Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 February 24

24 February 2007

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Stories from 24 February 2007

Love troubles female blogger; floods, politics and petty jobs worry Malawians

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

Based in the UK and studying Information Systems, Mercy Gondwe might be the only female Malawian blogger noted so far. While she has not been active she woke up on...

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Free Kareem: The Caribbean joins in

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Middle East & North Africa, Caribbean

The Caribbean blogosphere tends to focus on internal matters, but the plight of Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Suleiman struck a chord nevertheless with a few bloggers, including Cuban-American journalist Marc...

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Free Kareem: Lusophone Blogs Join the Crusade

Written by Jose Murilo · Middle East & North Africa, Latin America

As soon as the information about the verdict circulated on the net, Portuguese posts commenting the 4 year in prison sentence given to blogger Abdel Kareem Suleiman started to appear....

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Bahrain: ‘Terrorist Plot' Sparks Cynicism

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Following a controversial news report about the discovery of a ‘terrorist training camp' in one of Bahrain's Shi'a villages, Bani Jamra, Bahrain's ‘blogfather' Mahmood Al Yousif writes a sarcastic post...

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Taiwan: Flying Saucer Houses

Written by Portnoy Zheng · East Asia

Photographed by CantikFoto In Green Bay, Taipei County, there are some abandoned houses. Due to their appearance, they have been named ‘flying saucer houses' by many people in that area....

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Kazakhstan, the Soviet: “Stalinkas” and “Khrushchevkas”, Afghanistan and the Red Army Holiday

Written by Leila Tanayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

Save the Houses Photo by Adam Kesher Blogger Adam Kesher is displeased: the “Stalin's” house next to his own is going to be replaced by a new fancy building. These...

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Updates from 24 February 2007

Mexico

Campamento Cucapá has published a new video documentary with English subtitles that “tells the story the Cucapá, an Indigenous people of Mexicali, who have been denied fishing permits, even though they have been fishing in their valley for over 9,000 years.”

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

While rising flood waters threaten the northeast province of Beni, Carlos Gustavo Machicado Salas describes the Carnival celebration in Oruro as one of the best in the world.

• David Sasaki

Paraguay

Ben Dangl on Ciudad del Este, Paraguay: “most of the cars had tinted windows, the private security in front of shops had loaded guns, and the streets were as full of conspiracies and rumors as pirated DVDs and sunglasses. Real guns and fake musical condoms were also for sale in the city’s humid, market streets. Though Paraguay lacks access to the sea, it contains various oceans inside its borders – oceans of soy crops. The pesticides used in this booming industry give local campesinos headaches, cancer and birth defects.”

• David Sasaki

Colombia

It is the 40th anniversary of Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad, described here by Posthegemony as “a long, sprawling novel that lacks much in the way of a conventional plot. Rather, it is full of events and incidents, digressions and flashbacks or flashforwards, not least the famous flashforward with which the book opens …”

• David Sasaki

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...