Global Voices Online

Teenage bloggers from #Armenia and #Azerbaijan have met in the U.S as part of the DOTCOM project. Follow their adventures and activities at DOTCOM: PH International or on Twitter at #DOTCOM

Tzitzernak2 posts a video of fugitive newspaper editor and opposition activist Nikol Pashinian turning himself in after a more than a year on the run following last year's post-election unrest in Armenia. Meanwhile, @unzippedblog reports that @nikolpashinyan has started tweeting from detention in the building of the National Security Service (NSS) in Yerevan.

Michael Hancock opines on the perspectives of the controversial law on online censorship in Kazakhstan.

Bernard Leong observes that Facebook is almost the dominant social networking platform in Southeast Asia. It has overtaken Friendster in Malaysia and is getting more members in other countries in the region.

Rajesh Jain at Emergic gives a brief overview of the state of the internet in India in 2009 in a multi-part series. Read them here (part 1, part2, part3, part4).

Csíkszereda Musings writes about Csíkszereda's English-language blogs - here and here.

Mohammad Tauheed, a TED Fellow from Bangladesh has recently hosted “TEDxDhaka” the first TEDx event (x= independently organized TED event) in Bangladesh.

Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas was detained and questioned for 13 hours upon arrival in Cairo from a conference in Sweden. “finally released after 13 hours, found the lost bag, but they took the laptop still, i'm home now, will try to rest no calls plz thank u all,” he tweets after his release. In another tweet, he says his laptop was confiscated by the authorities.

David Bandurski from China Media Project explains the meaning of control 2.0 and checks how it works / or not works in Shishou riots.