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Myath Thura explains why the posts on the blogger's Burmese blog always has a translation in English. “Whether you are writing a web site, or writing a Blog, it is not very Google friendly to write it in Myanmar (Burmese). Google doesn't understand Myanmar, and doesn't index web pages in Myanmar. So, it is always a good idea to write every article in both Myanmar and English.”
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Storify user @Jaemin posted a review on the President's Barber, a movie which well depicted how ordinary people's lives suffered under a dictatorial military regime back in the 1970s and 80s in South Korea.
An atheist blogger who works as an English teacher in South Korea, Chris Hallquist wrote about some efforts made to strip evolution out of science textbooks. Based on his experience in South Korea which he defines as ‘a pretty secular country', the blogger commented on the Christian organizations' influence on publishers.
Again, a Chinese man was brutally killed on May 15 by dipper when he tried to stop his home from being razed by the government-employed demolition team in Heilongjiang province. (Ministry of Tofu has translated the news.)
Jennifer Cheung from China Labour Bulletin introduces how workers in China make use of micro-blog to tell their stories in different artistic forms.
CJMyanmar uploaded photos of the protest against the electricity shortage in Mandalay, the second largest city of Myanmar. Hundreds who joined the activity lighted candles and peacefully protested in front of the government office of Electricity Supply and Chinese Embassy.
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Oh, yes ok, let’s all forget our languages. To be a real Global Voice, one must speak English… Why don’t you learn other languages, native English speakers? It’s better to teach Google to speak any language than to tell people that their languages are useless.
Be a Global Voice, write in as many languages as you can! The only English world is not my world. Don’t let it to be yours.
You can use the language options of the http protocol to serve a small english translation if a server explicitly request “english”. Or cou can use English in the separate information you abstract specially for google. Or in the abstract of your RSS feed. There are A LOT of solutions.