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15 June 2007

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Stories from 15 June 2007

Korea: Loan Companies and Advertising

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

From some time, advertisements for personal loan companies have appeared in TV, magazines, and newspapers in Korea. Famous entertainers showed their faces in these advertisements. It took time for people...

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Dear GV, From the iSummit

Written by Renata Avila · Croatia

Global Voices author Renata Avila sends this blog postcard from the iSummit in Croatia, which brings together a global community "working together to build a community of freedom - to create, to use, to share."

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Africa: Blogging TED Global

Written by Benin Mwangi · Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa's business blogosphere is known for being many things: Diverse Analytical Funny Engaging And the list could go on and on. But one thing that it is not generally known...

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China: Wang Shuo's Informer Letter Against Corruption of Censorship Department

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Wang Xiao-feng posted Wang Shuo's Informer Letter to the Supreme People’s Procuratorate against the corrupted practice of T.V program censorship teams. Wang Shuo is a contemporary Chinese writer who is...

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India: Rajnikanth Movie Mania, Bollywood and Web Analytics

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

It is movie mania week and it is not from Bollywood but from Kollywood or the Tamil film industry. Rajnikanth's (or Rajni) Sivaji: The Boss is slated for release tomorrow...

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India: The Kanchipuram Girl and other photographs

Written by Mathy Kandasamy · South Asia

Keerthivasan from Chennai visited nearby Kanchipuram, a temple town. An avid photographer, he snapped a lot of photos but displayed only one! He did not even choose to take this...

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WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub wins One World Media award

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Written by Georgia Popplewell · Announcements, Human Rights Video
Human Rights Video

Yesterday evening (June 14), the WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub pilot took the award for best New Media project at the One World Media Awards in London. As former Video Hub editor Sameer Padania writes in an e-mail this morning: "I know people say this all the time, but the award really does belong to the brave, committed, talented people on the ground - bloggers, human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, citizens - who fought to bring these stories to light, and without whom we genuinely would have had nothing to say or show." (Visit this page to see the full list of winners).

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Congo-Brazzaville: Misgivings about upcoming legislative elections

Written by Jennifer Brea · Sub-Saharan Africa

Demain Le Congo-Brazzaville has major misgivings about the upcoming legislative election, scheduled for June 24th. For months Demain has been calling on President Denis Sassou Nguesso, without success, to establish an independent electoral commission to prevent the irregularities that have plagued past contests.

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