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AFRICA: ‘WELCOME TO MY TAXI – LET’S DO BUSINESS ON MY CELL PHONE’
JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, says Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
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CHINA: AS WEALTH GROWS SO DOES APPETITE FOR SHARK FIN SOUP
BEIJING, Sep. 3, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Campaigns featuring some of China’s biggest celebrities, including basketball star Yao Ming and actor Jackie Chan, have persuaded some Chinese to think twice about eating shark fin soup. But changing attitudes about the centuries-old delicacy, a large contributor to decimated shark populations, continues to be a challenge.
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PHILIPPINES: MEDIA TAKE A HIT IN HOSTAGE CRISIS
MANILA, Aug. 28, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - In the wake of the bungled hostage-rescue operation that left eight Hong Kong tourists and the gunman dead, the Philippine media are finding themselves a target of anger by many who say that sensationalism and no-holds-barred coverage added to the bloody end to a crisis they call an international embarrassment.
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CULTURE-CHINA: NOW SHOWING – INDEPENDENT FILMS
BEIJING, Aug. 27, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - While Hollywood blockbusters and state-funded historical epics continue to dominate China’s box office, a vibrant independent film scene is quietly growing.
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AFGHANISTAN: NOT MUCH GOOD NEWS FOR THE MEDIA
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sep. 1, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Good news has become harder to come by these days in Afghanistan, especially as the war-ravaged country gears up for the parliamentary election scheduled on Sept. 18.
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U.S.: PETRAEUS STORY OF LOW TALIBAN MORALE IS CHALLENGED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - In an effort to introduce a story of "progress" into media coverage, Gen. David Petraeus’s command claimed last week that the Taliban is suffering from reduced morale in Marjah and elsewhere, despite evidence that the population of Marjah still believes the Taliban controls that district.
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U.N.: EMBATTLED U.N. CHIEF ON CHARM OFFENSIVE, SAYS PRESS CORPS
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - When an Asian ambassador hosted a sumptuous lunch for more than a dozen U.N. correspondents in his swanky New York apartment many moons ago, he confessed he had a hidden agenda.
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INDIA: KASHMIRI YOUNGSTERS WAGE ONLINE STRUGGLE
SRINAGAR, India, Aug. 31, 2010 (IPS/GIN) - Rasik Rasheed’s (not his real name) hefty Internet bills hardly bother his family. Cooped up at home due to curfews and strikes here for nearly three months now, youngsters like him have been busy not just with their studies but with waging what they call the Kashmir struggle on the Internet.
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