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14 January 2012

India: Did BBC Top Gear's India Special Really Offend Indian Sensibilities?

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

The BBC's recently aired Top Gear India Special episode contained humor that was not well received by some Indians. The issue got complicated as the Indian High Commission in London formally complained to the BBC saying it lacked cultural sensitivity. Netizens react.

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11 January 2012

India: The Curious Case of Draping Statues to Ensure Fair Elections

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

Netizens react to the recent order by the Indian Election Commission that all statues in the state of Uttar Pradesh of current Chief Minister Ms. Mayawati and her party symbol, the elephant, be draped by Wednesday 11 January, 2012.

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29 December 2011

Colombia: Salsa Song Criticizes Bus Rapid Transport System

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

A salsa song and video documents the suffering that travelling in the Transmilenio public transportation system of Bogota represents for its users.

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Macedonia: Twitter Hashtag for Prime Minister - #Ж

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The Macedonian Twitter community is using the hashtag #Ж (uppercase of the Cyrillic letter romanized as Zh or Ž) as the shortcut symbol referring to the Macedonian PM. Filip Stojanovski explains why.

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27 December 2011

Morocco: The Tale of the February 20 Movement in 20 Videos

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

A look back at how the Moroccan pro-democracy movement "February 20" has used videos, as very powerful and viral social media tool to get its message across. Hisham Almiraat shares a selection of the 20 most popular and viral videos that marked the course of the February 20 Movement over the past 10 months.

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17 December 2011

China: Pandaman vs. Christian “Batman” Bale Goes Viral

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Christian Bale's recent run-in with state security police (aka "Pandas") has inspired a series of viral spoof images, and coincides with the news that another high-profile Chinese dissident has been put back in prison 20 months after he was 'released' on probation.

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23 January 2012

North Korea

There was once the internet meme named “Kim Jong-il Looking at Things“, a collection of photographs of Kim visiting government facilities the net users have gathered together to mock his authoritative posture. After Kim died last year, net users have launched a new version, “Kim Jong-un Looking at Things” as appeared in Kotaku site.

• Lee Yoo Eun

18 January 2012

17 January 2012

D.R. of Congo

The website Congo LOL reports that “On twitter, the hastag #plusoumoins (#moreorless in english) has created quite a buzz (in DR of Congo). The reason ? The answer given by Miss Laura Beyne (Miss Belgium 2012) on a question on gay marriage. “I think they [homosexuals] are human beings (…) they can do “more or less” whatever they want. I am “more or less” in favor of gay marriage. ”

• Abdoulaye Bah

13 January 2012

Trinidad & Tobago

“Make a child and the cramps could get better. Could. If that was the sort of reason people were having children for then no wonder the country’s in such a state of hot messiness”: Suszanna.com shares her reasons for choosing to have a myomectomy.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bulgaria

Vastagbőr blog collected [hu] some internet memes about the President of Hungary Pál Schmitt, the newest of which appeared after hvg.hu news site published an article titled ‘Serious Suspicion of Plagiarism in Pál Schmitt's Ph.D. Dissertation‘ [hu]. According to hvg.hu, the President had allegedly plagiarized his dissertation ('Analysis of the Modern Olympic Games Program') from the text of a Bulgarian sports expert Nikolai Georgiev. The Presidential Office claims [hu] that Schmitt and Georgiev knew each other well personally, collaborated and used the same sources.

• Marietta Le

6 January 2012

Jamaica

Under the Saltire Flag is proud of the job his uncle has done as Chairman of Jamaica’s electoral committee, following the country's recent general elections, noting that he “made one unfortunate comment leading up to the elections. He said that all electoral officers should speak ONLY in English”. The blogger explains: “I think it is both sad and utterly ironic, that in our most democratic moment, some Jamaicans were not allowed to speak in their most demotic language.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

5 January 2012

Jamaica

Jamaica Salt says of the outcome of the recent national elections: “It’s not surprising she won after the debacle of the one term Bruce Golding JLP government”, while B.C. Pires quips that God is the new Jamaican Prime Minister.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Comments on "Humor"

Israel: The Lie, the Truth and the Meme (of the Soldier and the Girl)

"(even though that type of thing DOES happen in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict)" - it would be a miracle if someone,...
Hi, Yes , but do not be fooled by thinking that the Israeli army are innocent and that they are...
This is the problem now days that people go directly and circulate what they received without checking the story. Sometimes they...