News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 86
BOOK-BURMA: On the New Road to Mandalay
- Inter Press Service
Condemned for decades as an international pariah, Burma is enjoying a diplomatic spring with droves of former critics heading towards the Southeast Asian nation.
NEPAL: Praying Against Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
There are gasps from the audience as a series of shocking images flash across the screen: human hands eaten away by arsenic, the carcass of a cow so emaciated that it looks two-dimensional, a starved child with matchstick legs grasping at the udder of an animal for sustenance.
Opening Virtual Doors for People with Disabilities
- Inter Press Service
As the International Day for Persons with Disabilities approaches this Saturday, one institution is working to remove some of the barriers that prevent disabled people from taking a leading role in policies that affect their lives.
PHILIPPINES: These Shots Target AIDS
- Inter Press Service
A unique campaign in the Philippines is using stylised online photos to raise awareness on HIV/AIDS. Fashion and conceptual photographer Niccolo Cosme first initiated Project Headshot Clinic in 2007 as a way of merging profile photos online and advertising.
TAJIKISTAN: President Taking a Press Beating in Dushanbe
- Inter Press Service
Following a diplomatic faux pas that enraged Russia, the knives seem to be out for Tajikistan's long-time president, Imomali Rahmon.
COLOMBIA: Worse than Fiction
- Inter Press Service
A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in a new Colombian film, Silence in Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the 'false positives' — the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
CUBA: Violence against Women Out of the Closet
- Inter Press Service
The story of Saúl, a violent husband, and Odalys, an abused wife, has been on Cuban TV screens for several weeks now, bringing the touchy and often silenced issue of violence against women into millions of homes. It may cause shock or repulsion, but few can escape the controversy or discussion.
The Screen Speaks for Suu Kyi
- Inter Press Service
Twenty years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year after being released from house arrest, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the subject of a sweeping film that may increase international pressure on Burma’s ruling regime to speed up tentative reforms.
PAKISTAN: At the Butt of a Joke
- Inter Press Service
The Butts of Punjab have become the butt of jokes after Pakistan’s telecom authorities moved to ban 'obscene' content on short messaging service (SMS) texts over mobile phones.
PAKISTAN: Beating the Taliban on the Playing Fields
- Inter Press Service
An outbreak of sports fever has gripped the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Northern Pakistan, as increasing numbers of civilians and government officials latch on to team sports as their only armour against creeping militancy in the border region.
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