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11 November 2006

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Stories from 11 November 2006

Bloggers on the UN resolution condemning the US embargo against Cuba

Written by Carlos Gradaille · Latin America

On November 8, the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution aimed at condemning the US embargo against Cuba. Since then, bloggers have been actively sharing their opinions on...

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The Week That Was in Bahrain

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

With the Godfather of Bahraini bloggers Mahmood Al Yousif out of the way and sick in hospital - possibly recuperating from his head-on collision with authorities over the blocking of...

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Holding the line for Internet freedoms in Brazilian Cyberspace

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

The Brazilian cyberspace was shaken this week by the announcement of a ‘Digital Crimes Bill' under consideration at the Senate's Constitution and Justice Commission. Disclosing just one item in the...

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Updates from 11 November 2006

Indonesia

The bloggers at Indonesia Anonymus are contemplating the topics the Indonesians want to discuss with American President George Bush and they seem to be running short of ideas.

• Preetam Rai

Republic of Congo

Sanaga Peregrinations announces (Fr) that the prestigious literary Renaudot Prize was awarded to Congolese novelist Alain Mabanckou for his novel Memoires de Porc-Epic [Porcupine Memories]. Explains the blog: “Fine storyteller, Mabanckou takes the voice of a porcupine who confides in his friend the baobab and tells him of his life alongside his master Kibandi to whom he plays bad cop, occasionally committing murder.” The novel is written without punctuation.

• Alice Backer

Niger

On Thursday, Le Pangolin posted that (Fr) Claude Quemar, Secretary of CADTM France [Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt] was arrested in Niger presumably for participating in the Niger Social Forum. Today the blog announces that the activist was released last night but with “obligation to leave Niger … CADTM categorically opposes the expulsion and will continue … its fight to elaborate alternatives to the dominant economic model served by the authorities of Niger.”

• Alice Backer

Yemen

Tout Haiti Blog points to (Fr) a Haitian news article on UNDP's latest human development country rankings stating: “The group of countries with weak human development only contains two non-African countries: Yemen and Haiti.”

• Alice Backer

Ideas

Afro-Caribbean musician Rasheed Ali ponders the question: what is the concept of fine art in Africa? “For western thinkers and art collectors there may be a sense that these arts pieces are devalued by there sameness. Yet upon further examination we find that the style of many art pieces has been ritiualized over time.”

• Georgia Popplewell

Malaysia

Ooi Boon-Leong writes another episode of his blog-memoir of Japanese occupation of Malaya during the World War 2. “It was a Japanese school in that it taught us the Japanese language, arithmetic and drawing. There were about 40 Chinese boys in a class and the form master was also a Chinese. There were other teachers who were Indians, a Sikh (the locals) and a Japanese woman. I later found out that the locals had been teachers in English schools before the coming of the Japanese. They must have taken a crash course in Japanese to teach Japanese. Later on after the Occupation they went back to teach in English schools.”

• Preetam Rai

Cambodia

The filmmakers writing the lianlian blog take an unusual trip in Cambodia. “But then, Aki Ra invited us to join him on a demining expedition. The offer caught us off-guard. Triggered long, heated discussions and caused a few sleepless nights. How dangerous exactly, was a minefield? Did we really need the footage?”

• Preetam Rai

Indonesia

Indinesia Matters reports that a bomb exploded in a fast food restaurant in Jakarta this morning. “The low-explosive bomb went off at the Kramat Jati Indah plaza branch of the American fast food chain in east Jakarta at about 13.00 today. One person, with the intitials MN, was hurt, he being the person who carried the bomb into the restaurant.”

• Preetam Rai

Sri Lanka

Transcurrents.com on the escalating conflict in Sri Lanka. “The coastal village of Kathiraweli in the Eastern district of Batticaloa was the scene of Sri Lanka’s latest massacre of innocents in its on going ethnic conflict.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Nepal

A celebratory tone to events in Nepal, in the aftermath of the agreement being signed between the Ruling Alliance and the Maoists. Photographs at United We Blog! “Today’s rallies in Kathmandu were part of nationwide celebrations lauding the historic pact between the ruling Seven Party Alliance and the CPN Maoist. The mass meeting was medium sized and many school students were used in the rallies.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Russia: The RuNet's Top 10 Political Slang Words

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...