Global Voices

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The world is talking, are you listening?

Panama

TecnoCHICA, written by two young women in Panama received some international media coverage with the help of Ecuadorean blogger and journalism professor, Christian Espinosa.

Puerto Rico (U.S.)

Tinta Digital writes that Puerto Rican governor, Anibal Acevedo Vilá [ES] answered questions submitted as comments to the weblog of the popular radio program, Agitando El Show.

Egypt

Ritzy Mabrouk says that in this report, Australia topped the chart with 46 percent of its population saying they were ‘‘very happy’’, followed by the US (40 percent), Egypt (36 percent) and India (34 percent). The UK and Canada shared the fifth spot, with 32 percent claiming to be very happy.

Bahrain

Zainab on a trip to Madison, she meets someone:

“where are you guys from?” I said “Bahrain”
The guy said “OHHHHHHHHH Bahrain”
“You KNOW Bahrain??”
“Yes…”
“Really??” I was still in shock
“Yes, thats where Michael Jackson is, isn't it”

Jordan

Haitham's predictions came true. Now they are linking Oklahoma Suicide Bomber to Muslims.

Saudi Arabia

Dotsson says that according to this 92.5% of the Kingdom's internet users try to access websites that are blocked for one reason or another!

United Arab Emirates

Secret Dubai diary writes that UAE labour figures are always startling. There are around one million Asian migrants working as unskilled labourers in the UAE, nearly a quarter of the ~4.5 million population.

Peru

Coming off the success of the first “Festival of Blogs,” the folks behind BlogsPerú have announced the theme of the second Festival of Blogs to be “Are Weblogs Profitable?”

Venezuela

Matt Asay says two Venezuelan government officials approached him at LinuxWorld UK, where he spoke, wanting to learn more about switching from Microsoft to Linux-based systems.

Jordan

Naseem Tarawnah talks about Jordanian electoral system history, present and future.