4 January 2007
Stories from 4 January 2007
Ukraine: Thoughts on Staying and Leaving
LJ user chio - of Simferopol, Crimea - writes (RUS): On life A friend came for a visit recently - he had emigrated to New Zealand some five years ago...
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LJ user chio - of Simferopol, Crimea - writes (RUS): On life A friend came for a visit recently - he had emigrated to New Zealand some five years ago...
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A post by Courtney Henry on the Talk Antigua blog expressing serious doubts about the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and its usefulness to Antigua sparks off a lively comment thread.
Guangzhou city mayor recently claimed that, according to local household registration data, the GDP per capita will be over US$10,000 this year. William long notices that such claim is a kind of “impractical boasting” (zh).
Frank Yu from One Billion users comments on the recent McDonald's poster featuring Yao Ming with horns with a subtitle: “beef makes you strong”, but the whole image conveys a totally different message to foreigners:
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist has written a review on the recent movie: curse of the golden flower.
Nazarian writes about hearing country music while listening to Voice of America as a child in Armenia and not understanding what it was or who listened to it until living in the United States two decades later.
Leila surveys the opinions of public figures regarding 2006 in Kazakhstan at neweurasia.
Registan.net discusses “sacred Turkmen traditions” (which are, in actuality, policy stances but called such in homage to the former president's constant citing of tradition in lawmaking) that the interim president is pledging to keep and, in welcome news, break.
According to Webna,a blog service provider,Mihan, announced the authorities asked them to filter about 597 blogs at the same time [Fa].
Sotho writes a short, but thought provoking piece titled, Castrating Africa: Pascal Sevran is a French TV host. In his latest book, “Le Privilège des Jonquilles,” he says, “The black man’s dick is responsible for hunger in Africa.”
Tunisian blogger Sami Ben Gharbia on the Global Voices summit recently held in Delhi, India (Fr): “A will to build a francophone version of Global Voices and to spread the Global Voices China experiment was expressed. The first objective consists in translating in French what is written in English on GV … That initiative, approved by the two co-founders of GV, Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca McKinnon was proposed by Alice Backer, Jennifer Brea and myself. We hope to have an independent space soon, something along the lines of francophonie.globalvoices.org …”
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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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...