Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 January 09

9 January 2007

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Stories from 9 January 2007

Peru: Most Popular Blogs of 2006

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

Plaza de Armas at Christmas Marking the end of 2006, a few bloggers took up the task of pointing out what might be the most remarkable Peruvian weblogs of the...

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Lebanon: Politics of Economy

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

The Lebanese blogosphere seems to be in a semi-lull this week. Nevertheless some bloggers reflected on topics such as the theory of evolution, the economical situation in Lebanon and the...

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Kazakhstan: Modern Art

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

Daniel Gulegos is an American artist who is temporary in Almaty, Kazakhstan and he blogs at Travelpod. While in Kazakhstan, Daniel explores the Kazakh contemporary art, meeting and collaborating with...

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Bangladesh: Christmas & Eid celebrations, cold days and heated up politics

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

Like any other country Christmas was celebrated in Bangladesh with much enthusiasm. Tom of Bangladesh Barta shares his experience of celebrating Christmas in Bangladesh. Being a majority Muslim country should...

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Updates from 9 January 2007

Bahamas

Bahamians Larry Smith and Lynn Sweeting offer two perspectives on the Bahamian Christmas-time festival of Junkanoo.

• Georgia Popplewell

Antigua and Barbuda

“Annoyed”, writing at the Talk Antigua blog, has serious reservations about the attention showered by Antigua upon Michael Perham, the 14-year old British boy who sailed solo across the Atlantic England to Antigua: “I do agree he put the country’s name in the guinness book of world records again. But what about our own local youth that have done commendable things?”

• Georgia Popplewell

Sri Lanka

Groundviews has some insights about the Muslim community in Sri Lanka. “At the same time the Sri lankan government is going to enroll 3,000 Muslim people into the army regiment under a Muslim regiment”

• Neha Viswanathan

Nepal

The recent cold wave in Nepal meant hard times for many people. More at United We Blog! - “Four more people in Siraha died today due to the cold wave that has hit the Terai region hard in the last few days.”

• Neha Viswanathan

India

Kalpana Sahni writes on borders, culture and shared history. “These lines divide families living on either side of a river or they divide linguistic groups (the Punjabis, Kashmiris and Bengalis). While politicians and the military debate and argue over borders, there is another deeper reality that defies these divides.”

• Neha Viswanathan

India

~Kashmir~ on the mess that is Jammu and Kashmir's Tourism Department. “The Jammu and Kashmir Tourism will do just one thing: it will speed Kashmir’s ecological destruction because of its failure to embrace the concept of eco-tourism.”

• Neha Viswanathan

India

Goa Blog has a comprehensive post on Goa's local drink - Feni. “And the reason is not difficult to understand because feni is the name of the most popular local drink among hard drinks.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Mexico

“As new municipal and state governments took office in early December and this month, the many and various mayors and their staffs began taking inventories of what they had inherited from their preceeding municipal governments. It is apparently not a pretty picture” writes Oaxaca-based Mark in Mexico who focuses on the debt inherited by municipal governments in the state of Jalisco.

• David Sasaki

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...