Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 July 02

2 July 2007

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Stories from 2 July 2007

Can Haitians tackle drugs and corruption?

Last week, Haitian president René Préval declared before the leaders of the fifteen member countries of CARICOM and President George Bush that fighting corruption and drugs were his government's top priorities. Collectif-haiti-de-provence is not so certain of his resolve--or that of the Haitian people.

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Arabeyes: Hamas and Fatah Dig Up Some Dirt

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

The war between Fatah and Hamas has just got dirtier, 33 Muslim Brotherhood students are arrested in Egypt, a video sheds light on how all the different hues of Egyptians are really one, an exhausting wedding in Saudi and the appearance of a dead grandmother in a dream are just some of the goodies in store for us in this week's Arabic translation of blogs.

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Kuwait is like a Cinema

Written by Abdullatif AlOmar · Middle East & North Africa

Kuwaiti bloggers have more than meets the eyes. This week we hear from a Kuwaiti teacher, a film maker and an artist. We also see how one blogger reacted when the electricity was cut at work and why a vital pedestrian crossing between two sections of a mall comes to a standstill at 11pm.

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Korea: Internet and Anonymity

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

Internet portal sites in Korea will use the real-name comment system (daet-geul sil-myeong-je) from this month. Two major portal sites, Daum and Naver, already started from the 27th of June,...

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Newsmakers: Bangla blog world engages in celeb talk

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

A few weeks back, the celebrity heiress Paris Hilton went in and out of jail and the media lapped up her every move. We learnt about her diet, beauty regimen,...

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Bolivia: A Previous Encounter with the Victim and the Problem With the Fashion Society

Written by Mario Duran · Latin America

José Andrés Sánchez writes for the Santa Cruz daily El Deber, and also maintains a blog where he adds supplemental information about his published articles. In his blog, he recalls his earlier encounter with a recently murdered "pimp," who was interviewed for his story about child prostitution. A Cochabamba blogger also criticizes the "fashion society" that values butts over brains.

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Updates from 2 July 2007

Slovakia

Last week, Slovak police seized web servers of an IT company that hosts websites of 3,500 clients - “or almost three percent of the Slovak internet” - leaving clients without internet connection and causing the country's bloggers to protest the police actions. Deleted by Tomorrow reports on “the first great Slovak blogosphere venturing into the real world“: “As one netizen commenter observed, it very well might have been in accordance with the law, but is the law in accordance with 21st century?”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Belarus

TOL's Belarus translates a blogger's post on the preparations for “an annual Lukašenka Independence Day” celebrations in Minsk on July 3.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Belarus

TOL's Belarus reposts the text on the gloomy demographic situation in Belarus, which originally appeared on the site of the Belarusan Youth Movement of America.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Estonia

Transatlantic Politics reports on the Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian foreign ministers' views on Russia.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bulgaria

The nEUrosis writes about Bulgarian ancient and more recent history.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Albania

In this post, Thessaloniki-based Teacher Dude posts a YouTube video of two Albanian men being beaten and ordered to slap each other by a Greek police officer, quotes the Independent Media Center's transcript, and translates from Greek comments “expressing satisfaction at what those arrested had suffered.” Some reactions from the Albanian side are at Albanian.com and Topix Albania discussion boards. A petition against human rights abuse of immigrants in Greece is here, signed by 982 people so far, is here.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iran

Parastoo says[Fa] that today Iran launched 24-hour Press TV channel in English.The blogger adds this channel belongs to Iranian government.

• Fred Petrossian

Brazil

Beatriz Labate announces the publishing by MAPS of an extensive bibliography about the Brazilian Ayahuasca Religions, and says that the expansion of these religious movements within Brazil and into other countries, of which the boom in studies is evidence, points to a growing relevance and timeliness of the topic.

• Jose Murilo

Iran

View from Iran says Michael Hirsh wrote a very interesting article in the Washington Post:”Iran has a message.Are we listening?” The article focused on nuclear crisis and what Iran really wants.

• Fred Petrossian