News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 93
EUROPE: Not the Language to Speak
- Inter Press Service
A controversial new law on foreign languages in Slovakia branded discriminatory and totalitarian by critics is fuelling tensions and destroying trust between Slovaks and ethnic Hungarians, political analysts have warned.
BALKANS: Media Could Be in the Dock Over War Crimes
- Inter Press Service
Journalists are in the dock now for their role in provoking the wars of the 1990s across former Yugoslavia that left more than 100,000 dead.
MEDIA-CHINA: News of Ethnic Strife Skirts Chinese Censors
- Inter Press Service
The story of ethnic strife engulfing China’s far-western province of Xinjiang may have been relegated to the inner pages of the country’s state-controlled newspapers, but it found space on the front pages of almost every other Chinese daily.
Q&A: 'My Boyfriend Insisted I Quit Dancing, My Answer was No'
- Inter Press Service
She has had to change her name, sever links with her family and boyfriend, and even move cities because of male stalkers in the Bahraini capital. But no 'sacrifice' is too much in the pursuit of her dream for Tufaha, just 24.
CHILE: Home Truths About the Dictator and His Family?
- Inter Press Service
'La Familia. Historia privada de los Pinochet' (The Family: Private History of the Pinochets), a book that delves into the personal life of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and his immediate family, has had a mixed reception in this country and in Ecuador, where a man claiming to be his illegitimate son may soon identify himself.
ARGENTINA: Women Writers Who Break the Mould
- Inter Press Service
An Argentine woman’s first novel, narrated by a character that eludes female literary stereotypes, has surprisingly met with some nasty sexist comments from spheres where such biases were previously unheard of, such as literary criticism and sophisticated readership.
PUERTO RICO: Pride in Sotomayor Rekindles Debate Over Status
- Inter Press Service
Sonia Sotomayor's nomination by President Barack Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court has turned her into a reason for national pride in Puerto Rico. But it has also added fresh fuel to the perpetual debate for self-determination of the people in the Caribbean island, which has been a commonwealth of the U.S. for over a hundred years.
HAITI: Deportees from U.S. Face Culture Shock, Retain Hope
- Inter Press Service
In the shadow of the Eglise Sainte Claire in the Petite Place Cazeau neighbourhood of Haiti’s bustling capital, Frantz Saintil is visiting his daughter and reflecting on the more than two decades he spent abroad before finding himself back in his native country of Haiti seven years ago.
PAKISTAN/INDIA: Citizens Push for Peace
- Inter Press Service
The months following last year's Mumbai terror attacks have seen a renewed sense of urgency among peace activists in Pakistan and India. Citizens are pushing their governments to resume the composite dialogue process between the two nuclear-rival nations.
IRAN: Censors Fail to Silence Resilient Cyber-Activists
- Inter Press Service
To mark the tenth anniversary of Iran's student uprising in 1999 amid the continued rejection by many voters of the results of the disputed Jun. 12 election, student activists issued a national call to protest last week.
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