Global Voices Online

Michelle Dion writes about a recent court case in Mexico where a judge ruled that Coke-FEMSA dismissed a worker because of his sexual orientation.

Carolina, Juan, and Pedro are among the contestants of Reality Blog, which predictably enough is the Chilean blogosphere's equivalent of reality T.V.

Việt Nam is famous for having extremely high literacy rates for a developing country. Down and Out in Sài Gòn observes that when it comes to foreign shows, many Vietnamese prefer listening to dubbed voices than reading subtitles.

Hell's Dire Agent links to a An Asian Perspective on Online Mediation.

LandFall thinks that “emancipation” from author Terri McMillan has been good for Jonathan Plummer, if only in the looks department. Plummer is the young Jamaican McMillan met while on vacation in Jamaica and eventually married, and who subsequently revealed he was gay. The story of their meeting was the inspiration for McMillan's novel How Stella Got her Groove Back.

A brilliant photo-post at Samudaya.org showing protestors being shoved around by the police. Not even UN Monitors and journalists were spared.

United We Blog! has a feature on “A student in Nepal remembers how her life has changed after an army bullet fired at pro-democracy students hit her.”

Entrance To The Shrine on Bombay: The trains, dirt, romanticizing the journey on trains, dabbawallah system and more.

Reuben at Zoostation writes about Cochin, its Jew Town and some of the last “White Jews” left.