Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 June 21

21 June 2006

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Stories from 21 June 2006

The Week That Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Watching a World Cup in person can be such a memorable experience. Even if one’s country is not one of the two competitors, it can still prove to be awe-inspiring....

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India Changing: Calcutta to Kolkatta and much, much more…

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

Change is the central theme of the post...in how many ways is India changing, how are the changes coming etc. etc.

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India, US: In the 1980s

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia, North America

US for the Indian in the 1980s. Ramesh Madhavan, a veteran online writer kicks off with this amazing post on culture, food and the immigrant experience.

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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Photoblogging Sarajevo

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Bosnia Herzegovina

A restored building in Sarajevo - by Seesaw/Quod/Zdenka Seesaw (aka Quod, aka Zdenka) has been blogging about the Balkans for a year and a half at Balkan-Scissors. Here's how she...

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Kurdistance:

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

Normally I try to find a reoccurring theme for my weeklies, however this week turned out to be a bit of a Kurdish hodge-podge. Sami from Iraqi Thoughts writes some...

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Updates from 21 June 2006

Pari at Daisyinthesdust blog is talking about her Bollywood dancing experience. “Thoughts of performing the kinds of dance moves I see in Bollywood movies threatened to leave me in hysterics. I like the style as it is carefree and leaves a lot to self-expression rather than precision. Trouble is that my dance is as expressive as gravel.”

• Preetam Rai

Philippines

Dr. Emer at parallel universes blog is asking Filipino couple who are having a hard time having children to relax. The blogger is pointing to a news article that claims that relaxing and lowering stress helps. The bloggers also talks about the high fertility rate in the Philippines. A comment on the post suggests “getting pregnant is not the only way to have children. there are already enough children existing. i guess instead of trying IVF, people should also be encouraged to warm up to the idea of adoption”

• Preetam Rai

Thailand

Our Local Style in Brunei compares two news stories relating to the royalty in two South East Asian countries - one from Thailand where the people are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the King's rune and another from Brunei where three locals are facing a charge of sedition for using images of members of the royal family in a computer generated video clip.

• Preetam Rai

Armenia

Christian Garbis offers random photos from Yerevan, many of which are of old buildings set for demolition.

• Nathan Hamm

Malaysia

Former Malaysian prime-minister Mahathir is criticising the policies of the current prime minister Badawi (also known as Pak Lah). Nik Nazmi in Malaysia talks about continuing the reforms and forging consensus among Malaysians. He says “Going back entirely to the Dr. M model however is economically unsustainable, and will be a step back politically”

• Preetam Rai

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...