14 August 2007
Stories from 14 August 2007
Egypt: Police Kill Boy, 12
Zeinobia, from Egypt, reports that a 12-year-old was tortured to death by police, after being arrested for shoplifting.
KenyaUnlimited: Gigabytes of Voices, Opinions, Knowledge and News
Any discussions about the rise and future of online communities in Africa will be incomplete without mentioning KenyaUnlimited, the home of the Kenyan Blogs Webring (KBW) and Kenyan blogs aggregator.KBW turned three years last month. Since its birth, KBW has been able to bring to a global audience gigabytes of voices, opinions, news, knoweldge and debates from the Kenyan blogosphere.
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Japan: Tokyo Pride Parade
On August 11, 2007, the 6th Tokyo Pride Parade with nearly 3,000 participants hit the streets of downtown Tokyo under the blazing August sun. The TPP is becoming an annual event, one in which members of Japan's sexual minority community embrace and celebrate their sexuality and promote sexual diversity to the larger society. Bloggers who participated in the parade offer their impressions.
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Taiwan: The blog pirates
(Photo courtesy of Mrs. Turtle. The words on the photo are: All right preserved. No co-authors. Toy turtle claims: I only go out with Mrs. Turtle.) When more and more...
Peru: Film Festival Poster Brings Cries of Racism
A poster advertising the 2007 Lima Film Festival featured an illustration of several lighter skinned Peruvians, typical of the crowd that the festival might attract. However, one additional attendee on the poster represented a darker skinned Peruvian, who had his back turned. Some bloggers wondered why he was the only one with his back turned and what this represented. This sparked a reaction from the Peruvian blogosphere about the state of racism in the country.
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...