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31 May 2006

Daily archive · 7 posts

Stories from 31 May 2006

The Week That Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Bolivians have long resigned themselves to the fact that their football national team will also be home watching the upcoming World Cup on television. For the third straight tourney, Bolivia...

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China: Don't learn Chinese for business opps, learn it for this book

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

For unavoidable reasons known to all, or at least presumed, Lifeweek editor Wang Xiaofeng, one of China's most entertaining bloggers—known to many for a hoax [#026] pulled in March this...

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Kurdistance: NGO Project Update

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

Ok, so maybe the title of today's post is a little bit of a misnomer, but our commentators today all mention NGO projects…and I'll give you some extra links to...

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Indonesia: IM Conference Room for Quake Relief

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

DSC01549 Originally uploaded by Yulianta Ramelan. The World Wide Help Group is maintaining a live IM conference at all times for Java quake relief efforts using Yahoo Messenger so that...

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Jailed Cartoonist, Riots in Universities & Anniversary of a Victory

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Last week Global Voices reported about the cartoon affair and unrest in Azeri community. This affair goes on and Mana Neyestani, the cartoonist who drew this cartoon, and his editor,...

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Indonesia: Java Quake Help Wiki Needs Online Volunteers

Written by Angelo Embuldeniya · Indonesia

In response to the Java Quake of 27th May, 2006, the World Wide Help Group have set up the Java Quake Help Wiki and since it was set up, in...

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Demystifying Tamil as a language and a person

Written by Bharat · South Asia

What is Tamil? For some it's a language, for some it's a religion, for the uninitiated, wikipedia to the rescue. There is of course also the the Wikipedia in Tamil....

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Updates from 31 May 2006

Updates

Jamaican Simone Champagnie links to What does That Mean, “a free, user-built dictionary of English idioms, buzzwords, and catch phrases from around the world”. The site includes entries from North America, the British Commonwealth, Italy, Japan and South Korea.

• Georgia Popplewell

Cameroon

Fojrega posts (Fr) the nationalschedule of baccalaureate exams in Cameroon.

• Alice Backer

Bermuda

The Limey cites several examples of equivocation on the part of Bermuda's MP's over their failure to debate an important amendment to the Human Rights Act last week, and reports that a rally is being organised to protest the lack of debate among the MPs. Christian Dunleavy reproduces on his blog his op-ed from the Royal Gazette analysing the reasons the bill failed.

• Georgia Popplewell

Barbados

On his freshly launched blog, Jamaican novelist Marlon James weighs in on the New York Times “Top Twenty-Five American Books”. Barbadian blogger Titilayo singles out a few notables from TIME magazine's “list of “100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming our world”.

• Georgia Popplewell

Canada

Jdid, a Barbadian immigrant living in Toronto, has very mixed feelings about the protests against the deportation of illegals which took place recently in Canada. “I feel badly for someone who built up a life here and then had it cruelly plucked from beneath them but at the same time you came here illegally. You broke the law and at some point you did know it could or would come back to haunt you,” he says, while also wondering whether he might be “a sellout doing the man's job for him. Shouldn't I be showing solidarity with my immigrant brothers and sisters?”

• Georgia Popplewell