News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 124
CHINA: A Year After Xinjiang Riots, Ethnic Tensions Simmer
- Inter Press Service
More than a year after the riots in China’s remote Xinjiang autonomous region, the country’s bloodiest ethnic clash in decades, calm has returned to the capital Urumqi. But the underlying tensions remain — tensions that Beijing will be forced to address as it moves forward in its campaign to develop the country’s west.
MALAWI: Women Candidates Desperate to Finance Freebies for Voters
- Inter Press Service
Mable Malinda wants to contest the local government elections but the independent candidate who is using her life savings to fund her campaign only has 500 dollars left in her bank account. She has already spent three times as much buying handouts for voters — an unofficial requirement when contesting elections in Malawi.
More Than 200 Ways of Becoming a Mother
- Inter Press Service
'You can only have one mother,' as the saying goes, but in Brazil there are 215 ways of becoming a mother, one for each of the ethnic groups in this South American country. Promoting maternal health while respecting cultural traditions is a major health challenge.
THAILAND: For Transgenders, Identity Papers Are No Simple Matter
- Inter Press Service
In New Zealand, where Sujinrat Prachathai enjoys resident status, she is a woman able to append ‘Mrs’ to her name to signify that she is married. Here in Thailand, however, she has to be addressed as ‘Mr’ since she is still considered male even though she underwent a sex-change operation years ago.
SPORTS: Power and Passion Put Football Above the Law
- Inter Press Service
The FIFA Football World Cup is presented -- and felt emotionally by millions -- as a contest amongst countries in which national honour is at stake. But it is also a private business, controlled by a small group of people who exploit patriotism and foment rivalries in marketing the 'product.'
INDIA: ‘Green Cremation’ Gets A Second Look
- Inter Press Service
Unmindful of the monsoons lashing the Dehradun area in the Himalayan foothills in northern India, Girdhari Singh returns from work daily with a headload of wood that he finds along the road, and stacks it to dry in the cattleshed.
Football Leaves Legacy of Hope in Namibia
- Inter Press Service
Throughout the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, organisers have insisted that the legacy of the even goes far beyond the sporting spectacle. In the dusty streets of a Windhoek township, Deon Namiseb believes this is true.
Controversy Dogs Brazil's Racial Equality Law
- Inter Press Service
The Statute of Racial Equality, soon to be signed into law in Brazil, is at the centre of a controversy between those who consider it a historical achievement, like the abolition of slavery in 1888, and those who see it as failing to satisfy the demands of the black movement.
CNN's Objectivity Questioned in Sacking of Mideast Reporter
- Inter Press Service
CNN's firing of Octavia Nasr, the editor responsible for the network's Middle East coverage, over a Twitter post in which she expressed her sadness over the death of a Lebanese cleric has set off a firestorm of debate about what the decision says about CNN's fairness in reporting on the region.
MEXICO: Local Media in the Line of Fire
- Inter Press Service
It is open season on local media in states and cities in the interior of Mexico, which are virtually unprotected against violent attack and have been the worst hit by the murders of at least eight journalists this year.
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