6 November 2007
Stories from 6 November 2007
Guatemala: The Challenges for the Next President
Guatemala participated in a run-off election where Alvaro Colom was declared the victor. Now that the results are almost completely tabulated, the new president faces the same problems as his predecessor: drug trafficking, organized crime, corruption and the list goes on. Bloggers in Guatemala have their own hopes for the country and addresses the new president with their own wish list.
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China:Korean professor under catcalls
A Korean professor's theory was put under critiques soon after it was reported in China. His suggestion that Chinese mythology mainly originated from Korea piqued many Chinese netizens and received despising reactions. It is the latest incident of a series of controversies between China and Korea on culture issues.
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Hong Kong: Illegal 14K Design
On November 1, 2007, Hong Kong Police force took action against a local household design chain store, G.O.D (Goods of Desire), confiscated 88 T-shirt with a “14K” logo and arrested...
Egypt: Final Chapter of a Torture Case
After months of waiting and speculation, justice is served at last in an Egyptian saga in which a driver was sodomised and tortured by police - who captured their criminal activities on tape to further humiliate their victim. Eman Abd Al Rahman brings us the latest buzz from the Egyptian blogosphere about the case.
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Hello Kasnar, I regret to say that those type of programmes are very common all over Brazil, both on local and...
Wow!!. I'm an American and I do not speak Portuguese well if at all. I did find it strange...