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12 February 2007

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Stories from 12 February 2007

Russia: Subway Lezginka

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

A month ago, YouTube user KABARDINEC ('a Kabardian‘) posted three rather odd videos of two inspired young men dancing Lezginka at a subway station (here and here) and inside a...

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Bangladesh: Can the power of one save the nation?

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

The hottest topic in Bangladesh now is that the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus has expressed his intention to start a political party and run for the next election. In...

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Arabisc: Jordanian MPs Having a Ball!

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Jordanian blogger Batir Wardam doesn't mince his words when he says that Jordan's Members of Parliament are in for a great weekend. After all, for a few hours of work,...

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Recife, Brazil: Trumpeting 100 Years of Frevo, and Musical Innovation on the Eve of Carnival

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

Recife is the capital city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast of Brazil. The pulse of Carnival has been growing in a crescendo in recent days, justly honoring...

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Touring Libyan Blogs

Written by Fozia Mohamed · Middle East & North Africa

The discussion continues from last week again on AngloLibyan who has brought up the topic of the Libyan AIDS stricken children as an offshoot of the previous week’s discussion about...

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Updates from 12 February 2007

Japan

James from Japan Probe blogs about the anti-whaling action with a youtube video taken from the perspectives of Japanese whalers.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Chiao blogs a photo taken outside a Beijing bar which listed out various regulations, including: don't shit in our tiolet but U can pee…

• Oiwan Lam

Li Yinhe comments that the word “自由” (liberal and freedom) is too negative in China because of various political campaign agains “liberalism”. She hopes people can slowly make it a positive term (zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Vietnam

Malaysian blogger Jeff Ooi has a post on Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung participating in an online chat with the public. The primeminister took on questions on topics such as press freedom, the Vietnam War and government seizure of farmers' land for development.”

• Preetam Rai

Kuwait

A new Arabic version of Richard III is being staged by a Kuwaiti troupe at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon from 8 - 17 February 2007, says Kuwait blogger Mama Fusla. Set in the contemporary Arab world, this production of Richard III unfolds within the hothouse, feudal atmosphere of desert palaces in an oil-rich kingdom, she writes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

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...