News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 84
BURMA: Political Prisoners Freed - Conditionally
- Inter Press Service
The release of 651 prisoners, a process which started this month, is being seen as a victory for activists and families who have had to contend with Burma’s notorious prison system.
THAILAND: Malay-Muslim Insurgency - Lessons Learnt
- Inter Press Service
Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists.
CHINA: Building a Cultural Front Against the West
- Inter Press Service
President Hu Jintao of China made headlines in the early days of the new year saying China and the West were engaged in an escalating culture war, and calling on Chinese people to strengthen cultural production to defend themselves against the assault.
GUATEMALA: For the Maya, the World Isn't Ending — the Environment Is
- Inter Press Service
The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world's natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn.
IRAN: Elections Playbook Starts With Crackdown on Critics
- Inter Press Service
Less than two months before Iran's parliamentary elections, as much of the opposition mounts a boycott of the polls, a new wave of arrests and lengthy prison sentences for political activists and journalists appears to herald a renewed crackdown in the Iranian capital.
CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
- Inter Press Service
Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. She now uses banana or plantain leaves instead, because these are 'natural and it is our African culture to use leaves in wrapping food.'
BANGLADESH: Farmers Bet on Climate-Proof Crops
- Inter Press Service
With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant varieties of rice, wheat, pulses and other staples.
U.S.: 'Arab Spring' Dominated TV Foreign News in 2011
- Inter Press Service
The so-called 'Arab Spring' led U.S. network television evening news coverage during 2011, comprising a total of about 10 percent of all the news coverage provided by the three major commercial networks during 2011, according to the latest annual review by the authoritative Tyndall Report.
CUBA: Pope to Visit a Country in Flux
- Inter Press Service
On his upcoming visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI will find a country immersed in dramatic changes, as it 'modernises' its socialist system and continues to open up to religion, marking a difference from the society found by John Paul II when he visited almost 14 years ago.
AFGHANISTAN: Killing Heroin With Saffron
- Inter Press Service
Weaning Afghanistan’s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of the world’s illicit heroin has never been easy, but Kashmir’s saffron cultivators may have the answer.
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