News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 76
COLOMBIA: Chicha, Fashionable Survivor
- Inter Press Service
Chicha, a traditional homemade brew produced all the way from Mexico to Chile since the days of the Inca, has largely been a rural drink over the centuries. But it is enjoying a new popularity in bars and restaurants in Bogotá and other Colombian cities, as a hip alternative to mass-produced beer.
JAPAN: Careers On Hold For Most Women
- Inter Press Service
Tomoko Ando and her husband divorced because she refused to quit her job as a lawyer and start a family. The shortage of daycare centres has created a dilemma for women like Ando who want to continue working, but also start a family.
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission
- Inter Press Service
All day Rosalinda Duany sells vegetables from her stall at the local market, earning a living to feed her family while her husband spends his days idling with his friends.
DEVELOPMENT-THAILAND: Fish, Not Dams
- Inter Press Service
Seventy-one-year old Kham, a woman from Napho Klang, left home early in the morning of Dec. 14 to join a ritual to revitalise the Mekong River, which passes through this part of north-eastern Thailand.
BURMA: A Celebration of Life through the Arts under the Junta
- Inter Press Service
The Burmese military spares nothing with its iron grip on power — not even art.
CULTURE-TURKEY: Kurdish Directors Make 'National' Cinema
- Inter Press Service
A ban on the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party in Turkey has not deterred Kurdish filmmakers from all over the globe gathering in this southeastern city to continue their struggle for recognition through cultural means.
SIERRA LEONE: Woman Breaking Traditional Walls in Chieftaincy Elections
- Inter Press Service
A war is raging in the eastern part of the country, once the centre stage for battles during the 10-year civil war and the place where 'blood diamonds' where once mined.
MALAWI: Women Fight Harmful Cultural Practices
- Inter Press Service
An experience which Belita Simpokolwe went through in December last year remains deeply etched in her memory. 'Sometimes I fail to concentrate in class when these things come back to my mind,' laments 13-year-old Simpokolwe, a grade six pupil at Kawale Primary School, in the northern Malawi district of Chitipa.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Women Rally Together to Fight Injustice
- Inter Press Service
Rajbala, 40, learned in the cruelest way possible that poverty exacts an exorbitant price, especially if one is pursuing justice.
CULTURE: Foreign Cash Makes Afghan Films
- Inter Press Service
After the fall of the Taliban, the most widely recognised and praised Afghan film has been 'Osama'. Directed by Sediq Barmak, the 2003 production is the heartrending story of a young girl who disguises herself as a boy named Osama so that she might survive the Taliban regime. Osama received awards at both Cannes and the Golden Globes.
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