Global Voices · Citizen media stories from January 2006

January, 2006

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Stories from January, 2006

30 January 2006

Malaysia: Happy Chinese New Year

Yesterday was the start of the Year of the Dog based on the Chinese lunar calendar and it's also one of the major celebration in Malaysia. During the Chinese New...

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Indonesia is discussing about blog

Written by Enda Nasution · East Asia

Discussion about Indonesian Blogs, attended by about 20 bloggers, only a fraction of the total estimated 10,000 Indonesian bloggers, the discussion take placed at Detikinet's office

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29 January 2006

The Year of the Dog Comes to the Rest of East Asia

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro · East Asia

“Da Hong Deng Long” (Big Red Lantern) by Yining Zhang Blogs all around East and Southeast Asia have gone grey this past weekend as many, particularly those in the overseas...

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Pakistan: Blog-o-mobile

Written by Omer Alvie · South Asia

I apologize for not having posted for nearly a fortnight, but I have a pretty good reason for being MIA. The traffic on the internet highway has become so excruciatingly...

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28 January 2006

Turkey is Typing…

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

This week's post will be shorter than normal, please bare with me…. Turkish Torque celebrates his 1000th post this week, congratulations! Ugur has translated an excellent article about how the...

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We Love Cooking!

Written by Melissa De León · Middle East & North Africa, East Asia

#1: All Indian food does NOT taste the same! From the UK, We all live downstream explains this popular belief that find its roots in the lack of adventurous spirit...

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Revolutionary Awareness in the WSF

Written by Iria Puyosa · North America, Latin America

Bloggers attending the World Social Forum in Caracas have been speaking out with constructive criticisms on organizational pitfalls. Issues related to transportation, the youth camp facilities, and information problems have...

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Happy Chinese Lunar New Year

Written by Frank Dai · East Asia

Today is the Chinese Lunar New Year's eve, which are regarded as the most important festival in China and mark the beginning of a year with warm spring coming, so...

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27 January 2006

There is No Festival in Cartagena

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

The following is an abbreviated translation of a post originally written in Spanish by Colombian journalist, Efraim Medina Reyes at Blogscolombia.com. In the most recent issue of the magazine, Arcadia,...

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WSF Bamako - What it means for Africa

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

The World Social Forum (WSF) is a yearly gathering of civil society groups and social movements that meets every year in order to try to find solutions to fight against...

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Updates from January, 2006

31 January 2006

Venezuela

Caracas-resident Barbadian Campfyah discovers patilla amarillo.

• Georgia Popplewell

Barbados

Titilayo writes about the newly launched Barbados Music Awards, and thinks the event signifies good things for Barbados's music. But she also wonders whether they'll last.

• Georgia Popplewell

South Africa

Mzansi Afrika comments on the debate taking place in South Africa over whether condoms should be available in classrooms …”The main argument, surprise, surprise, was from the whole moralistic religious viewpoint that condoms encourage sex, and sex before marriage, especially among teens is bad. The other concerns were around sex and HIV/AIDS.”

• Sokari Ekine

South Africa

Moral Fibre from South Africa, reports on a row over the Afrikaans language between opposition parties and a military judge who complained about the use of the language in an official context… “”… I must say it on record that to me it is disgusting that at this time and age we still find official correspondence or official communication in Afrikaans…”

• Sokari Ekine

Kenya

Molara Wood points to an interview with Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, in Saturdays UK Guardian…..”I told them I wanted to be in touch with the everyday. But we returned to a nightmare”

• Sokari Ekine

Aruba

At 25, ArubaGirl is wondering whether it would be wise for her to buy a house. “Am I being crazy to cling to the land?” she asks.

• Georgia Popplewell

China

Danwei summarizes the recent crackdowns on print publications in China that characterized the end of the Year of the Rooster. But there is a note of hope: “Yet as we enter the Year of the Dog, things are very different than they were even a year ago. The Internet has proved itself a far superior medium for spreading information than any newspaper or magazine can hope to be, and Chinese journalists, editors and writers are taking full advantage of it.”

• Jose Manuel Tesoro

Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thank you for weighing in Muza, your blog was an inspiration for this post. A few people on twitter...
A survey of African science blogging would be useful to see who is blogging, where and about what and as...

Do you know the Philippine government is one of the BIGGEST LAND GRABBERS in the South China Sea? Philippine has...

"the unfounded assumptions and allegations" you are talking about are some French bloggers 'opinions and reactions. Our goal at Global...
maybe you should know that your unfounded assumptions and allegations have started a pointless debate here in France. Think Like...