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8 May 2007

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Stories from 8 May 2007

Myanmar: Photos and Links Roundup

This week I came across a few good photos from Myanmar Bloggers so I compiled them as photo and link round up post. This image is from fifty viss blog...

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Trinidad & Tobago: The Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Written by Jonathan Ali · Caribbean

Recently, Nobel-prize-winning author Sir VS Naipaul paid a visit to Trinidad and Tobago, the country of his birth, the place from which he migrated as a young man to England, where he has lived ever since. He was in Trinidad as a guest of the University of the West Indies for a week of celebrations (April 16 to 20) in honour of the 75th year of his birth.

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Malawi: feel-good factor, bumper harvest, and vampire stories

Written by Steve Sharra · Sub-Saharan Africa

Having just returned from a short visit to Malawi, it is almost impossible not to write about the general sense of optimism the country is awash in especially in the...

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Guatemala: Town's oldest school to be demolished…and teachers on strike

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

A local school in San Pedro La Laguna in Guatemala is about to be demolished, and in its place, a new market built. This brings about questions about the status and importance of public education in Guatemala. Bloggers discuss the government's proposal to distribute $100 computers, as well as proposed raises to teacher salaries in spite of their strikes.

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Taiwan: Olympic torch relay-through Taiwan or not?

Written by I-fan Lin · China, Taiwan (ROC)

2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China will have a fabulous start: the route of the Olympic torch relay will be the longest in the history (85000 miles, 130 days). However,...

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Updates from 8 May 2007

Uruguay

Gabo from Uruguay lists in no particular order the top ten things he hates about living in Uruguay. He acknowledges that he is complaining and writes “There's a good graffiti here that reads: ‘Don't complain, emigrate!” He will, however, write a similar post of the things he loves about Uruguay.

• Eduardo Avila

Bosnia Herzegovina

Belgrade 2.0 reviews the first “Serbian-Bosnian-Montenegrin VIP version of the popular reality show Big Brother.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Peteris Cedrins of Marginalia writes: “On 8 May, I always read Peteris Ermanis' poem about the rejoicing when the War ended — driven into exile (like my parents — my mother studied under him in a displaced persons camp), he wept; he saw and felt how happy everyone in Prague and The Hague and Paris was that the horrors brought about by Hitler and Stalin had ended, but he knew all too well that the horrors had only begun for his nation.” Read more of this lengthy post about May 9 and the falsification of history.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Marginalia interviews Peters Janis Vecrumba, the founder and maintainer of latvians.com - “one of the oldest, biggest, and best Latvian-related sites on the Web.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

All About Latvia writes on what May 9 will be like in Latvia and how this differs from Estonia.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Itching for Eestimaa writes on how Estonian authorities should react to the rally that is likely to take place on May 9 in Tallinn: “To let them wear red, of course. Let them lay flowers, let them sing Communist songs. And when their moment of irritating the authorities is over, roundly denounce them for what they are: Communists. They may not consider themselves such, but if you are wearing red, and singing songs of the USSR, then I think it's fair game to be called a Communist. And once they become known as young Communists, they will become even less politically relevant because Communism is a corpse.”

• Veronica Khokhlova