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Peru: Encounters with Taxi Driver Scams

Issa Villarreal — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:26:52 +0000

Jacqueline shares on her blog two encounters in Lima [es] with the same taxi driver: on the first one she cried after hearing about the driver's son accident; on the second one, she realized he was a scammer.

Nepal: Cabinet Meeting At Mount Everest

Rezwan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:38:01 +0000

Ujjwal Acharya at The Radiant Star informs that to propagate about climate change issues the Nepal government has held a cabinet meeting at 18,192 ft above sea level in the Mount Everest.

Pakistan: Bomb Attack In Rawalpindi

Rezwan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:47:13 +0000

“Light Within” informs that today a terrorist attack on a mosque located in Rawalpindi, Pakistan took lives of a number of people.

Sri Lanka: Up-coming President Election

Rezwan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:37:17 +0000

Ajit Rupasinghe at Groundviews discusses about the up-coming Presidential election in Sri Lanka and the aspirations of the citizens.

India: 25 Years Of Bhopal Tragedy

Rezwan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:06:18 +0000

Lekhni at The Imagined Universe remembers 25 years of Bhopal gas tragedy in India and discusses what lesson it teaches us.

Trinidad & Tobago: Small Farmers

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:44:39 +0000

“Hopefully after viewing this you will be inspired to plant your own organic garden (i.e. if you don't have one already)”: Now Is Wow Too posts a video she recorded of an initiative by the students of a Trinidadian primary school.

Haiti: Outrage over Lavalas Election Ban

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:38:32 +0000

The Haitian Blogger highlights reactions to what is being called “rigged” elections carded for February 2010.

Guyana: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:33:53 +0000

Repeating Islands reports that Guyana's efforts in climate change reform have been praised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Trinidad & Tobago: Carnival Breathalyser

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:24:31 +0000

Trinidad Carnival Diary says: “I think the breathalyser is a long time coming…though it will certainly take some adjusting to in a culture where there is a rum shop on practically every corner.”

Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: We are the Windies

Janine Mendes-Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:18:55 +0000

B.C. Pires thinks that Roebuck and Berry, two well respected names in the cricket fraternity, are “simply wrong…in their contention that the West Indies national cricket team should be allowed…to splinter into its constituent island teams and have the smaller, purportedly more strongly motivated teams seek Test-playing status on their own.”

China: The Chengdu Self-Immolation

Oiwan Lam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:26:30 +0000

A woman, Tang Fuzhen, in Chengdu set herself on fire in order to protest against the forced demolition of her home. ESWN translated a T.V news commentary on the incident.

China: AIDS patient's call for freedom and rights

Oiwan Lam — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:16:53 +0000

C. Custer from ChinaGeeks translated a blog post written by Wang Keqin about his friend, a AIDS patient, who was detained by local government before the International AIDS day because of his involvement in civic rights activity.

Mexico: Finding the truth for abrogation of vehicle tax

Issa Villarreal — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:21:46 +0000

Contributor El Alteño of blog Hazme el Chingado Favor confronts an e-mail chainletter against official sources regarding Mexican government's abrogation of the vehicle ownership tax [es] that will be enforced in 2012.

Russia: Newspaper Website Hacked And Completely Destroyed

Alexey Sidorenko — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:42:19 +0000

The Web site of a popular Russian tabloid “Moskovsky Komsomolets” [RUS] lost all of its online data due to the recent hacker attack, radio “Ekho Moskvy” reports [RUS].

Pakistan: List Of NRO Beneficiaries

Rezwan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:07:19 +0000

Adil Najam discusses about a recently released list of 8000 persons including the president of Pakistan and 34 Pakistani politicians who have benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), promulgated by former president Pervez Musharraf on Oct 5, 2007. This ordinance “grants amnesty to all those against whom politically-motivated cases were registered between Jan 1, 1986, and Oct 12, 1999.”