Global Voices Online

Michael Turton blogs about the political implication of collapsing stock market in Taiwan.

The Haitian Blogger refers to an article that ran in a mainstream Egyptian newspaper to make the point that “the human rights of Haitians are violated daily by the international community.”

What is the cost of doing business in Uganda? Jonathan, an American software developer living in Uganda, writes, “A Breakdown of the Costs of Doing Business in Africa.”

Here is South Africa's answer to PayPal: “Payfast, out of South Africa is a paypal like service. The site bill’s itself as a payment processing system and has already integrated with bid or buy.”

There are reasons to cheer for M-PESA, the mobile banking system in Kenya: “Anyone with a new Safaricom sim card would have noticed two additional menus under the M-PESA section: ‘Buy Goods' and ‘ATM Withdrawal'.”

“Cuba is a sports-loving country, and interest extends beyond the island’s participation, to that of athletes from other latitudes”: Circles Robinson writes about the experience of watching the Olympics from Havana, adding that “there could be nothing more diametrically opposed than Olympics sports coverage in Cuba and the United States.”

The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia reports that “the state mint located in Kremnica began minting Slovak euro coins” this week.

Shen yin from the mindmeter posted an interview with a local manufacturer talking about the difficult market condition that Chinese manufacturers are facing [zh].