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4 July 2006

Daily archive · 7 posts

Stories from 4 July 2006

Mexico's 2006 Elections

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

In what has already been a year of crucial and close elections throughout Latin America, one would think that Mexico's day at the polls would be treated by bloggers as...

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Sounds of Africa

Written by Obi · Sub-Saharan Africa

As you read this the World Cup is in it's Semi Final stages with Italy knocking the host Germany out. So far it has been a wonderful festival of football...

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Russia: State Duma Deputy's Journal

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Yevgeniy Roizman, 43, is more than just a Russian State Duma deputy. He is also the founder of Russia's only privately-owned religious icon museum (called Nevyanskaya Ikona, 600 works); has...

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Pakistan: Blog-o-timewarp

Written by Omer Alvie · South Asia

I write to you this week from the future. This post which was due about three weeks back is actually being written on time, somewhere around the 2nd week of...

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Polish Blogosphere Update

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

With missionary zeal The Poland Pulse blogs about the latest English camps coming to Poland. By no means clandestine, the camp project to convert Catholic women to a less formalistic...

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Manila flip-flops on sex education

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Education officials of the Philippines decided to pull-out modules on sex education after the powerful Catholic Church opposed the teaching of sex in schools.

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The Global Voices Show #3

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

The third episode of the Global Voices Show is here! In this edition we feature excerpts from the following podcasts: PodView (Podbazaar) (India) Viloria.com Pinoy Podcast (Philippines) Tango City Tour...

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Updates from 4 July 2006

Japan

David Weber from Japundit blogs about the Kamogawa Odori which is a geisha dance performance presented in the late spring in the Pontocho district of Kyoto (with many photos).

• Oiwan Lam

Japan

Ben Ng blogs about the free use practice and logo in Japan and hope that Hong Kong can take the experience from Japan to balance between intellectual property rights and sharing of knowledges (zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Taiwan (ROC)

A citizen reporter from Taiwan blogs about his experience on the July 1st demonstration this year in InMediaHK. The writer has joined the July 1st rally for three years hoping to find out what is the meaning of citizen movement in Hong Kong and the substance of local social movement apart from universal suffrage. He observes that the demonstrators had strong sentiment against the bureaucratic government but the “anti-” stand may result in an “dis-identification” process (zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Makzhou in Human-error processor blogs about his experience in body check, his package was 275 yuan (around USD35) and there was a long queue. During his body check, he found out that the hospital only received 10% of its revenue from the government (zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Colombia

Andrés Duque has a thorough summary of pride parades from around Latin America, including a disturbed observation of the use of blackface imagery in Colombia.

• David Sasaki