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MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Journalists Challenge Gov’t Controls
The Pakistani government appears to be pulling back from a confrontation with the Jang Group, publishers of the country's largest selling newspaper, but a journalist union has said it will pursue its legal case for press freedom.INDIA: Unseemly Rush To Accommodate Predatory Media Barons
A rush to allow direct-to-home (DTH) satellite-TV broadcasting has earned the right-wing, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government charges of bending over backwards to accommodate predatory media barons like Rupert Murdoch.MEDIA-PAKISTAN: Newspaper Giant Locked In Battle With Gov’t
Pakistan's largest group of newspapers, Jang, is embroiled in a very public fight with the Nawaz Sharif government, which could lead to the closure of the 51-year-old Group and spell the end of press freedom.MEDIA-INDIA: Press Barons Hound Media Watchdog
An institution created by Parliament to safeguard the freedom of India's vibrant print media has, ironically enough, come under vicious attack by powerful press barons.MEDIA-BANGLADESH: Women Make Inroads But Biases Stay
There are more women in newspaper offices across Bangladesh than ever before, but old prejudices about the unsuitability of the job for women persist to ensure the print media is still the domain of men.SRI LANKA: Tougher Laws Proposed for Bolstering Moral Values
Sri Lankan authorities are canvassing public support for fresh legislation to protect moral values, but independent experts say there are enough laws in the country except they are not implemented properly.TECHNOLOGY-JAMAICA: Catching Up With Cyberspace
Even as developed countries continue to soar into Cyberspace, technology experts here are worried that the majority of the Jamaican population will be left behind.MEDIA-YUGOSLAVIA: Kosovo Combatants Fight New War – In Cyberspace
Serbs and ethnic Albanians fighting it out in the shattered villages of Kosovo are taking their war onto a different plane, via modem, into cyberspace.MEDIA-INDIA: Catholic Church Pays Attention to Media Power
Teachers and members of the Catholic church, sit around a room here in coastal India, grappling with a reality they were hardly aware of earlier -- the influence and clout of the media today.MEDIA-SRI LANKA: No News From the Warfront
Sri Lanka's President Chandrika Kumaratunga swept to power in elections in 1994 promising an early end to the bitter ethnic conflict that has divided the island.« Previous 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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