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2 February 2007

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Stories from 2 February 2007

Requiem for a Blogger: Life and death issues from beyond the Portuguese keyboard

“Oxalis” by Poesie The year of 2007 started with the Lusosphere being surprised by the announcement of the death of a well known blogger. MEG [Maria Elisa Guimarães] became famous...

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Video from Benin: Fete des Peuples

Written by Alice Backer · Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin Fete des peuples chap 10 LaFlammeTV posted this video on DailyMotion of this month's Fete des Peuples [Peoples' Celebration], an event that took place in Cotonou, Benin adding: La...

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A Day in Bahrain: Political Activists Arrested and Released

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Bahrain sure feels it needs to stir up internal politics to keep up with the Joneses. The subtle infighting between its Sunni/Shia population just...

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Russia: Photo-Marathon For Children With Cancer

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

On Jan. 27, 2007, the third annual photo-marathon was held in one of the wards (Onco-Haematology 16) of the Children’s Clinical Hospital in Moscow. It was organized by the International...

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Fairly tale in Chile: Small Giant

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

The famous French “Small Giant” arrived to Santiago, Chile. Many citizens gathere to see this in the centre of the capital. Claudia (ES) introduces us to the concept: Cuenta la...

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Cambodia: Be the first to tell

Written by Tharum Bun · East Asia

Too often, most people, want to be the first to be informed of events and situation happening around them or anywhere else in the other of parts of the world....

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Hong Kong: I'll get the job done

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Donald Tsang has finally launched his election campaign for the Chief Executive (2007-2012). As the new Chief Executive (CE) would be selected by 800 selective committee members dominated by pro-China...

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Updates from 2 February 2007

Singapore

Metroblogging Bangkok describes the event that caused the latest sporting rift between Thailand and Singapore.

• Preetam Rai

Algeria

Algerian blogger Lameen Souag examines the definition of the word black in the Songhay language, which is spoken in and around Timbuktu and in the Sahara.
“It would be interesting to examine the connotations of “black” in more languages,” he writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

Bahrain Rants encourages readers to spend their weekend slipping in new words into their conversations. This weekends gems are: Flummery, Maven and Vamoose.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Mexico

Tim's El Salvador Blog takes a look at a variety of economic news stories focused on El Salvador including the rise in corn prices. That rise is also affecting Mexico, writes radio host Ana Maria Salazar: “The Governor of the Bank of Mexico, Guillermo Ortiz Martínez, said that an emergency salary rise and controlling prices do NOT solve the problem of the price hikes on basic foodstuffs. On the contrary, that would create a battle between prices and salaries.”

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Miguel Octavio, who is now also publishing selected posts in Spanish, writes gloomily of the so-called “enabling law”: “Two days ago the Deputies of the National Assembly simply gave up their jobs and their own mandate in order to enable Hugo Chavez to rule by decree for an unheard of period of 18 months in areas that not even the Deputies knew about in detail the day they voted on it. It was indeed a sad day for democracy and freedom in Venezuela.” Fellow opposition blogger Daniel Duquenal adds, “As of today no man in Venezuelan history will have had as much power, as much discretionary power that is, with the possible exception of Juan Vicente Gomez.” Oil Wars, on the other hand, inspires a novel-length comment thread with his post “Why Chavez is so loved.” And finally, Richard Gott's argument that “Venezeula's ‘enabling' legislation is more likely to prove a path to reform than a road to dictatorship.”

• 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...