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The first week of August in El Salvador is a week for vacation. In Spanish, El Salvador means “the Savior” and nothing gets done as this historically Roman Catholic country...
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In Consent of the Networked, internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon argues that the purpose of technology is to serve humanity, not the other way around. It’s time to wake up and act before the reversal becomes permanent.
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Haftan has published a link to a photo group exhibition about Khorramshahr 18 years after the Iran-Iraq War. Khorramshahr had been destroyed during the war. There are 32 photos available online .
Parsikhan reports that a seminar was held in Tehran to commemorate 100th year of Iranian Constitutional Revolution. According to the blogger, Mohammad Khatami, former President was first speaker of this seminar [Fa]. Several other reformist politicians took part in this conference.
Omid Memarian, blogger & journalist reports that Akbar Ganji, dissident journalist will talk about Gender Apartheid in Iran in UC Berkeley in USA.
Itsthefinalword looks at the changing face of southern Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Comment left by a visitors sums up the change “The area looks ritzy. Even in my wildest dreams, at the time my family left the city at the conclusion of the war, I cannot imagine Saigon would look like this 36 years later. It is just unbelievable how things can change in just 3 decades. I hope w/all the economic progress, Saigon can still retains its soul.”
Smoot blogs about a article going around Singapore's online space about the life in the 1980s Singapore.
Blogger Kwayteowman tackes on the concerns expressed by some on the keenness of many younger Singaporeans to emigrate to other countries.
The blogger at Touched by an Angel looks at alcoholism in Philippines. “The effects of alcoholism are easily shown in the sensational section of the local TV news. How often do you see wives beaten up by their husbands? Or children being sexually abused by their biological fathers? What about that actor caught for drunk driving? Though I don’t have the statistics right now, I bet there are cases of drunk -related accidents or physical abuse.”
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...