Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 April 20

20 April 2007

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Stories from 20 April 2007

Chilean Love Poetry Online

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Love is one of the universal languages. One of the Chilean poets who wrote poems about love was Pablo Neruda. Not only do Chilean bloggers have Neruda’s romantic prose in their digital DNA, but so do bloggers around the world. Here is a selection of Pablo Neruda’s poetry that has spread throughout the net.

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India and Bollywood Buzz

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

This week Bollywood was the dominant topic of conversation among bloggers. Bollywood dominated for a couple of reasons. The first one is the wedding of the year or the decade or...

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Egypt: From Kareem to Mahmood

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian blogger and Muslim Brotherhood member Abdul Monem Mahmood has been arrested for articles he posted online. A blogger argues that he is not getting as much attention as another Egyptian blogger - Kareem Nabeel Sulaiman - who was sentenced to four years for insulting Islam.

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Global Voices is seeking a co-Managing Editor

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Announcements

Global Voices is seeking to hire a co-Managing Editor. Follow the arrows to learn more about the position and how to apply. The application deadline is Friday May 4, 2007.

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How [NOT] To: Armenian Genocide Protest

Written by Artur Papyan · Central Asia & Caucasus

Points about what is appropriate for an Armenian to do on the Armenian genocide remembrance day - April 24th, started earlier this week by the Armenia blog were picked up...

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Maldives police accused of torture and killing a young man

Written by Nihan Zafar · South Asia

Torture by Maldivian police on detainees has come under spotlight once again with the discovery of a badly beaten body from water in the morning of April 15 in the...

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China: MeMedia Issue 4: Copyright Kills Creation, Life's Precious, Ching Ming Festival

Written by Nan Yang · East Asia

This week comes the fourth issue from the newly-formed MeMedia roundup of all that's hot around the Chinese blogsphere including the upcoming Taiwan Bloggers BoF, copyright discussion in Hong Kong,...

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Updates from 20 April 2007

India

The Indian Economy Blog points to lopsided opinions in a newspaper. “The tale of India’s billionaires, Sahota writes in conclusion, is also the story of her suicides, as if one were responsible for the other. To mix the two is to commit a double offence: first, it demeans the achievements of those who have risen to the top of the economic heap in the face of global competition and often in spite of the government. Second, it distracts attention from the real reasons why the suicides still happen: criticism of theoretical constructs that ignores the actual policies and their implementation, usually by those whose only contribution to the battle against poverty is their propensity to indulge in—and send the government on—wild-goose chases.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Sri Lanka

The Truth Around Us on the politics and economics of travel and vehicles. “So why doesn’t the government at least reduce the tax on vans to benefit the common person. Well the answer is a Win-Lose, Lose-Win situation. If the government reduces the tax on vans, no one would buy cars and the government would lose money.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Russia

Scraps of Moscow links to a few anti-opposition pieces and observes: “Of course this is not a real, capable, popular opposition. Of course Putin is supported by the majority of Russians, with some justification given Russia's recent economic good fortune. But none of this means that people engaged in a protest action should be beaten and detained by the authorities […].”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Pakistan

Tee Emm on Pakistan has a post on the ISPs doing business. “The News is saying that at least two groups, one of which is from UAE, wants to take up the smaller ISPs in the country in an effort to capture the left-over Internet part of the telecommunication sector in Pakistan which so far has been overshadowed by the bigger numbers and higher attention bandwidth casted on the voice business by the international investors.”

• Neha Viswanathan

Iran

According to Eteraz [Fa]most arrested students in Babol University in the northern part of country are out of jail.Sabagh,a student activist who had been kidnapped a few days ago, is out of jail too.

• Fred Petrossian

Bangladesh

Morris the pen revisits Madhabi. “Remember Madhabi Majhi? She was the girl who was allegedly thrown from a balcony in Dhanmondi last year and narrowly escaped with her life. Her story was charted here in the magazine, and the last we saw of her, she was safe at the BNWLA hostel, sitting up in bed, her spirits healing.”

• Neha Viswanathan