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16 October 2006

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 16 October 2006

Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

Local Dancers in Poland's Lake District (Mazury) prepare for Sieja (kind of fish) Fish Festival - by Embe, WarsawDaily Perhaps a Christmas footballing miracle has come early, as Kinuk reports...

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Arabisc: Unemployment, personal attacks and the birth of a new author

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Like many parts of the modern world, unemployment is a plague attacking Arab countries. Anonymous blogger Alloush writes about a discovery he made while surfing the world wide web. The...

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Sewell, Chile: World Heritage Town

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Photo by Mali Sewell is located at an altitude of over 2,000 metres in the Andes mountains. A copper mining town, this year UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site....

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Voices from Zimbabwe

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

Global Voices has posted a harrowing video documenting the brutal beatings suffered by worker's union demonstrators recently. Read the post and watch the video here. Debate surrounding a new law,...

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Updates from 16 October 2006

Joel Martinsen in DANWEI puts together some discussions about a recent skin-care adverstisment with the actress' son saying that he wants to marry his mother when he gets old. It results in a debate whether the ad has crossed the line of social standard. Joel also translated a post from Southern Metropolis Weekly.

• Oiwan Lam

China

The opposite end of China puts together some Youtube videos on the recent shooting of Tibetian refugees at the Nepal border by the China PLA.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Diligence China points out that when local software China Star sells at 10RMB while Microsoft Window sells at 500RMB, without piracy, Microsoft won't have a market share like today: Imagine what China’s software industry might look like if piracy hadn’t killed off a viable, home-grown alternative to Microsoft?

• Oiwan Lam

China

In order to prepare for the Olympic, the Beijing city has to double check its English signposts and other instructions. Sohoxiaobao has posted some translation jokes(zh): “folk culture village” is translated into “racist park”; a fired chicken dish is translated into “government abuse chicken”; and the word “dry” in Chinese is often translated into “fxxk”!

• Oiwan Lam

China

Andrew Lih shows the distribution of wikipedia's access in China in a chart form.

• Oiwan Lam

South Korea

Days in Daechuri has the latest update on the anti US military base in Pyongtaek, independent journalists were intimidated by local thugs.

• Oiwan Lam

Guadeloupe

Flying in the face of Guadeloupe's status as a French Overseas Department, Convention pour une Guadeloupe Nouvelle writes (Fr): “A nation must live its past in order to be inspired by it. … We will [therefore] celebrate the birth of the Guadeloupean nation in October. It is indeed during the months of October and November 1801 that for the first time, after the long night of slavery, Guadeloupeans discovered that they are a people and rejected the colonial slave system. The Guadeloupean army seized power on October 21, 1801 and designated … an interim government. We demand that all the heros of the time be treated with pomp and that a national mausoleum be erected.”

• Alice Backer

Barbados

Barbados Free Press is optimistic about the Barbados Environment Minister's attendance at a UN conference in China.

• Georgia Popplewell

Trinidad & Tobago

Guadeloupe Attitude writes (Fr): “Patrick Verdol, Livio Lison and Bella Mado are the 3 Guadeloupeans chosen by the seven Guadeloupean Rotary Clubs to participate in the 2006 RYLA of District 7030 … Chosen by the clubs and districts for their potential leadership, youth aged 14 to 30, attend all expenses paid seminars, camps or workshops about developing leadership and knowledge.”

• Alice Backer

Guyana

Guyana-Gyal walks down to the sea — “just to see what I could see” — and has an encounter with Guyanese music star Eddie Grant that makes her ponder the true meaning of “development”.

• Nicholas Laughlin