News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 88
PAKISTAN: Singing Against the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
'In the last few years, I have sung more than a dozen songs against the Taliban,' award-wining singer Khyal Muhammad tells IPS. 'I got threatening messages on the mobile phone. But I will continue to sing because it gives me strength.'
U.S.: Who is the 99 Percent? - Part 1
- Inter Press Service
Barely a month after the first group of protesters set up its encampment in Zucotti Park in New York City, the phrase 'We are the 99 percent' has already become legendary.
LATIN AMERICA: Public Media Expanding
- Inter Press Service
The public media are growing in Latin America, with a few focus that puts an emphasis on independence from the state and the backlash from the private media, said journalists, academics and officials meeting in the Paraguayan capital.
FILM: Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes
- Inter Press Service
In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain.
Q&A: U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews DR. ABDULLA BIN ALI AL-THANI, chair of the Doha summit
- Inter Press Service
As digital technology begins to spread across classrooms the world over, the United Nations says the next generation of children will be educated far differently from their counterparts in the past.
PHILIPPINES: Prisoners Find Their E-Families
- Inter Press Service
For the first time since giving birth in prison 13 years ago, Sarah, an inmate in the Philippines’ largest detention centre for female convicts, saw her daughter via Skype video chat in her prison cell.
INDIA: Kashmir’s Media Miracle Feeds on Conflict
- Inter Press Service
'If one were to search for a positive outcome to the ongoing armed conflict in Jammu and Kashmir state, it would be the growth of journalism,' says Prof. Shams Imran at the department of journalism, Central University of Kashmir.
Chinese Film Festival Forced Underground
- Inter Press Service
A Chinese independent film festival showcasing the work of some of the most daring Mainland directors has been forced underground following a police visit to the event’s launch last Saturday.
Young Gather to Show Their Power
- Inter Press Service
With young people spearheading the revolutionary movements in the Middle East and other regions, the seventh Youth Forum taking place here this week has particular relevance, participants say.
RIGHTS-JAPAN: Lifer’s Case Tells Migrant Workers' Plight
- Inter Press Service
A Nepalese worker serving life for a murder he denies committing has become the rallying point for activists lobbying for the rights of migrant labour.
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