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21 March 2007

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Stories from 21 March 2007

China: Book banned prior to printing

Prior to a recent reprinting, ‘A Narrow Escape From Death: My ‘Right-wing' Life', a book from retired Xinhua journalist Dai Huang was banned from being published by order of China's...

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German “Open Music” Band Dedicates a Concert for Peru

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

[Editors Note: The following post originally appeared on the weblog of Creative Commons Peru and was translated into english by Juliana Rincón Parra. We've already seen a rural Ecuadorean “techno-folklorist”...

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Kurdistance: Newroz

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

The vernal equinox marks the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of the “New Year” or Newroz for the Kurdish people. The holiday is not limited...

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Arabisc: A Mysterious Bug Gnawing at Middle Eastern Bloggers

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Something is amiss on the Middle Eastern blogging scene .. and computers and modern technology are to blame. In addition to trouble with the law in their countries, which are...

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India: New Year Celebrations

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

New Year in March you ask? Well, yes in certain parts of India it the start of a new year since they follow a different calendar and not the Gregorian...

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Sudan: ICC on War Crimes in Darfur, USS Cole, Funky Hairstyle & More

Written by SudaneseDrima · Sub-Saharan Africa

There has been quite a lot of action in the Sudanese blogosphere during the past 3 weeks. We'll start with the International Criminal Court's announcement which named 2 suspects accused...

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Updates from 21 March 2007

Algeria

The blog of Convergence Républicaine pour l'Instauration de la Démocratie en Mauritanie (CRIDEM) points to a La Tribune d'Algérie article stating [Fr]: “Long considered a back-country, Mauritania just proved to its neighbors and to the world that when it comes to democracy, the country can now be an example. Never has an Arab country held a second round in a presidential election. Among the 19 candidates running, the two ahead are Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallah and Ahmed Ould Daddah. With respectively 26 and 25% of the vote, they will run again on March 25.”

• Alice Backer

Armenia

Armenian Blog Review reports on various developments in the Armenian economy, including a natural gas pipeline linking Iran and Armenia and poor localization for Windows XP, as discussed on Armenian blogs.

• Nathan Hamm

Morocco

Chadstoune is happy Moroccan band Darga and Spanish band El Bicho will be performing in Casablanca on April 1. Says the blogger: Says the blogger [Fr}: “El Bicho is one of the best bets of flamenco fusion based on daring mix of music! ” and “Darga is a group united by its love of music and conscious of the role that youth must play in the country's social dynamic”

• Alice Backer

Afghanistan

Safrang writes that spring has become associated with renewed fighting in Afghanistan in recent years and takes the liberty of changing an old folk song associated with Nowrouz (the holiday celebrated on the first day of spring) to urge a different mullah to come join the festivities.

• Nathan Hamm