News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 61
ENVIRONMENT: A Different Kind of Green
- Inter Press Service
The colour green has long been associated with Islam, but if some recent Muslim visitors here could have their way, it’s a link that could intensify some more in the future.
CHINA: Thirty Years On, Debate Emerges Over One-child Policy
- Inter Press Service
Adapt at navigating through politically sensitive anniversaries, the Chinese government has one more socially volatile date marked in its calendar: this year’s 30th anniversary of its one-child policy.
ECONOMY: Get the Cab From Shanghai to London
- Inter Press Service
The black, curvy London cab is so much more than a just taxi. It is an icon without which the picture of London can never be complete.
THAILAND: Uncertainty Hovers Over New Year Revelry
- Inter Press Service
Very few things — not even the political gridlock that erupted into violence a few days ago — can prevent Thais from celebrating the traditional New Year, marked by drenching one another with water. But this year’s festivities were more muted than usual amid the uncertainty around the anti-government protests, which have lasted for more than a month now.
SRI LANKA: Once Under Attack, Jaffna Media Get Reprieve
- Inter Press Service
About eight months back, delivery boys for this northern city’s main newspaper were accompanied on their rounds by government soldiers — the first time a Sri Lankan broadsheet was being delivered under armed guard.
ARGENTINA: Fathers of the Plaza de Mayo - the 'Rearguard'
- Inter Press Service
Through their decades-long struggle to uncover the fate of their missing children, forcibly disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in Argentina, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in their emblematic white headscarves have earned international renown. Now a new documentary shines the spotlight on the men who supported and encouraged these brave women from the shadows: the fathers of the Plaza de Mayo.
CHINA: Women Want to Hold Up the Half the Sky — in Style
- Inter Press Service
— For decades, women have been 'holding up half the sky in China,' as the late Chairman Mao Zedong had exhorted them to do. But in recent years, a growing number of Chinese women want to do so with loads of charm and more than a hint of the social graces.
GUATEMALA: Bringing Murdered Activist Bishop Back to Life on the Screen
- Inter Press Service
On the evening of Apr. 26, 1998, as Bishop Juan Gerardi returned to the parish house at St. Sebastian's Church, three blocks from the seat of national government in the heart of the Guatemalan capital, he had no idea it would be the last day of his life. That night, his head was bludgeoned with a concrete block.
RIGHTS-AUSTRALIA: Africans Target of Racism, Harassment by Police
- Inter Press Service
The police 'picked me up, they put me in the back of the car. Then they took me to (locality withheld) and beat (expletive) me, and they left me there,' a young person of African background said in a new study into the treatment of youths of African background by Australian police in Melbourne.
THAILAND: Media Crackdown a Mistake, Say Analysts
- Inter Press Service
For press freedom advocates, it was bad enough, though not totally surprising, to hear that the government had shut down the opposition media amid the state of emergency in the Thai capital. But alarming to them is the gagging even of independent news sites.
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