid to help Mexico fight cartels smuggling drugs into the U.S., as well as sending a series of high-level U.S. officials to Mexico to consult with their counterparts.
MIDEAST: U.S. Jews Open to Palestinian Unity Govt
- Inter Press Service
Contrary to the views of the likely incoming right-wing government of Israel, most U.S. Jews favour peace negotiations with a Palestinian unity government that would include Hamas, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the year-old, pro-peace Jewish lobby group, J Street.
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