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Tuesday, February 07, 2012   09:29 GMT    
Arts & Entertainment

LAOS-CULTURE
ASEAN Attempts to Build on a Shared Language: Music
By Kalinga Seneviratne
VIENTIANE - A landmark concert featuring artistes from eight of the ten South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) took place here on Jan. 21, in an effort to build a regional community through the common language of music.
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VENEZUELA
Putting (Mothers') Faces to the Violence
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - These women are not fashion models, nor are they advertising any product, yet their images look down on passersby from giant black-and-white posters in the Venezuelan capital. There are 52 of them, and they are all mothers who have lost one or more children to the criminal violence that is plaguing the country.
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CUBA
Mural-Lined Street Transforms Neighbourhood
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Forget about finding Cantarrana on a map or travel guide to Cuba. "Nobody knew about us; we didn’t exist," said one resident of this working-class neighbourhood on the west side of Havana.
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COLOMBIA
Worse than Fiction
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTA - A teenage love story is the fictional plot device in a new Colombian film, Silence in Paradise, about the all-too-real phenomenon of the "false positives" – the euphemism used to describe army killings of young civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
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CUBA
Violence against Women Out of the Closet
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - The story of Saúl, a violent husband, and Odalys, an abused wife, has been on Cuban TV screens for several weeks now, bringing the touchy and often silenced issue of violence against women into millions of homes. It may cause shock or repulsion, but few can escape the controversy or discussion.
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The Screen Speaks for Suu Kyi
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - Twenty years after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and a year after being released from house arrest, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the subject of a sweeping film that may increase international pressure on Burma’s ruling regime to speed up tentative reforms.
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Afghan Theatre Group Lets War Victims Tell Their Stories
By Rosemary D'Amour
WASHINGTON - On a small stage, a woman appears, grief written on her face as she wanders through the streets of Kabul, searching for her missing child. Suddenly, she stops by a scene of ruins and stares.
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BALKANS
Who’s Afraid of Serbian Violins
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - The path of reconciliation in former Yugoslavia has taken a musical turn, as the philharmonic orchestras of Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade team up for their first joint season since 1991.
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PAKISTAN
Singing Against the Taliban
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - "In the last few years, I have sung more than a dozen songs against the Taliban," award-wining singer Khyal Muhammad tells IPS. "I got threatening messages on the mobile phone. But I will continue to sing because it gives me strength."
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FILM
Political Prisoners Are Burma's Unsung Heroes
By Christian Papesch
NEW YORK - In a move that highlighted its sub-par human rights record, the government of Burma announced Oct. 11 that it would release 6,359 prisoners, but how many of these will be drawn from the country's estimated 500 to over 2,000 political prisoners remains uncertain.
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