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COMMUNICATION-ARGENTINA: Student Radio Station Enhances Learning
Some 60 schoolchildren in the city of RÃo Grande, in Argentina's southernmost province of Tierra del Fuego, are learning and growing as they run their own radio station with a variety of programmes produced in their school.COMMUNICATION-LATAM: Women’s Supplements Go Beyond Beauty Tips
Supplements aimed at the female readers of newspapers in Latin America are no longer limited to beauty and fashion tips, recipes, advice on child-rearing and interior decorating, and horoscopes.COMMUNICATIONS-BRAZIL: Women Invade the Internet
The number of Internet portals targeting women is multiplying rapidly in Brazil, further proof that, in the end, women will dominate the nation's global computer network market, to the detriment of television.COMMUNICATION-MEXICO: Gov’t News Agency Opts against Selling Ads
The Mexican government repealed the official news agency's new role in selling advertising, a decision that deactivated local protests and calmed the concerns of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA).COMMUNICATION-BRAZIL: Community Radios Fight for Legal Status
Thousands of community radio stations in Brazil are fighting commercial stations and government agencies in a "guerrilla" war for radiowaves and audience share.MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Private TV Channels Queue Up for Green Signal
The entry of private TV channels in Pakistan will help to free up the flow of information which has otherwise been out of the public domain, media experts and senior journalists are hoping.MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Free Press Vulnerable Till Democracy Takes Root
Pakistan's free press is continuing to take its role as a watchdog very seriously, although journalists realise the military-led government offers no protection from political persecution.MEDIA-GULF: Press Freedom in Iran Travels Across the Gulf
As Iran's liberal press moves to maintain the momentum of the victory of pro-reform candidates in last week's parliamentary elections, journalists in the neighbourhood are looking for lessons.COMMUNICATIONS-CARIBBEAN: Privy Council to Rule on Telecom Monopoly
A standoff between several Caribbean governments and one of the world's leading telecommunications companies over monopolistic practices appears close to a legal resolution.LABOUR: Information Society Transforms Media, Entertainment
The changes in the media and entertainment industries arising from today's new technologies are irreversible, and have had a major impact on jobs and working conditions, says a new study by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).RIGHTS-CHILE: Another Blow to Freedom of Speech
The conviction of a reporter for libel against a former Supreme Court chief justice demonstrated that Chile remains one of the countries in Latin America with the greatest restrictions on freedom of speech.COMMUNICATIONS-JAMAICA: Monopoly Telecom Firm Fights to Defend its Turf
Despite considerable resistance from the political opposition and independent telecommunications providers here, the government has used its majority in parliament to push through a controversial new telecommunications law, which detractors say will slow the country's march into the electronic age.MEDIA-SRI LANKA: Rural Folks Log-On Via Community Radio
Villagers in this picturesque mountain region of Sri Lanka, 150 kms from Colombo, are logging on to the Internet via their local community radio station.ECONOMY-MEXICO: Telecoms Growing by Leaps and Bounds
Although many Mexicans lack access to or even understanding of telephone and voice and data transmission services, major progress has been made in that area, which is the site of a fierce battle between transnational corporations.COMMUNICATION-MEXICO: Major Competition for Piece of Internet Pie
Powerful corporations are caught up in an aggressive competition for the Internet market in Mexico, where the number of people using the global computer network has swelled from 300,000 to 2.5 million in just five years.//UPDATED REPEAT//COMMUNICATION-BRAZIL: Mobile Phone Use Jumps 10- Fold in 5 Years
Brazilians will have 35 to 40 million mobile telephones in their hands by the end of 2002, ten times the number existing when privatisation of the service began in 1997, predicts Communications Minister, Joao Pimenta da Veiga.COMMUNICATION-BRAZIL: Mobile Phone Use Jumps 10-Fold in 5 Years
Brazilians will have 35 to 40 million mobile telephones in their hands by the end of 2002, ten times the number existing when privatisation of the service began in 1997, predicts Communications Minister, Joao Pimenta da Veiga.COMMUNICATION: In Phone Rates War, AT&T Severs Service to Guyana
When a relative telephoned Frankie Joseph to tell him that his sister in New York had been trying to call him for most of New Year's Day, he - like many Guyanese - had no idea that links between the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) and American giant AT&T had been severed.RIGHTS-COMMUNICATION: Two Billion People Lack Press Freedoms
There are approximately two billion people around the world living in some 20 countries where governments do not grant freedoms of the press, said Fernando Castelló, president of Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSFJournalists without Borders), a hundred-year-old organisation based in Paris.//REPEATING//COMMUNICATION-GUYANA: Proposed Legislation to End Free TV Ride
It's Saturday night and discos, cinemas and restaurants are practically empty because nearly everyone is at home waiting for the upcoming Mike Tyson fight.COMMUNICATION-GUYANA: Proposed Legislation to End Free TV Ride
It's Saturday night and discos, cinemas and restaurants are practically empty because nearly everyone is at home waiting for the upcoming Mike Tyson fight.« Previous Page — Next Page »
Thousands of microfinance institutions serve tens of millions of the world's poor, through massive operations in rural South Asia to fledgling enterprises in West African towns. This small-scale loan movement aimed at alleviating poverty can offer life-changing potential for people who would otherwise find it difficult to obtain loans from the traditional banking sector. But microcredit is not a miracle solution to ending global poverty. If high interest rates prevail, putting recipients at risk of repeat borrowing and cycles of debt, microfinance can also have unintended consequences. IPS tracks the spread of microcredit and its impact across the global South.
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