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30 May 2006

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Stories from 30 May 2006

Latest in the Francophone Caribbean Blogosphere

Written by Alice Backer · Caribbean

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How to Help Indonesia Earthquake Victims

Written by A. Fatih Syuhud · East Asia

Members of International community who are very concerned with the Indonesia earthquake where the death toll exceeds 5,000 and many more thousands injured now can visit Merlyna Lim's blog where...

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India: films, cricket and monsoons and more…

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

This was yet another hectic week in India...bloggers wrote about films, cricket, monsoons etc, etc...

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Russia: “And You Call It A Gay [Pride] Parade?”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

This past Saturday marked the 13th anniversary of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Russia, and a number of people attempted to take part in a gay pride parade in Moscow...

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Indonesia: Earthquake Relief

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

The World Wide Help team has set up Java Quake Help Wiki. The team is looking for online volunteers to help them with content and translation on the wiki as...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

Vakhs valley, March 2006, Erik Petersson, Dushanbe Pictures. Welcome to the latest roundup from the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere, brought to you by neweurasia. First off, apologies for the...

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Kenya: innovations

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Kikuyumoja’s realm searches for a hands free mobile phone holder for his car in Nairobi and comes up with an excellent innovative alternative to commerical products.

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From the West African Blogosphere

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Sub-Saharan Africa

A student in the University of Ghana blogs at Africa Update and is painting a brief sketch of what final exams are like, in the university. now, do remember that...

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Colombia: President Uribe Reelected in Landslide

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

In a landslide decision (66% compared to runner-up Carlos Gaviria's 22%), Colombians went to the polls on Sunday and reelected President Álvaro Uribe. Here is a selection of what Colombian...

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Updates from 30 May 2006

Venezuela

Commenting on the detention of Former Yaracuy Governor Eduardo Lapi who was Miguel Octavio opines: “Reportedly he will be charged with misuse of funds. Thus, as the robolution robs, steals and charges commisions, opposition figures are detained for subtle charges of misuse of funds. If the same criterai were applied to the Government, they would all be in jail …”

• David Sasaki

Mexico

Goleech cites the May 29 poll by María de las Heras, which has leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrado back in the lead with half a percentage point over Felipe Calderón and three points ahead of Roberto Madrazo.

• David Sasaki

Updates

Commenting on the announcement by Technorati and Edelman that the two companies will join forces to include blog posts on traditional media websites, Julio Alonso wonders how it is that the project will launch in English, German, Korean, Italian, French, and Chinese, but not Spanish [ES]. “Could it be that Edelman is less interested in our market?” Alonso asks.

• David Sasaki

Mexico

In a summary of Latin American news, Western Hemisphere Policy Watch describes tension over the militarized border … the Costa Rica-Nicaragual border. Isopixel is upset [ES] by an offensive song posted on the website of the US anti-immigration group, the Minutemen, which calls President Vicente Fox - among other things - “the Mexican dictator.”

• David Sasaki

Mongolia

Luke Distelhorst says that, because of the country's climate, construction is restricted to a few months of the year. Though floods and snow can strike even in late May, construction season is upon Mongolia, though Luke notes that at one site, none of the workers speak Mongolian.

• Nathan Hamm

Kyrgyzstan

Yulia of neweurasia reports on Saturday's opposition protest in Bishkek during which Kyrgyz opposition members demanded significant reform by September.

• Nathan Hamm

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Slang Words

In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...