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27 October 2005

Daily archive · 5 posts

Stories from 27 October 2005

Kiswahili Bloggers this week

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Tanzanian Kiswahili bloggers continue to write about the presidential and parliamentary elections taking at the end of the month. Mwandani comes across an open letter of advice addressed to the...

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Images from Japan: Sushi

Written by Paul Frankenstein · East Asia

“Sushi” by Sekihan A young woman ponders the display at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo.

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Pulse of the Saudi Blogosphere

Written by Ahmed Al-Omran · Middle East & North Africa

This week, Abu Hamad has a question to his Saudi readers: “what would you do if Bush and his “junta” decided to invade Saudi?” He thinks that with current state...

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This weeks voices from Nigeria and Ghana

Written by Edward Popoola · Sub-Saharan Africa

Chippla reports on the Belleveiw plane crash in Nigeria last weekend. He talks about the first few hours after the plane crashed. He gave an account of Nigerian's perception of...

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Nepal: Kantipur FM, Democracy and Media

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

Nepal: Kantipur FM, Democracy and Media

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Updates from 27 October 2005

El Salvador

Tim comments on the release of a recent World Bank report on “brain drain,” which found that “one third of Salvadorans with a professional education live outside of El Salvador.”

• David Sasaki

Colombia

blogscolombia.com proudly announces that Valentina's weblog, Colombian Realities has been nominated for a Best of Blogs award.

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Hands Off Venezuela gets props from Chavez in Paris. Topochoblog estimates that there are around 3,000 weblogs in Venezuela and asks his readers what their impact has been so far [ES]. Plenty of ideas in the comment section.

• David Sasaki

Argentina

Ian of GoodAirs tries to give more meaning to last Sunday's election compared to what he saw as a boring, girl fight story picked up by the international media. Meanwhile, Mirko doesn't understand why Argentines are making so much fuss about Bush's upcoming visit [ES] for the Summit of the Americas.

• David Sasaki

Trinidad & Tobago

Georgia Popplewell posts about yet another small bomb explosion in Port of Spain and includes a map of the five recent explosions to hit the capitol city. Jacqueline A. Morris wonders why local media did not bring up Trinidad and Tobago's high rating in Reporters Without Borders' “Third Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index.”

• David Sasaki

Israel

Lisa Goldman of on the face blog says: “We Jews and Arabs, we live side-by-side and we watch each other and we interact (sometimes) but we don't really know each other. We think we do, but we don't. Ignorance leads to fear, and too often fear does lead to loathing.”

• Haitham Sabbah

Bahrain

Zainab Alkhawaja wonders, who is real Jews?

• Haitham Sabbah

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