News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 82
UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
- Inter Press Service
Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
Q&A: 'Women Will Benefit From Secularism'
- Inter Press Service
Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
U.S.: Public More Complacent About Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
Less than two months before a key international conference on curbing climate change, a major U.S. poll has found a sharp drop in public concern about global warming.
PORTUGAL: Bible Is 'A Catalogue of Cruelties,' Says Saramago
- Inter Press Service
After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as 'a manual of bad morals,' and a 'catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature.'
CULTURE-TAIWAN: Film Lets Audiences Revisit Overlooked Past
- Inter Press Service
An overlooked piece of Taiwan’s cultural history is slowly making its way back into people’s hearts and minds with the documentary ‘E Sha Age’, due to be shown this week.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Tech Sector Urged to Lead Green Economy
- Inter Press Service
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the information and communications technology (ICT) community to help seal the deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
GERMANY: Rebuilding Controversially Over a Disputed Past
- Inter Press Service
Reconstruction of some of Berlin's historic buildings that were damaged during World War II or by the Communist regime that earlier ruled East Germany, is raising troubling questions about Germany's past, and its future.
Q&A: The Desire To Be An Outsider
- Inter Press Service
'The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation.' - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger
DEVELOPMENT: Rural India Set to Ring in 3G Mobile Technology
- Inter Press Service
As India prepares to roll out third-generation (3G) mobile services in the world's fastest growing telecom market, there are high expectations that it will benefit people in the vast, impoverished rural hinterland most.
U.S.: Public Sceptical and Hawkish on Iran
- Inter Press Service
Despite strong support for diplomatic engagement with Iran, most U.S. citizens believe such efforts will ultimately fail and that Washington should be prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to a new poll released here Tuesday by the Pew Research Centre for the People and the Press.
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