News headlines for “Racism”, page 124
MEDIA-THAILAND: Police Target Websites Unflattering to Royalty
- Inter Press Service
As if the country’s draconian lese-majeste laws are not harsh enough, Thailand’s thought police have another weapon, the computer crimes law, to curtail the space for free expression.
ECONOMY-CHINA: Human Rights Critics Silenced by Meltdown
- Inter Press Service
If the global economic downturn is a crisis with a silver lining for cash-rich Chinese companies intent on bargain deals, it is equally so the image-conscious government whose human right critics have been silenced by the need to cooperate with Beijing on overcoming the recession.
RIGHTS-INDIA: Moves to Scrap Hated Security Laws in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
As political parties in Indian Kashmir debate the repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the insurgency-hit state, civil rights activists hope that this will fructify into a withdrawal of the sweeping powers given to armed forces in this state since 1990.
ENERGY: Costa Rica Invests in Geothermal Power
- Inter Press Service
The government of Costa Rica hopes to increase its power generation by tapping into volcanic hot spots, and to that end it has introduced a controversial bill in Congress that would allow drilling into volcanoes in national parks.
POLITICS-MALAYSIA: Democracy Under a Tree
- Inter Press Service
It has already been dubbed 'Pokok Demokrasi' or Democracy Tree and is set to enter the annals of folklore in Ipoh, capital city of Perak state.
ASIA PACIFIC: Know Your Indonesia - Australians Urged
- Inter Press Service
One is cohesive, has a relatively small population and has been democratic since its foundation; the other is fragmented, is one of the world’s most-populous nations and only emerged from years of authoritarian rule a decade ago.
RIGHTS-PERU: 'No Thanks' to Donation for Memorial Museum
- Inter Press Service
Heduardo, one of the most scathing caricaturists in the Peruvian press, published a cartoon showing President Alan García more interested in a 'museum of amnesia' than a proposed 'museum of memory.'
SOUTH ASIA: Terrorists Aim for Destabilisation, Media Attention
- Inter Press Service
South Asia seems to be caught in a vortex of violence as the countries that form this region - from Sri Lanka at the southern-most tip, Bangladesh to the east, Nepal crowning the north, Pakistan along the west and India in the middle - deal with internal nightmares that their governments routinely blame on neighbours.
BULGARIA: Environment Going Down a Slippery Slope
- Inter Press Service
The World Ski Cup for women last weekend was organised in Bulgaria at a ski resort whose development is partially illegal, and which is damaging a world heritage site.
INDIA/PAKISTAN: Trade, Travel Across Divided Kashmir Stalled
- Inter Press Service
Trade and travel between the Indian and Pakistan parts of Kashmir, as part of confidence building measures (CBMs) between the two rival countries, appear to have become a casualty of the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on the port city of Mumbai.
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