News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 148
THAILAND: Talk of the Next Coup Raises Political Temperature
- Inter Press Service
A Thai national habit of openly speculating if this South-east Asian kingdom is on the verge of its next coup d’etat is in full flight.
BALKANS: Moderate Patriarch Sets New Course for Serb Church
- Inter Press Service
The enthronement of a moderate as patriarch of the influential Serbian Orthodox Church (SBC) has raised hopes for the planned integration of the country with the European Union (EU) and for Serbs coming to terms with the bloody Balkans wars of the 1990s.
PAKISTAN: Mental Illness among Women: Gender-Driven?
- Inter Press Service
No sooner does a visitor step into the facility than a surreal scene unfolds: The sound of laughter, the sight of ready smiles and vigorous, pumping handshakes mix with the acrid odor of an unwashed human body and the unbearable stench of neglect that in turn combines with the heavy smell of medicine.
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Global South's Growing Role in Post-Crisis World
- Inter Press Service
'Society and Governments: debates and alternatives for a post-crisis world' is the name of a Thematic World Social Forum meeting being held in the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
RIGHTS-UGANDA: Fugitives in Their Own Country
- Inter Press Service
Every morning Pepe Julian Onziema wakes up not knowing if she will live to see another rising sun. Onziema is transgender and she lives in fear for her life because of a national campaign criminalising gay people.
MEDIA: Foreign News Channels Drawing U.S. Viewers
- Inter Press Service
Television viewers in the United States seeking international news are starting to switch over to foreign channels to learn what is happening in the outside world, media watchers here say.
FRANCE: Burqa Ban Keeps Immigration Issue Alive
- Inter Press Service
With the French regional elections coming up in March and a debate on national identity raging, the burqa polemic is keeping the immigration and 'values' issue alive here.
PARAGUAY: Afro-Descendants Affirm Their Identity
- Inter Press Service
Black communities have for the most part remained out of sight and out of mind in Paraguay, but now they are organising and claiming equal economic and social rights, while building an Afro-Paraguayan identity.
ASIA: ‘Post-Disaster Psychosocial Support a Must for Children’
- Inter Press Service
When disaster strikes, acute stress disorders, especially among children, may follow. Yet the need for early psychosocial interventions is often overlooked, if not ignored.
US-CHINA: Spat Escalates Over Internet Freedom
- Inter Press Service
The stern warning given to China by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning internet censorship and responding to allegations that Chinese hackers had accessed Google email addresses has received a pointed response from the Chinese government, raising questions over what the next move will be for Google, the United States, and U.S. firms that do business in China.
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