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/ARTS WEEKLY/BOOKS: Indigenous Innovations Buttress Today’s ‘Knowledge Society’
In Ron Wakegijig's "office" is a cupboard whose many shelves are lined with rows of stacked, stout coffee cans, each containing a quantity of a healing plant./ARTS WEEKLY/ BOOKS-MEXICO: Library Rides the Rails
An anthology of nine authors is being made available this month to passengers on the Mexican capital's train lines, the first phase of a library programme that has the double purpose of fomenting the reading habit and curbing crime./ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-SINGAPORE: City State Covets Elusive Cultural Trophy
Nearly four years after the government set out to establish Singapore as a global arts centre, this prosperous island state of more than four million people is struggling to attain exalted cultural status./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM: Corporations Need Treatment, Documentary Argues
Corporations are not only the most powerful institutions in the world, they are also psychopathic, a new Canadian documentary on globalisation elegantly argues./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: Golden Year for South America’s ‘Bollywood’
Brazilian film enjoyed a honeymoon with audiences this year, consolidating its position as a sort of South American movie capital, with the Globo network as the centre of production for box office hits.RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Minorities Tell of Religious Persecution
A bomb blast outside a church in the port city of Karachi earlier this month has again highlighted violent religious persecution in this majority Muslim country.EDUCATION-ZAMBIA: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child?
Human rights activists in Zambia scored another victory recently when they got parliament to outlaw corporal punishment in the country.SPORTS-BRAZIL: Playing for a Living
''For me it was like being reborn. I owe everything I have to basketball,'' says 38-year-old Brazilian Cintia Girelli Ribeiro, who was left paraplegic by a car accident in 1987.CULTURE-NIGERIA: Should the Death Penalty be Put on Death Row?
Almost 10 years after the death of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, his father - Pa Beesam Wiwa - remains angry and sad.SOCIETY-THAILAND: Violence Threatens Record of Ethnic Harmony
The phrase 'race riots', which strikes a painful chord in some South-east Asian countries, has remained alien to the modern political vocabulary of Thailand - as alien as the idea of government-led assaults on the country's leading minorities.INDIA: Buoyant Right-wing Party Set to Call Polls in April
Buoyed by a booming economy, resounding victories in recent provincial elections and a diplomatic breakthrough with neighbouring Pakistan, the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is set to call early general elections in or around April.POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Complex Race Relations as New Year Dawns
A glance around the Jock and Saddle pub gives a telling glimpse of the uneasy path that Zimbabweans are treading towards racial integration.PAKISTAN: Conversions, Modernity Change Lives of Small Community
Mir Swat Khan, who fought alongside the Taliban after the U.S.-led attacks against Afghanistan in November 2001, is waiting to be freed by Pakistani authorities from Central Jail here.THAILAND: Violence Forces Gov’t to Deal with Muslim Minority
A burst of violence in Thailand's southern region since Sunday has forced into the open the simmering question about Bangkok's relationship with the country's Muslim minority.MEDIA-U.S.: Iraq Blotted Out Rest of the World in 2003 TV News
AIDS killed three million people around the world last year, more than two million of them in Africa. The three major U.S. television networks' evening news programmes devoted a combined total of 39 minutes to the issue.POLITICS-ASIA: It’s Testing Time for Islam, Democracy in 2004
If U.S. President George W Bush were to look east from his colonial enterprise in Iraq, he may find lessons to draw from the spirit of democracy due to take hold in the Islamic world this new year./ARTS WEEKLY/VIETNAM: Revival of Ancient Music Too Successful
Efforts to revive the 'nha nhac', court music that harks back to the country's ancient past, have been successful - perhaps too successful./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Rappers’ Scrap Gives Reggae Another Black Eye
Another violent incident at one of Jamaica's best known annual dancehall shows has again shone a spotlight on what many critics consider a musical style that celebrates violence./ARTS WEEKLY/ARGENTINA: Doctors Band Provides Remedy for Hearts and Souls
The popular conception that music is therapeutic is especially true in the case of the Argentine rock band Diga 33.UAE: Asian Workers Shape Society, but Labour Market Changing
When the United Arab Emirates was formed in 1971 by patching together seven independent ''provinces'', the country was not much more than a desert land.U.S.: Military More Republican, Conservative Than Public – Poll
About two-thirds of the active-duty U.S. military approve of President George W. Bush's overall performance, while the same percentage of officers consider themselves Republicans, according to an unprecedented poll released here Tuesday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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