News headlines for “Racism”, page 107
CHINA: Cultural Counteroffensive at Int’l Book Fair: Hit or Miss?
- Inter Press Service
This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair may have been more of an embarrassment than prestige for its guest of honour — China — but the country’s cultural mandarins still believe that the future of cultural ideas belongs to the Middle Kingdom and that the global financial crisis will play a role in helping them achieve that.
UGANDA: Rebuilding Home and Hearth
- Inter Press Service
Dusk gathers in the thickets of Palemy village, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Men, women, and children follow foot paths through the dark to the residence of Mzee Otto Yuvani.
Q&A: 'Women Will Benefit From Secularism'
- Inter Press Service
Controversy stalks dissident writer Nawal El-Saadawi, whose views on women and religion have put her at odds with Egyptian conservatives.
PORTUGAL: Bible Is 'A Catalogue of Cruelties,' Says Saramago
- Inter Press Service
After a nearly two-decade truce, Portuguese Nobel literature laureate José Saramago has returned to the charge against the Catholic Church. This time his target is the Bible itself, which he describes as 'a manual of bad morals,' and a 'catalogue of cruelties and of the worst of human nature.'
CULTURE-TAIWAN: Film Lets Audiences Revisit Overlooked Past
- Inter Press Service
An overlooked piece of Taiwan’s cultural history is slowly making its way back into people’s hearts and minds with the documentary ‘E Sha Age’, due to be shown this week.
GERMANY: Rebuilding Controversially Over a Disputed Past
- Inter Press Service
Reconstruction of some of Berlin's historic buildings that were damaged during World War II or by the Communist regime that earlier ruled East Germany, is raising troubling questions about Germany's past, and its future.
Q&A: The Desire To Be An Outsider
- Inter Press Service
'The old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh... And the same thing is happening to my generation.' - Dambudzo Marechera, House of Hunger
MEDIA: South-South Radio from Caracas to Africa
- Inter Press Service
Poverty, attacks on human rights and corporate fraud will be among the main news coverage focuses of a new regional public radio network, Radio del Sur, which will link stations from South America and Africa.
CUBA: Restoring Historic Santiago for Its People
- Inter Press Service
Even with her house practically in ruins, Isabel García wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else. She’d rather stay where she knows that no matter what corner she turns she’ll always be able to gaze out into the blue sea or raise her eyes up to the green mountains that shelter her beloved city of Santiago, in eastern Cuba.
PAKISTAN: Repeal of Blasphemy Laws Still a Pipe Dream
- Inter Press Service
It is a never-ending saga.
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