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African Shirts has a roundup of some of UK's hip hop bands
A storm in the Chinese blogsphere this week. Not the heated kind, though—this one's meteorological. A sandstorm has been raging through Beijing and parts of Northern China since April 10....
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Both China and India are keen on importing natural gas from Myanmar's huge reserves. In the past India has sympathised with Myanmar's pro-democracy elements but recent years have seen India warming up to the ruling military government. Paresh asks if India should do a deal with Myanmar's rulers and face the anger of pro-democracy organisations.
neweurasia reports on Turkmenistan's efforts to increase gas exports, saying that it is unlikely it will be able to meet its contractual obligations for selling gas anytime soon.
As usual, Luke Distelhorst has numerous updates on the ongoing protests in Mongolia at neweurasia including the news that the country's prime minister met with the leader of the protests and a transcript of a press release calling into question many of the protesters' complaints about Ivanhoe Mines.
Christian Garbis adds his thoughts on the death of the Indian student in Yerevan and subsequent protests, saying that the incident underlines the apathy and lack of urgency that are all-too-common in Armenia.
An Indian studying in Armenia fell from an open window and died after emergency services took 45 minutes to respond. Armenian police detained other Indian students for questioning and university officials showed little concern for students' complaints prompting protests. Onnik Krikorian has extensive coverage and many photos of the protests.
Erica writes about corruption in Kyrgyzstan and the situation in her country at Kyrgyzstan Student Blog.
Leo Prieto says that local newspaper La Estrella de Iquique used one of his Creative Commons-licensed photos without attribution and that he plans on taking legal action. Creative Commons licenses were officially adopted in Chile late last year.
Adam Isacson explains why President Álvaro Uribe's popularity is based on one single issue.
Viva El Salvador has pictures of a Good Friday procession in Apaneca, El Salvador.
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...