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Luke Distelhorst reports that Mongolia, a country without a single inch of ocean coastline, has come out as a supporter of whaling. Like many other countries with a newfound support for whaling, Mongolia receives aid from Japan.
Raffi, whose work has been victim to piracy, writes about Armenia's record industry.
James summarizes a Russian language post on the final humanitarian aid project of the European Comission in Tajikistan.
CXW says that blogging is increasingly popular in Kyrgyzstan and profiles the blog of the EKOIS project which provides loads of information on environmental issues in Kyrgyzstan.
Ani reports on the two celebrations of World No-Smoking Day in Armenia this year and discusses smoking in the country.
Bob Glass writes that unions in Costa Rica will take to the streets today, one day earlier than planned.
Both Sean and The Limey post photos sent in by readers of a cruise ship that ran aground off the coast of Bermuda. Christian Dunleavy suggests jokingly that the ship was piloted by Lt. Col. David Burch, and run aground in a effort to distract the public from a news story about Burch's being slammed by the Broadcasting Commission for an allegedly racist comment he made on radio.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...