Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2007 July 16

16 July 2007

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Stories from 16 July 2007

Hong Kong: GV Editor Oiwan Lam faces court battle over Flickr photo

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon · Hong Kong (China)

On May 11th, Oiwan Lam, Global Voices Northeast Asia Editor, committed what she says was a deliberate act of civil disobedience. Writing on the citizen media website InMedia Hong Kong, Oiwan called on her readers to post links to erotic websites and also included an artsy photo of a topless woman that she found on Flickr, the photo sharing site owned by Yahoo!. The post was originally published here, but has now been removed from the InMedia site and posted on a Wordpress.com blog. As Boingboing and others reported earlier this week, Oiwan's post has been classified as "Class II indecent" by Hong Kong's Obscene Articles Tribunal.

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Sudan: Movie Reviews, Being Single, Sudanese Rape Laws & Life Saving Stoves for Darfur

Written by SudaneseDrima · Sub-Saharan Africa

There is quite a lot to cover in this week’s round up of the Sudanese blogosphere: movie reviews, government reshuffle in South Sudan, Darfur Stoves Project, etc. We’ll first start with some Sudanese bloggers’ thoughts on recently released movies.

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Maldives: Jamming to save the islands from submerging

Written by Nihan Zafar · South Asia

In Greek mythology singing of the Sirens were so sweet and melodic that sailors were lured into the sea and met fateful deaths. On July 07, or the date known...

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World Ponders the 7 New Wonders

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

On July 7, 2007, the world elected a list of “New 7 Wonders”. Chosen by global vote via internet, telephone and SMS, many argue that the election was unfair and...

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China: Rodent population problem

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

A lake swells and two billion rats flee into farmland, destroying many crops. A massive extermination campaign is launched bringing in ninety tons of rodent in less than a month and leaving bloggers questioning, of all things, their eating habits.

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El Salvador: What Bloggers are Saying About Protesters and Terrorism

Written by Tim Muth · Latin America

A bloody street protest one year ago led to the passage of an Anti-Terrorism Law in El Salvador. The alleged cop-killer in the disturbances outside of the University of El Salvador has been arrested, and the Anti-Terrorism Law is being used — to prosecute protesters demonstrating against the government’s water policy. The Salvadoran blogosphere has had much to say about this turn of events.

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Egypt: Two Bloggers Arrested

Written by Freedom For Egyptians · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian Watchman blog is reporting that Ahmed El Geizawy of ana Bahebek ya Masr (I love you Egypt) blog and Moataz Adel of Manfa blog were arrested today. The two bloggers were on their way to cover a military court session for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

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Updates from 16 July 2007

Kenya

Try to make the the Kenyan dish, Mthokoi: “Many thanks to Wawuda for sharing this recipe with us. I have prepared this recipe a few times for my family. It seems very simple but the mixture of beans, corn and sweet pepper creates a wonderful flavor that may make you serve this dish again and again. I am happy to tell you this is a must try Kenyan recipe.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Ghana

Ramblings of an African Geek writes about secondary school programming competition in Ghana: “For those of you unfamiliar with I2CAP, it is a secondary school level programming competition. We train the teachers who go back and train the students. Then we have regional competitions and finally the nationals. At the moment their tutors are taught in the Ruby programming language.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Iran

Ghomarasheghaneh has published the 14 photos of jailed members of Tahkim Vahdat, a progressive student organization.The blogger asks for their freedom.

• Fred Petrossian

Malaysia

Oon Yeoh has pictures from the candle light vigil that was organized in support of blogger Nathaniel Tan. Nathaniel was detained by police last Friday.

• Preetam Rai

Laos

Curzon at Cominganarchy.com introduces Laotian Navy. Laos is a landlocked country.

• Preetam Rai

Cambodia

Cambodian student Himatsubushi, currently living in Japan, describes his experience of the recent earthquake that hit Japan.

• Preetam Rai

Thailand

Real Thai hunts down a Chinese restaurant in Bangkok that serves Yunanese food. Yunan is a province of China closest to South East Asia and some Yunanese people sought refuge in Northern Thailand after the communist took control of China in 1949.

• Preetam Rai

South Africa

Black Looks writes about the brutal murder of two South African lesbian activists: “Last Sunday two more South African lesbians were brutally raped and murdered in Medowlands, Soweto. Sizakele Sigasa, lesbian activist and outreach worker with the Positive Women’s Network (PWN), and her friend, Salome Masooa, were first tortured and then murdered.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Iran

Kamangir reports that The Islamic Republic television has just aired short pieces of a program titled “In the name of democracy”. The program features “confessions” made by three Iranian academics and scholars about their anti Islamic Republic activities: Haleh Esfandiari, Kian Tajbakhsh and Ramin Jahanbegloo.Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh are still in prison.