News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 126
CHINA: Cyberlives Thrive Under the State’s Watchful Eyes
- Inter Press Service
Twenty-four-year-old Li Jun sits where he sits most nights of the week, in front of a computer in his local Internet cafe in the east of the Chinese capital, playing ‘World of Warcraft’.
MALDIVES: Education Reforms Herald Digital Learning, Radical Changes
- Inter Press Service
When students walk into the Majeediya Boys School in this capital of the Maldives every morning, they are invariably drawn to the digital notice board in the courtyard that carries important announcements.
UGANDA: Too Young to Know, Yet Too Young to Die
- Inter Press Service
Thirteen-year-old Jacinta Okello and her fellow primary school classmates call it 'doing bad manners'. But when you ask her what she knows about sex, she breaks into a shy smile, looks to her feet and giggles.
LITERATURE-CUBA: 'Forbidden Stories' by Sonia Rivera-Valdés
- Inter Press Service
Lázara wakes up every morning in her home in New York, has a cup of coffee and, with the same passion with which she takes a stand for or against every cause, she turns on the radio, hoping to hear the news that she has been waiting for most of her life: the demise of former Cuban president Fidel Castro.
DEVELOPMENT: Women Adamant for Change as the Maldives Struggles to Reform
- Inter Press Service
Authorities in the Maldives view women’s issues as a core human rights problem and are keen to tackle them head on, but cultural and religious issues often stand in the way.
BRAZIL: Murky Finances Haunt 2014 Football World Cup
- Inter Press Service
Delays in construction to prepare for the 2014 football World Cup, to be hosted by Brazil, bring to mind the budget overruns and the secretive bidding process ahead of the Pan-American Games held in Rio de Janeiro in 2007.
Female Presence Growing in Brazil's Gangs
- Inter Press Service
They are no longer simply the girlfriends of gang members. Women have increasingly become members themselves of Brazil's youth gangs over the past decade -- though they have yet to reach the leadership positions of their male colleagues.
CUBA: Church-State Dialogue Sends 'Signals' to the World
- Inter Press Service
The talks between the Catholic Church and the Cuban government are unprecedented in several respects in this socialist island nation, and this should be taken into account by the international community, experts say.
COLOMBIA: Drug Trade's Hold on Football Persists
- Inter Press Service
Football, the most popular sport in Colombia, has been subject to heavy pressures from drug trafficking since the mid-1970s. A new study shows that the illicit trade continues to tarnish the upper echelons of this sport.
JAPAN: Left-Behind Parents Want End to Single Child Custody System
- Inter Press Service
Masako Suzuki, 50, has been fighting tooth and nail for the last six years just to gain equal custody of her son, who lives with her estranged husband.
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