Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2006 September 27

27 September 2006

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Stories from 27 September 2006

Tunisia: Opening prisons to the world

Written by Sameer Padania · Middle East & North Africa

At this site, I’m trying to show videos that show or speak about human rights abuses, and – as in the Tunisian video above - the impact of human rights...

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Posts from Peru

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

This time it is three rather than two weekly summaries from the guys at Perú Político: Weekly Chronicle (September 6 to the 12) and Weekly Chronicle (September 13 - 19)...

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Kurdistance

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa, Central Asia & Caucasus

Onnik Krikorian from Oneworld Multimedia has written a series of wonderful articles about the Yezidis, ethnic Kurds, who live in Georgia and Armenia. Traditionally, information gathered about the Yezidis focus...

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Ethiopian bloggers rally to save controversial bill

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia’s diaspora bloggers are flexing their political muscles in a bid to save a controversial bill they claim has been blocked in the US Congress. The highly-politicised groups of Ethiopian...

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China: spoofing Confucius

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

The new, standardized statue of Confucius was unveiled on September 23 by the China Confucius Institute. Here are some reactions from the blogsphere: Xiong pei-yun points out that the standarization...

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Updates from 27 September 2006

Malaysia

Shianux writes about the lack of basic economics knowledge among the UMNO political party members in Malaysian province of Johor. Johor is the province that borders Singapore. Johor UMNO is asking the federal government to cancel all projects like the proposed bullet train between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore that might (according to Johor UMNO) benefit Singapore more. The blogger feels that Johor UMNO is being selfish as it fears that Johor would loose if other parts of Malaysia has direct transport links to Singapore.

• Preetam Rai

Zhao mu blogs about a debate between education department and media workers. On September 25, the spokes person of education department openly criticized that the Chinese media is ignorant. The response of course is “which is more ignorant? education department or media?” (zh)

• Oiwan Lam