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28 June 2010

Japan and the World Cup: Silencing the critics

Written by Chris Salzberg · Arts & Culture, Sport

Ranked near the bottom of the 32 teams on the field in South Africa, facing odds estimated at 400-to-1 and four straight pre-tournament losses to boot, Japan was not even expected to win a game in this year's World Cup. But with their convincing 3-1 win over Denmark, perceptions have completely changed, propelling coach Takashi Okada from the butt of all jokes to a national hero.

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21 December 2009

Video: Impressions from the Climate Change Conference

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Arts & Culture, Environment

We bring you some video impressions from people at the Climate Change Conference that took place during the first weeks of December in Copenhagen, Denmark. From protests, to dances, arts and presentations, a small sample of COP15.

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14 December 2009

Canada said what? Phishing Spoof at Climate Change Summit

Written by Solana Larsen · Environment, Humor

The Canadian government supposedly released an angry statement today, denouncing a spoof that supposedly made it as far as the Wall Street Journal, claiming that Canada had shifted its policy and would be agreeing to greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Dispatch from Copenhagen: Demands for Climate Justice

Written by Saffah Faroog · Development, Environment

Saffah Faroog is one of four Global Voices Authors in Copenhagen during the United Nations Climate Change Summit covering the lively conversations occurring in the blogosphere surrounding COP15.

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3 December 2009

Climate Change Skeptics Incited by Leaked Emails

Written by Lester Bolicenni · Environment, Science

Hundreds of emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) have been hacked and posted online, adding fuel to the beliefs of climate change skeptics.

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17 November 2009

Denmark: The Climate Debt Agents are Coming

Written by Solana Larsen · Environment, Protest

The Climate Debt Agents are group of men and women from Denmark and Africa who are taking on the challenge of getting developed countries to pay their climate debt to the developing world.

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11 November 2009

Denmark: Immigrants offered money to leave the country

Written by Solana Larsen · Governance, Law

Denmark is offering immigrants from “non-Western” countries 100,000 Danish kroners (US$20,000) if they volunteer to move “home”. A Facebook group protesting the law has been set up to collect 100,000 kroners to pay the leader of the anti-immigrant Danish People's Party to leave the country instead.

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30 September 2009

Denmark: International bloggers meet up to think about climate change

Written by Deborah Goldemberg · Blogger Profiles

Copenhagen hosted the launch event of the European Blogging Competition TH!NK ABOUT IT - Climate Change, bringing together 92 European bloggers, and special guests from Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and the USA.

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26 September 2009

Global Voices Mentors Update: Warming up to Climate Change

Written by Sadiq Alam · Blogger Profiles, Announcements

A team of 31 Global Voices Blogger Mentors have each been paired with one Danish or African student in order to help them become more familiar with both the technical and human aspects of blogging.

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8 September 2009

Global Voices Bloggers Mentor New Danish and African Bloggers

Written by Solana Larsen · Announcements

Emails have begun to fly this week between 31 Global Voices mentors and 31 participants in a newly launched educational program in Copenhagen, Denmark called Global Change.

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Updates about Denmark

19 May 2010

English

A video of a surprise flashmob to celebrate a bus driver's birthday forms part of a professional social media campaign to promote public bus transit in Denmark.

• Solana Larsen

9 February 2010

Updates

Oonvar Donya, Iranian blogger, says [fa] eight Iranian got arrested in Copenhagen, Denmark after they threw green paint at Iranian embassy. Watch the photos here.

• Fred Petrossian

13 December 2009

Russian

Sergey Kovalyov (LJ user skovalyov; #skovalyov on Twitter) posts seven photos of mass arrests of protesters on Amagerbrogade in Copenhagen and writes (RUS) about it on his blog.

• Veronica Khokhlova

10 December 2009

Environment

AskYakutia.com and Window on Eurasia write about climate change issues in the Russian North.

• Veronica Khokhlova

27 April 2009

English

Meedan announces that data expert Will Ward is “heading to Copenhagen’s New Islamic Public Sphere programme for a couple of weeks as a Meedan representative. The idea is to share ideas about our attempts to map the Arab blogosphere and get input on our growing Arab Media Index, which will soon be featured on http://meedan.net.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

23 January 2009

Updates

Belatedly, links to some posts on Entropa: Margarete of The Foreigner's Guide to Living in Slovakia believes “it should be taken down”; Kosmopolito thinks that “the debate around the project is also part of the installation”; BBC's Mark Mardell writes that “the fact that it is a hoax does not mean that the art itself is bad”; Blue, Black and White Alert doesn't think Entropa is “that incendiary”; A Fistful of Euros considers Entropa “an ugly but really funny piece of work.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

14 November 2008

Updates

27-year-old Amila Jašarević fled Bosnia & Herzegovina in 1993 and has since been living in Denmark. On her blog, Amila Bosnae, she describes her first visit to Serbia: “Although our hosts from the different Serbian NGOs did whatever they could to make us comfortable, there was nothing they could do about the radical graffiti and posters all over Belgrade. Or the daily nationalist rallies in support of Radovan Karadžić. Or simply the fact that I was always very aware that I was a Bosnian in Serbia.” (Link via Belgraded.com)

• Veronica Khokhlova

21 February 2008

Updates

“Oh, no. Not again. Not Danish cartoons. Ayatullah Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah sent an official letter to the Danish government regarding Danish cartoons (not pastries). He express his concern that “some Jewish sides that are linked to International Zionism” may be behind Danish cartons,” announces The Angry Arab News Services.

• Amira Al Hussaini

7 August 2007

Updates

Rysk Mosaik is a new Scandinavian bloghub for blogs in Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian, about Russian politics and society. It currently publishes posts from six Scandinavian blogs, but has the potential to become a regional Russia bloghub. The downside of it is that it is limited to blogs in Scandinavian languages.

• Vilhelm Konnander

16 May 2007

Updates

Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar reports that three Danish soldiers have been captured in Iraq. ‘A number of Arabic news websites, affiliated with armed groups in Iraq, are reporting that 3 Danish troops were captured by an ‘Iraqi resistance group'. A Danish military spokesman in Copenhagen confirmed that one soldier was killed and five wounded, without any more details about missing troops,” he writes. He later announced that the three were released by British forces.

• Amira Al Hussaini

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