News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 95
PAKISTAN: An Unexpected Tribute to MJ
- Inter Press Service
In this South Asian nation, people fondly remember a pop-singer who stole many hearts
CULTURE-MEXICO: 'New Seven Wonders' Win Falls Flat
- Inter Press Service
The Mexican government spent time and money in 2007 to get the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza declared one of the 'new seven wonders of the world' in a contest organised by a Swiss-Canadian businessman. But winning has failed to deliver the desired results.
SOUTHEAST ASIA: Regional Rights Body Dismissed as 'Toothless'
- Inter Press Service
Southeast Asia is weeks away from getting its own regional human rights body, but not everyone is cheering the birth of this new mechanism due to be approved at a foreign ministers’ meeting here. Least of all the region’s vibrant human rights community, spread across the 10 countries that belong to the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN).
TRADE-MAURITIUS: Paradise Island, Pirates’ Den
- Inter Press Service
Pirated goods - from music and vehicle parts to clothes, perfumes and software - are sold at ridiculously low prices on the streets or in local shops. This is big business in the paradise-like island state Mauritius.
GUATEMALA: Journalists in Jeopardy
- Inter Press Service
Veteran television reporter Rolando Santiz was on his way to downtown Guatemala City on Apr. 1 when two gunmen on a motorcycle drove up alongside his car and killed him in a rain of gunfire. The photographer driving with him was wounded but miraculously survived.
MALAYSIA: Blacklisted For Not Enforcing Trafficking Laws
- Inter Press Service
After years of lobbying by rights activists and the international community, Malaysia passed an effective and comprehensive law in 2007 against human trafficking with provisions for protection, shelter and return of trafficked person to their home countries.
RELIGION-CUBA: Women in the Pulpit
- Inter Press Service
Izet Samá has no regrets about her decision to devote every waking hour to her mission as pastor of the Presbyterian-Reformed Church, guiding a small congregation in the Cuban province of Havana.
PARAGUAY: University Opens Doors to Native Students
- Inter Press Service
Video camera in hand, Isidro Romero is getting ready for another day of classes in the Paraguayan capital. He is studying Communications as part of a programme aimed at breaking down the barriers that have blocked access to university level studies by the country’s small indigenous minority.
POLITICS-INDIA: Hindu Fundamentalism in Retreat
- Inter Press Service
As the leaders of the pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blame each other for the massive debacle that the party suffered in the April/May elections it is clear that its fundamentalist agenda has few takers in a rapidly modernising India.
CHILE: Festival to Showcase Films on Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
Thanks to the growing number of films by and about indigenous peoples, over 90 movies, mainly from Latin America, will be screened and voted on by spectators at the First Chilean Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival in the Pacific port city of Valparaíso.
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