News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 150
HAITI: Social Networks Offer News, and Comfort
- Inter Press Service
On Tuesday, Jan. 12, a small story from the Associated Press came across the wires that an earthquake had hit Haiti. Almost instantly, phones began to ring as Haitian Americans started calling each other to find out if there was more to this story.
ARTS: Cuban Musicians Resuming U.S. Performances
- Inter Press Service
New York City recently hosted its first Cuban band in five years, after the group Septeto Nacional became the first to win a visa that allowed it to accept a booking there.
INDIA: Hill Women Form Cooperative, Turn Entrepreneurs
- Inter Press Service
Women in Uttarkashi district of the hill state of Uttarakhand in India, traditionally sidelined from the developmental processes, are forming their own cooperative and producing processed food items, giving big multinational brands a run for their money in local markets.
CULTURE: 'Understanding Diversity Can Help Avoid Clashes'
- Inter Press Service
The International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures (2010) has not had an auspicious start.
MEXICO: Journalists' Options - Silence, Exile or the Grave
- Inter Press Service
Journalists are the target of such violence in Mexico that many have been forced to seek refuge in the United States, or to give up their profession. And the outlook at the start of this year is even grimmer for media workers in this country.
DEVELOPMENT: Integration Key to Easing Migration Tensions
- Inter Press Service
Greater interaction and integration are crucial to easing social tensions in countries that are host to a growing number of migrants, experts say.
ZAMBIA: Police Breaking the Law to Prevent Crime
- Inter Press Service
Juniper Mwale was attending a funeral in another town when her husband jumped bail and fled the country. Despite not being aware of her husband's escape, police tracked her down and detained her illegally in an effort to force her spouse home.
DEVELOPMENT-CAMBODIA: Minority Languages Face Extinction
- Inter Press Service
One of Cambodia’s oldest languages — S’aoch — appears headed for extinction in the next decade. Other languages spoken by its minority people are lining up to take the place of the 6,000-year-old language in the most endangered category.
MEXICO: Activists Worried About 'Secret' Internet Treaty
- Inter Press Service
An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn.
MALAYSIA: Religious Intolerance Threatens Secular Foundation
- Inter Press Service
Days of simmering religious tension over a New Year’s Eve court ruling allowing Catholics to use the Arabic word ‘Allah’ to denote the Christian God has boiled over after unknown individuals tried to burn down three churches in the capital.
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