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| MUSIC-BRAZIL: 'Enchanted' Guitars for Social Change RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 8 (IPS) - Perfectly in tune, in spite of the off-key world of Terra Encantada ("Enchanted Land"), a shanty town in this Brazilian city, the guitars of Daniel Sant'Anna's orchestra strike up the "Ode to Joy", played by children and teenagers who are looking for a way forward in their lives. |
| BRAZIL: Carnival, a Complex Annual Revolution for Women, Gays RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb 18 (IPS) - Fátima Oliveira, one of Brazil's few black women doctors, always goes to "the best carnival," in Sabará, a city of 130,000 people in the state of Minas Gerais, where "men dress up as women" at a celebration that is "very informal, very local, with few tourists." |
| VIETNAM: War Movie with Peace Theme Seeks to Heal Wounds HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Mar 5 (IPS) - A Vietnamese film that is vying for an Oscar this month offers a glimpse into how Vietnam and the United States are healing decades-old war wounds, as well as how that war still generates emotional debate today. |
| FILM: Saving Lives Amid the Chaos of War NEW YORK, Jan 6 (IPS) - The documentary "Living in Emergency" is as graphic as it is gripping, following doctors working in humanitarian crises as they face death, disease and despair in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
| Q&A : ‘Cartoons Are My Way of Protesting against Burmese Junta’ CHIANG MAI, Thailand, Dec 15 (IPS) - He talks with his hands. They are in constant motion as he expresses a view, makes a joke, mumbles. |