Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 January 18

18 January 2007

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Stories from 18 January 2007

Chilean Bloggers on Bolivia’s Chaos

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Chilean Bloggers are concerned with what is happening in Bolivia. As Tomás Bradanovic (ES) explains: La horrible situación por la que está atravesando Bolivia tiene en su base un enorme...

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Image from French Guiana: Mind Your Kids

Written by Alice Backer · Caribbean

From the French Guiana forest, this sign captured by Photoblog sur la Guyane Francaise reads (Fr): “Look after your kids or … keep them on a leash.”

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Ahmadinejad Goes to Latin America

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iranian bloggers discussed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trip to Latin America and his growing problems at home. Nikahang, a leading cartoonist and blogger, takes on Ahmadjnejad nuclear's policy Rozmaregi [Fa]...

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Lebanon: A Bouquet of Topics

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

A variety of subjects were brought up in the Lebanese blogosphere this week. Following are some of the topics with links to selected posts about each. Hope you enjoy reading...

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Malaysia: Bloggers Sued

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

Malaysian blogosphere is protesting the defamation proceding launched by the New Straits Times Press (NSTP) against two bloggers - Jeff Ooi who writes Screenshots and Ahirudin Atan who writes at...

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The Blogospheres on Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, Bullying and Racism

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia, Western Europe

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Updates from 18 January 2007

Bolivia

Francisco Giglio has posted photos from the Casa de la Culture in La Paz by a group of female anarchist artists called Mujeres Creando (”Women Creating”) protesting Evo Morales' government. Rosario Lizana has transcribed the text [ES] from one of the photographs.

• David Sasaki

Cambodia

Vutha in Cambodia highlights the problems faced by rape victims and blogs about some recommendations to help prevent rapes.

• Preetam Rai

Vietnam

SaigonNezumi has some pictures of night time Saigon and he feels that Saigon's nightscene is no different from any big western city. Saigon also known as Ho Chi Minh City is Vietnam's commercial hub and one of the fastest growing cities in Asia.

• Preetam Rai

Myanmar (Burma)

The Burmese authorities have accuses pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi of tax evasion. The Yangoon Thublog is amused at this accusation on the leader who is currently under house arrest. The blogger conjures up a scenario on how the authorities came up with this seemingly absurd accusation.

• Preetam Rai

Indonesia

Investigators are still trying to figure out the cause of the Adam Air's plane earlier this month. Indonesia Matters looks at the possible scenarios.

• Preetam Rai

Mexico

Reflecting on Haiti's recent defeat at the hands of the Trinidad & Tobago soccer/football team, Collectif Haiti de Provence writes (Fr): “Yes, formerly our regional rivals had names like Mexico. Today we align with difficulty with nations where soccer/football has no popularity and hence no budget: Cuba, Martinique, Dominican Republic. … We must continue working hard to recuperate the time we have lost. … We have what matters most: talent!”

• Alice Backer

Nepal

United We Blog! has a great photo post on the First Day of Arms Management. “Photographs of the first day of registration and storage of weapons and registration of Maoist combatants, at the Maoist 3rd Divisional cantonment site in Chitwan, Nepal on 17 January 2006.”

• Neha Viswanathan

India

At digg.com, a user links to the President of India's question at Yahoo! Answers. Watch out for the interesting discussion at digg, where a wide range of issues - including Bush, internet penetration in India, efforts to reach out by the government etc. are raised.

• Neha Viswanathan

Bangladesh

An ancient symbol appears to forever lose its meaning because of the Nazi connection. Inspirations and Creative Thoughts on the Swastika. “European Union is planning to ban the symbol of Swastika, infamously used by the Nazi. But hindus are opposing the move because despite its being adopted as symbol of Nazism, it is one of the most ancient and sacred symbol in Dharmic religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Bangladesh

Drishtipat on street vendors being evicted and if the government had given any thought to their livelihood. “Should the authority have thought of some alternative for these people with day to day incomes?”

• 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...