News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 59
EGYPT: New Head of Al-Azhar Quits Party Politics
- Inter Press Service
When Ahmed al-Tayeb, the newly-appointed grand sheikh of Egypt's prestigious Al-Azhar religious institution, relinquished his membership in President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), it carried significance.
FIJI: Gov’t Not Backing Down on Controversial Draft Media Law
- Inter Press Service
Fiji’s draft media decree continues to be criticised from within and outside this tiny Pacific nation, but the government is showing no signs of backing down or softening any of its provisions.
CUBA: Keeping the Festival Magic Alive
- Inter Press Service
As the cinema lights switched off, the groups of painters, impromptu filmmakers and craftspeople who filled the parks and plazas of this eastern Cuban town over the past week began to drift away. The musicians who played every night till dawn are gone, and so are the vendors of prawn cocktails, crabmeat pies and roast suckling pig.
CUBA: Children Reach Out Through the Screen to Peers in Post-Quake Haiti
- Inter Press Service
Five girls and five boys are taking time to remember the hurricane that devastated their home town of Gibara in eastern Cuba two years ago, mingling their memories with their dreams, and filming images to make a video message for children in Haiti.
ASIA: English-Language Media a Double-Edged Sword?
- Inter Press Service
The English language, as a medium for reporting in the region, is both a boon and a bane for many countries in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of getting ‘heard’ or generally being ignored by the global community.
POLITICS: Not Quite Cricket: India’s Most Popular Sport on Trial
- Inter Press Service
Allegations that India’s junior foreign minister Shashi Tharoor had swung outsize ‘sweat equity’ for a female friend in a newly floated professional cricket league franchise may have cost him his job, but it may also expose the multi- million dollar India Premium League (IPL) as a massive money-laundering enterprise.
ARGENTINA: We're Drowning in Sadness' - Native Group's Land Flooded
- Inter Press Service
The legal battle waged by an indigenous community in northern Argentina against the government over a project that flooded half of their territory highlights the fact that legal title to their land is not enough to overcome the marginalisation they have faced for centuries.
POLITICS-BURMA: Ethnic Rebel Groups Defy Junta’s Order
- Inter Press Service
Burma’s military regime is facing a formidable challenge from ethnic rebel groups that are refusing to kowtow to its order that they join the South-east Asian country’s army as border guard forces.
BALKANS: Freedom Fighters or Freeloaders?
- Inter Press Service
When one of Croatia’s best kept secrets, the list of independence fighters enjoying lifelong benefits, appeared on the Internet earlier this month it sparked off a huge scandal in this nation that became a sovereign state after the bloody 1991-95 war with Serbia.
New Software Could Outwit Tehran's Censors
- Inter Press Service
While the Iranian government has intensified its aggressive efforts to expand Internet filters, Austin Heap, a young programmer in the U.S., says he has developed software that would enable Iranians to evade their censors.
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