News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 107
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Burma's Muslim Rohingyas - The New Boat People
- Inter Press Service
It happened decades ago when this region was gripped by the fallout of the United States’ war in Vietnam. But the ‘boat people’ phenomenon is back, and this time it has to do with Burma’s Muslim Rohingyas fleeing harsh realities at home.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Year Later Apology to Lost Generations Looks Hollow
- Inter Press Service
One year after the historic apology made to indigenous Australians by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on behalf of the nation, conjecture remains over whether enough has been done to support the acknowledgement of wrongs inflicted on the first Australians.
TECHNOLOGY-US: Digital TV for All? Not so Fast
- Inter Press Service
Imagine turning on your television and all you see is black and white fuzz.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Signs of a Thaw
- Inter Press Service
A week after Islamabad admitted that the plot to carry out the Nov. 26-29 attacks on Mumbai was partially planned in Pakistan, and that Pakistani nationals were among the assailants, there are tentative signs that the strained relations between the two neighbours may be thawing.
PAKISTAN: Militants Make Aid Work Risky
- Inter Press Service
The kidnapping of John Solecki of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees(UNHCR)in Quetta, Balochistan province seems to confirm the perception of international humanitarian organisations that aid work in Pakistan is becoming increasingly hazardous.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: New Beginning Uncertain - Top Analysts
- Inter Press Service
Almost three months after the terrorist attacks on India’s commercial hub of Mumbai, which soured relations between India and Pakistan, the prospect for renewed cooperation between the nuclear-armed neighbours looks dim, two eminent analysts from the region conceded at a policy dialogue here.
PAKISTAN/INDIA: Taliban As Common Enemy
- Inter Press Service
Since being elected to office five months ago, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has often declared that Pakistan’s single biggest challenge stems from ‘religious’ militants.
CULTURE-NIGERIA: Award-Winning Film Lands Director in Jail
- Inter Press Service
The first time I visited award-winning Northern Nigerian filmmaker Hamisu Lamido Iyan-Tama in prison, a week after his arrest, the former Kano State gubernatorial candidate seemed to be in high spirits.
VENEZUELA: Chávez - A Referendum of His Very Own
- Inter Press Service
After a decade in office, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez goes to the country on Sunday in another attempt to change the constitution so that he can stand for reelection 'for at least another 10 years'.
TECHNOLOGY: Fab Labs Channel Your Inner Scientist
- Inter Press Service
Inside the confines of a modest 275-square-metre office space in this southern California city, the human imagination is running wild.
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