Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 June 18

18 June 2007

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Stories from 18 June 2007

Arabeyes: The Middle East in Pictures

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

This week's pictorial tour of the Middle East takes us to a wedding with a difference in Amman, Kuwait in a dust storm, where Lebanese escape the news and finally a picture of a hatching Bulbul in a tribute to a loving father from Bahrain.

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India: Theatre in Education

Written by Javits Rajendran · South Asia

Tolubommalata & Koodiyattam are few amongst the variegated theatre forms in the sub-continent. While this ancient art is slowing fading away, modern Indian theatre is taking stage. It now is...

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Morocco: How to bake bread in the medina

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

Ever wondered how so much bread gets baked so quickly in Morocco? A recent New York Times article on the furan, or community oven, explains how - and bloggers are quick to comment!

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Ethiopian bloggers first to report shock guilty verdict

Written by Andrew Heavens · Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopian bloggers were among the first to report on a court's shock decision to convict 38 opposition politicians of a range of serious charges including "outrages against the constitution" earlier this week.

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Japan: Lawmakers' Ad on Comfort Women

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

A group of Japanese lawmakers took out an ad in the Washing Post to present “the facts” about the comfort women that “no historical document has ever been found by...

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Bolivia: Taking Their Complaints to Their Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

In his first post for Global Voices, Hugo Miranda collects blogger complaints with local, national and international businesses that have failed to deliver on customer service. Even though much of this dissatisfaction may not reach the companies in question, it has reached other bloggers and even the search engine.

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Updates from 18 June 2007

Russia

A horror story, almost, from Darkness At Noon: you're in Russia, and you use one of those ATM machines that gives you the money first and then returns your card, and you take the money but forget about the card - and then the horror begins: “Do you mean to tell me that my ATM card is wandering around Moscow right now in the pocket of some technician and that MAYBE it will show up in a couple of days? That's unacceptable. Listen, I need to know right now, WHERE'S MY CARD?”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Finland

Belgrade 2.0 posts a video of a press conference with Marija Serifovic, who won this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki, at which she makes the following remark about Finland: “erm, the country didn’t particularly suit me, and I don’t like those yellowish, “see-through” people… I despise them…” Bloggers discuss whether Serifovic was being ironic, racist or just silly.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Ukrainiana writes about Ukraine's horrifying AIDS statistics and the wrong crowd that Elton John has gotten himself into.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Michelle Knisley of Greetings from Kiev attended Elton John's AIDS awareness concert, along with approximately 200,000 other people. Before the concert, she happened to watch a TV clip about the orphanage she used to work at and recognized two girls with AIDS she once played with.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Romania

Plenty of pictures and a report from the GayFest 2007 in Bucharest by Romerican: “Perhaps a statement of solidarity, the Romanian Jandarmeria had stationed a large number of attractive men in uniform alongside the gay paraders.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Brazil

Ronaldo Lemos published his paper “From Legal Commons to Social Commons: Brazil and the Cultural Industry” at iCommons.org, describing some of the current transformations regarding the processes by which information and culture are generated, from the point of view of developing countries.

• Jose Murilo

India

The Indian Economy Blog on India's way of dealing with the G8 talks on climate change, and why the country must take some actions.

• Neha Viswanathan

Sri Lanka

Scourge! catches part of a sermon by a Buddhist priest, and points out that the priest appears to suggest that a “western” lifestyle is harmful to the environment.

• Neha Viswanathan