Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 July 14

14 July 2007

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Stories from 14 July 2007

Russia: The “BAMers”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Russian photographer Oleg Klimov is on a work trip across Russia and has been on the road since June 23. Read his sketch on the Baikal-Amur Mainline: once "the construction project of the century" and now a place populated by the people who, according to Klimov, are either afraid to leave or have nowhere to go.

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Is Africa ready for a United States of Africa?

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

United States of Africa. The idea is not new. It was alive during the times of Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and Mwalimu Nyerere of Tanzania. Today, the idea is being...

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Japan: A Social Media “Explosion”

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

A seminar entitled "Explosive Social Media" held at the Jiji Press Hall in Tokyo last Tuesday brought together people from various sectors of the business world interested in finding out about the explosive potential of social media in Japan.

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Korea: Bogus-degree and Success

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

A young female professor who was appointed as a director of one of the biggest festivals in Korea this month was revealed to be a bogus-degree holding intellectual. An art...

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Updates from 14 July 2007

U.S.A.

Kerosene Magazine is a new opinion magazine for the African Diaspora: “The print edition of magazine is currently being worked on and this is an open call for submissions. Please look at the “Submission Guidelines” page for further details and if you are interested, please send your work along. The deadline for the editorial and artwork is the 5th of October 2007. The theme for the launch issue is Past & Present.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Iran

Lord Kavi says “brain drain costs $50 billion or more yearly for Iran.”He explains a lot more about the “roots” of this problem that Iran has faced since Islamic Revolution.

• Fred Petrossian

Malawi

Steve Sharra reclaims Malawi's place at the Pan-African table: “It augurs very well for Malawi’s place in the pan-African world that we are celebrating our 43rd independence anniversary this year the same week that the 9th African Union Summit has been taking place in Accra, Ghana. After 43 odd years of independence, how many of us, not to talk of young Malawians, have a good grasp of the significance of celebrating July 6th as Malawi’s Independence Day?”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Malaysia

Malaysian blogger Nat Tan has been arrested for a comment published on one of his blog posts last year. His Laptop and desktop were seized. Tan has been remanded for four days, until Tuesday, to facilitate investigation under the Official Secrets Act (OSA).

• sami ben gharbia

Tunisia

The blog of the Tunisian journalist and blogger Slim Boukhdhir has been hacked and deleted. The work seems to be done by the same group of hackers who are targeting Tunisian opposition websites and blogs. Last weeks, the website of the Progressive Democratic Party (a legal opposition political party) has been hacked for several times. Next to censorship, hacking is a serious problem that dissent Tunisian websites and blogs are dealing with.

• sami ben gharbia

Kyrgyzstan

Major Jill Metzger disappeared from the US military base in Kyrgyzstan last year. CXW is catching up with the latest developments on the mysterious case and finds that the American officials are not investing enough effort into a full investigation.

• Ben Paarmann

Georgia

Melissa is appalled that the murder of a famous politician is being brought into connection with the repatriation of the Meshkhetian Turks. The murder victim, Guram Sharadze, had always spoken against inviting the ethnic minority to return to Georgia.

• Ben Paarmann