News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 41
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Motherhood Is A Choice, Say Activists
- Inter Press Service
For years, Kanako Nashimura longed to have a child, but was diagnosed as having a blocked fallopian tube. Encouraged by her husband and in-laws, she tried various fertility treatments, but not one of them worked.
CHINA: As Tourists Come, Culture Goes
- Inter Press Service
In 2005, the ‘National Geographic China’ magazine named this ethnic Tibetan village in western Sichuan province, sprawled over a valley wall amid snow-capped mountains, China’s most beautiful. Depending on how you look at it, that distinction was either a blessing or a curse.
AUSTRALIA: Campaign Continues for Parliamentary Seats for Aborigines
- Inter Press Service
Ken Wyatt stood, draped in a traditional kangaroo-skin shroud. In a voice wavering at times with emotion, the only indigenous Australian ever elected to this nation’s lower house of Parliament presented his inaugural address.
MEXICO: Juárez Residents Fight for Safe Public Spaces
- Inter Press Service
The setting sun creates long shadows on the pavement in the crowded Del Safari neighbourhood in the southwest of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Casting the shadows are young people playing percussion instruments or children breakdancing or performing daring skateboard jumps.
MIDEAST: Treasure House Under Threat
- Inter Press Service
Few outside of Gaza would consider its history much beyond the decades of Israeli occupation. But Gaza is a historical treasure house. Many of those treasures are now in Israeli museums, and those that remain are becoming difficult to preserve due to the Israeli siege.
BURMA: Ahead of Poll, Junta Faces Off with A Familiar Foe — Radio
- Inter Press Service
As military-ruled Burma heads towards its first general election in two decades in November, its citizens are tuning in to their enduring faith in the old communication order — the power of the radio.
EGYPT: Gag Tightens on Media Ahead of Elections
- Inter Press Service
Media watchdogs see the 'invisible hand' of the ruling party behind a string of firings and resignations that have removed some of Egypt's most prominent government critics from their soapboxes just weeks before parliamentary elections.
Chinese Art Appears With Health Warning
- Inter Press Service
China's rebel artist Ai Weiwei had intended a political message. And may be a truly memorable metaphor for the state of modern China and humanity as a whole. But the final outcome of his multimedia installation at the London's Tate Modern may have been rather unexpected, for what he got was a striking symbol of the 'Made in China' effect on the world.
BHUTAN: Slowly, Internet and Communication Let the World In
- Inter Press Service
An introduction in Bhutan these days is usually accompanied by 'I'm on Facebook!' Anjali Bista, 11, is no exception.
CUBA: The Environment Plays the Lead in Low-Budget Cinema
- Inter Press Service
Scientists and experts took on the challenge of sharing their environmental concerns with filmmakers at the Third Thematic Showcase of the Humberto Solás Low-Budget Film Festival in the Cuban capital.
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