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China: Government shuts down BitTorrent sites, netizens distressed

George Sun · 03:37, December 11th, 2009 · East Asia

Chinese Internet users are scrabbling for downloads from BitTorrent (BT) websites following speculation that authorities will completely shut them down. The largest BitTorrent websites in China like BTCHINA, VeryCD and the Garden of Eden have been closed down or ordered to delete all links to downloaded films or TV series in the past ... 1 comment · read »

Philippines: Bloggers Raise Voices Against Martial Law

Karlo Mikhail Mongaya · 11:06, December 10th, 2009 · East Asia

As the world commemorates International Human Rights Day, Filipino bloggers are eerily reminded of the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo imposed martial law in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao. 1 comment · read »

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December 11th, 2009

Chile: Leading Candidates for Presidential Elections

Nike Jung · 18:41 · Americas

On the road to Chile's presidential election on January 2010, four candidates lead the first round of voting on December 13: Alliance for Change's Sebastián Piñera, Concertación's Eduardo Frei, independent candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami, and from the left wing Juntos Podemos Más party, Jorge Arrate. 1 comment · read »

Russia: Three Stories of Extreme Poverty

Veronica Khokhlova · 02:39 · Eastern & Central Europe

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Russian photojournalist Oleg Klimov shares three stories of extreme poverty that he happened to overhear while waiting for a train at the train station in Syzran, a city in Russia's Samara region. 0 comments · read »

December 10th, 2009

Video: Human Rights Day and Non-Discrimination

Juliana Rincón Parra · 17:11 · Sub-Saharan Africa , Americas

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December 10th is Human Rights Day, and this year's topic is Non Discrimination and today we bring you a small selection of some of the videos people have made and uploaded to sustain this Human Right. 0 comments · read »

Colombia: Celebration of Lights and Candles

Issa Villarreal · 10:40 · Americas

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Every year on December 7 and 8 Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles) gathers families and enlightens the streets of Colombia announcing the arrival of Christmas. 1 comment · read »

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Americas

Typical hand expressions, gestures and body language from Nicaragua are throughly explained on Los hijos de septiembre [es].

Eastern & Central Europe

At OpenDemocracy.net, Andreas Umland writes about two books that “cast light on what the Orange Revolution was really about, and review its significance against the background of developments in Russia.” At Jamestown Foundation Blog, Tammy Lynch covers the issues brought up during the recent EU-Ukraine summit - here and here.

South Asia

Reflecting on a case of recent dowry death in Bangladesh, Basira wonders if dowry deaths will ever be a thing of the past.

East Asia

Martin J Frid from Kurashi blogs about the land use distribution in rural Japan.

South Asia

Soumyadip at Cutting the Chai talks about the dangers of sponsored news and why he has come to rely more “on the opinions of individuals who are unassociated with the media: the bloggers, the twitterers, the forums”.

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