Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 April 02

2 April 2006

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Stories from 2 April 2006

Bold Flavors of the World

Written by Melissa De León · East Asia, South Asia

#1: From Cambodia, Phnomenon To understand Cambodian cooking, we have to look back to explore the historical events that took place there and the cultures that influenced the building of...

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Belarus: Political Jokes

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Post-Soviet bloggers continue a good old Soviet tradition of coping with reality and expressing dissent through political jokes (politicheskiye anekdoty) - seemingly innocent stuff that's not really fit to print...

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Echoes from the Tunisian Blogosphere

Written by Mohamed Marwen Meddah · Middle East & North Africa

Mochekes (FR), MMM, Tom (FR), Kaaboura and Adib (FR) write about Dubai's TECOM winning the bid for a 35% stake of Tunisie Telecom, the monopoly fixed-line operator in Tunisia which...

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Updates from 2 April 2006

Egypt

Yesterday, Elijah was inside the Wafd Party headquarters as rival factions clashed there and 23 journalists, lawyers, and party employees were injured during clashes with supporters of Noman Gomaa. Elijah uploaded few photos which shows the clashes. A few days ago, Elijah also blogged about Gamal Mubarak's first live TV interview and the prospects for succession, eventually proposing Baheyya for president.