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14 April 2007

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Stories from 14 April 2007

Chile: building a new educational understanding

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

These days one of the issues that is capturing the attention of Chilean bloggers is the educational reform. The LOCE, Constitutional Organic Law of Students is being reformed to a new law called the General Law of Education (PLEGE) (ES). Michele Bachelet, president of Chile declared that origin of the LOCE was authoritarian and that this new reform is based upon republican and democratic visions “and in a democracy, a law has to legitimize the popular sovereignty and the current LOCE, clearly does not count on this legitimacy”

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This week on Myanmar Blogosphere: Myanmar Thingyan 2007

Written by May Hnin Phyu · East Asia

April has always been the most exciting month for Burmese as it is the month to celebrate Thingyan - water festival. It is also a New Year in Myanmar calendar. Burmese around the world celebrate Thingyan with various type of seasonal food, music and lots of water. Over at Myanmar blogosphere, the bloggers are also celebrating Thingyan in their own style.

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Malawi: A Biblical Lesson for Malawi Politicians, Blogger Graduates With a Distinction, Unique Lake Malawi Species and Robots Separate Couple

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

Whoever is reading this might know just how dangerous it can be to trust anything on the Internet. The reasons are numerous. No need to labour and explain them. Malawi's...

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Updates from 14 April 2007

Iran

Hanif Mazroi [Fa] reminds us that Ali Farahbakhsh,an economic journalist,has been in prison for 5 months.The blogger says journalism is an unpredictable profession in Iran. You, as a journalist, can never be involved with politics but you can go to jail without knowing the reasons.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Alpar [Fa]talks about recent Islamic Solidarity conference in Iran. He is surprised that Sunnites in Tehran has no right to have their own mosques.He asks is Islamic Republic ready to give this right to Sunnites?

• Fred Petrossian

Egypt

Egypt-based blogger Tim Seah reports on five prisoners who have been behind bars for a decade and who are yet to be freed despite 125 release orders. “Security forces arrested five kids, some of them as young as 15, from the al-Sharqiyya governorate in the Nile Delta on suspicion of belonging to Islamic Jihad following the 1997 terrorist attacks in Luxor. In the 10 years since, Ismail said, magistrates have ordered their release 125 times each, saying there was no evidence to keep them detained. No matter. A decade later, they are still in prison,” he explains.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al Yousif discusses the meaning of the word imbecile and admits that he “was actually generous in that term’s use in some cases.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

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