News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 42
CHINA: Revisiting History Is In, But With Much Caution
- Inter Press Service
The headlines of the day’s newspapers strike passersby as being strangely out of sync with today’s events: ‘China’s quick deployment in the war with India astonishes the world’. Or ‘Corruption dealt with the bullet by Mao Zedong’, and ‘The true reason why Stalin repeatedly postponed Mao Zedong’s visit to the USSR’.
Q&A: Cuba's Catholic Media Multiply, But Change Is Slow
- Inter Press Service
In the context of ongoing conciliation between the Cuban government and the Roman Catholic Church, the communications media of the latter are growing quickly on this Caribbean island where the press remains under strict state control.
Following a Paper Trail Out of Homelessness
- Inter Press Service
While questions of funding and accountability shadow the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), some actors have taken matters into their own hands. On Wednesday, the Glasgow-based International Network for Street Papers (INSP) announced that it has helped 200,000 people to get off the streets and onto a path of opportunity.
SOUTH AMERICA: Student Exchanges to Foster Mercosur Identity
- Inter Press Service
An exchange programme was launched this week for university students in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, to foster a broader sense of belonging to South America's Mercosur bloc.
Homophobia-Free Churches in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
Alejandro González left the Catholic Church to join the gay-supportive Metropolitan Community Churches in Mexico, in search of a more open and tolerant place of worship.
MALAYSIA: Battle Over Indigenous Groups’ Land Rights Shaping Up
- Inter Press Service
As the tabling in Parliament of a proposed law affecting their ancestral land draws near, Malaysia’s Orang Asli or ‘original people’ are gearing up anew for moves to challenge it.
PAKISTAN: Truck Art Makes For Moving Canvasses on Highways
- Inter Press Service
For Karachi-based event manager Shabnam Abdullah, it is a 'primary representation of Pakistan'. Quite enamoured with the unique art form, Abdullah has even used it for a few workshops she arranged for her corporate clients.
Gypsies, or How to Be Invisible in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
In the story 'Gente bella' (Beautiful People), the Mexican dictator of the day sends a mission to Europe to import 300 families and thus 'whiten the race, to put an end to laziness.' Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria cheats him and sends, for the price of gold, gypsies.
Cuba Maps Its Rock Music History
- Inter Press Service
Cuban rock 'n' roll, once an underground movement, is being mapped for inclusion in an exhaustive compendium of Latin American rock -- from the music itself to its transformation into a lifestyle.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Identity of Black People Recognised, But Needs Neglected
- Inter Press Service
Although their human rights are increasingly recognised, blacks in Mexico and Central America are the poorest and most marginalised people in Latin America, according to experts.
Powered by
