News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 78
MIDEAST: Settlers Aim a Kick at Football
- Inter Press Service

Without an efficient bureaucracy, occupation of the land of another people cannot be sustained. This is all the more true of Israel's 42-year occupation of Palestinian lands.
PHILIPPINES: Will Blood-soaked Election Change Maguindanao? — Part 2
- Inter Press Service

'Young and old, whether you’re against them (the Ampatuans) or not, were (forcibly) taken from their homes and brought to a place somewhere in Maguindanao, where they were tortured and later killed,' recounted a resident of Cotabato City—a major city bordering Maguindanao in southern Philippines— who declined to be named out of fear for his life.
PHILIPPINES: Maguindanao Massacre Has Some Familiar Roots — Part 1
- Inter Press Service

In an instant the Philippines emerged as the world’s most dangerous place for journalists, effectively displacing Iraq, which, until the massacre in an impoverished town in southern Philippines, held that dubious distinction.
PAKISTAN: Faithful Celebrate Eid Amid Fear, Use Online Services
- Inter Press Service

For Waqas Ahmed, 9, the sight of half a dozen gun-totting policemen—perched on the rooftop of the mosque in his neighbourhood—was very disturbing, to say the least. He had been used to seeing a security guard frisking the faithful during Friday prayers. But what he saw this time on his way to the mosque to say his Eid ul
JAPAN: Aging Population Needs More than Short-Term Solutions
- Inter Press Service

Sachiko Yamada has been hoping to spend her retirement years traveling and living the good life. Today she devotes her time to taking care of her 90-year- old mother five days a week, leaving her with two days off while her mother goes to a care centre for the elderly.
WORLD AIDS DAY: Herdboys at Risk to Contract HIV
- Inter Press Service

In the scorching heat of the midday summer sun, a teenage boy’s sharp voice can be heard vividly as he continuously summons his cattle. Glad in his shabby-looking rag that used to be a blanket and black gumboots, the only thing that occupies his mind is his herd, his everyday companions, nothing else.
INDIA: Towards an AIDS-Free Society, But at What Price?
- Inter Press Service

As the global community observes World AIDS Day today, India is caught in a rancorous debate about a government scheme which mandates that all pregnant women in the country be tested for HIV so that its 1.2 billion people can have 'an AIDS-free generation'.
MEDIA-LATIN AMERICA: Women Deserve Better Press
- Inter Press Service

'The press will change when they cease to report exclusively from a masculine point of view,' Peru's deputy Minister for Women, Norma Añaños, told participants at an international seminar for journalists on 'Women at Work, Women as Leaders', held in the Peruvian capital.
ASIA: Artists Join Forces to Make a Difference in Mekong
- Inter Press Service

Nouv Srey Leab, 24, could not quite contain her excitement about the chance to participate in the just concluded regional arts and media festival held in this capital, believing it was one welcome occasion meet fellow artists from other countries in the Mekong sub-region.
ROMANIA: Business Crowds Out Bucharest Life
- Inter Press Service

Competing with the destruction caused by former Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s ‘systematisation’ plans might be hard. But an official report says that 'the aggression on Bucharest’s architectural heritage, documented since 1989, exceeds Ceausescu’s acts.’’

