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2 April 2007

Daily archive · 9 posts

Stories from 2 April 2007

Internet and Philippine elections

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Statistics vary on the actual number of internet users in the Philippines. It may range from as low as nine million to a high number of thirty-five million users. This...

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China: Persecuting economic crimes

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Capitalism is now officially approved at the Party level, but with otherwise law-abiding small-scale sidewalk sellers nation-wide operating in constant fear and in conflict with (photos) the chengguan (more photos),...

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Exploring Ecuador's Cyber-South

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

Photograph of Loja, Ecuador by Milton Ramirez Ecuador is a country with low access to the Internet and so most Ecuadorian netizens must save enough money to use an Internet...

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Iran: Looking at the Detained British Sailors' Crisis Differently

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

The Iran-UK maritime crisis, which erupted after the arrest of 15 British sailors by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf on March 23, has become one of the top stories...

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Arabisc: Why People Are Different; Women Wear the Hijab and Flickr is Banned!

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

In today's quick tour of Arabic blogs, we will make three stops. Our first is in Yemen, where we see a blogger's take on why people are born different from...

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Kuwait: What Bloggers Think of the New Government?

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

After a long deliberation, Kuwait announced the formation of a new Government, giving enough material for bloggers to mull on. Blogger Zaydoun wonders what all the commotion is about. He...

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Updates from 2 April 2007

Tunisia

Tunisian blogger Astrubal writes[Fr]: “Tunisian blogs and sites have been censored, then those of civil society, then those of LEGITIMATE political parties, now the stupidity of Ben Ali's regime is attacking Dailymotion, one rare remaining space of freedom for Tunisians… Yesterday (April 1st), the Ben Ali dictatorship decided to behead Dailymotion in public .” The blogger posts a Dailymotion clip of a 2004 Bush-Ben Ali conference.

• Alice Backer

Burkina Faso

Demain le Congo Brazzaville posts [Fr] a complaint lodged in the French accusing of embezzlement African leaders such as Omar Bongo of Gabon, Denis Sassoun Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville and Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso. The complaint acknowledges that a French judge cannot adjudicate on salaries of African dictators but emphasizes the massive amounts of real estate owned by the accused African leaders in France.

• Alice Backer

Updates

Cricketwukup.com rates various aspects of Sunday's Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Sri Lanka. The highest marks go to the crowd, for “bravery in the face of the adversity”.

• Georgia Popplewell

Cuba

Claudia4Libertad links to a petition requesting that Cuban-American music star Gloria Estefan reconsider having Carlos Santana appear as a guest artist on her tribute to Cuba album “90 Millas” on account of Santana's professed admiration of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

• Georgia Popplewell