Global Voices Online

Marginal Revolutions reports about the vigilante militias that allegedly have taken over Rio de Janeiro slums, ruling as feudal lords and imposing taxes, as a result of the collapse of legal policing in these areas.

Chennette's mother prepares doubles, a popular Trinidadian street food, and Chennette posts the recipe and link to the Flickr photoset documenting the process.

Trinidad blogger Jeremy Taylor assesses 2006 and makes a few predictions for 2007, among them, that “electioneering will start in the US even earlier than usual,” the death of Fidel Castro and a win for Australia in the Cricket World Cup.

Southern Metropolis Weekly devotes the final Life issue of 2006 to spoofing this year's major news stories - DANWEI has translated the table of content and collected relevant resources.

Joel Marinsen in DANWEI translates a parody re-posted from Zhang Rui's blog about banning old and middle-aged from driving in the street starting on 1 January 2007.

ESWN puts together reports concerning Yu Shyi-kun, the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, order that all DPP central members shall not answer questions from the newspaper China Times anymore.

Michael Turton in the View from Taiwan disagrees with ESWN's presentation by pointing that China Times is a pro-Blue paper.

Alexpappas from Japundit explains the latest policy that made mandatory for foreign nationals to report their employment status to authorities.

Lee blogs about the business concerning dogs (as pet) in Japan.

Gerry-Bevers from Occidentalism was informed by the university for ending his contract because of his active blogging about Dokdo's history and Korea and Japan territorial debate. The letter said: “I think there is little doubt that the school made this decision because of the Dokdo problem.”