News headlines for “Racism”, page 65
MALAWI: Street Vendors Lose Customers after Stripping Women Naked
- Inter Press Service
A campaign to stop people buying merchandise from street vendors is gaining momentum in Malawi’s main cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre and Mzuzu after the small-scale traders went on a rampage undressing women and girls wearing trousers, leggings, shorts and mini-skirts.
CHINA: Dragon Drags the World In
- Inter Press Service
Chinese fengshui masters have been busy advising edgy followers how to optimise their luck in the auspicious but volatile Year of the Dragon, which according to the lunar calendar begins on Jan.23. In the West though, Chinese superstitions about the precarious nature of Dragon years don’t hold court, and 2012 will arguably mark the largest by far Chinese New Year celebrations in many world capitals and major cities.
Mayans Demand Voice in 'Doomsday Tourism' Boom
- Inter Press Service
The indigenous people of southeast Mexico are demanding to be included in the official programmes planned for 2012 to take advantage of the world's interest in the 'Mayan prophecy', while at the same time fearing a 'doomsday tourism' that could damage and contaminate their sacred sites.
THAILAND: Malay-Muslim Insurgency - Lessons Learnt
- Inter Press Service
Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists.
CHINA: Building a Cultural Front Against the West
- Inter Press Service
President Hu Jintao of China made headlines in the early days of the new year saying China and the West were engaged in an escalating culture war, and calling on Chinese people to strengthen cultural production to defend themselves against the assault.
GUATEMALA: For the Maya, the World Isn't Ending — the Environment Is
- Inter Press Service
The end of the Maya long-count calendar does not predict a global catastrophe, let alone the end of the world, say native activists and elders who spoke to IPS in Guatemala. But what are coming to an end are the world's natural resources, as a result of human activity, they warn.
CAMEROON: Stepping Naturally Away from Plastic
- Inter Press Service
Maya Stella, a restaurant manager in the capital of Cameroon, no longer uses plastic to wrap the corn-fufu that she sells to her customers. She now uses banana or plantain leaves instead, because these are 'natural and it is our African culture to use leaves in wrapping food.'
BANGLADESH: Farmers Bet on Climate-Proof Crops
- Inter Press Service
With floods, droughts and other calamities battering deltaic Bangladesh regularly, farmers need little prompting in switching to climate-resistant varieties of rice, wheat, pulses and other staples.
CUBA: Pope to Visit a Country in Flux
- Inter Press Service
On his upcoming visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict XVI will find a country immersed in dramatic changes, as it 'modernises' its socialist system and continues to open up to religion, marking a difference from the society found by John Paul II when he visited almost 14 years ago.
AFGHANISTAN: Killing Heroin With Saffron
- Inter Press Service
Weaning Afghanistan’s poppy farmers away from growing the raw material for the bulk of the world’s illicit heroin has never been easy, but Kashmir’s saffron cultivators may have the answer.
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