8 December 2007
Stories from 8 December 2007
Russia, France: Charmed by Putin?
Russian bloggers discuss Nicolas Sarkozy's congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin, following the Dec. 2 parliamentary election in Russia.
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Russian bloggers discuss Nicolas Sarkozy's congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin, following the Dec. 2 parliamentary election in Russia.
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Rodrigo Savazoni [pt] takes the opportunity of a Brazilian short film winning the YouTube Project:Direct to talk about the changes brought by new technologies to movie making: “I can only see the bright side of it. Because nobody will stop watching good movies and a lot more people have started to make them, developing new formats, with more agility and speed, and extremely cheaply”. Enjoy the film Ties (with English subtitles).
The jailed Egyptian bloggerKareem Nabeel Sulaiman was awarded this year's Human Rights Prize in the category “Cyber-dissident” by Reporters without Borders (RSF) and “Fondation de France“.
“Sorrel…is traditionally used to make one of Trinidad and Tobago's most beloved national Christmas drinks,” writes My Chutney Garden, as she guides us through the sorrel-brewing process.
“Yes, these nine to eleven grade young girls are selling their bodies and sexual favours for as cheap as JM$10 (approximately US$0.14)!”: Stunner's Afflictions says “something needs to be done for this trend to stop”.
Geoffrey Philp interviews Jamaican writer and professor Mervyn Morris.
“If there is anything to see in this country, it is this waterfall”: Mark Hejinian makes a trip to Guyana's Kaieteur Falls.
Uncommon Sense posts an update on the Cuban church attack: “Archbishop Dionisio García Ibáñez of Santiago de Cuba says…that he had met with Caridad Diego, head of the communist party's religious affairs department, and that apologies had been made.”
“The Internet is rock steady in its necessity to the human race. But…the fact that we are human means that some things will always remain the same”: Caribbean Public Relations blogs about the importance of transparency in cyber-relationships.
A Limey in Bermuda likens the island's political situation to George Orwell's Animal Farm.
“Most countries in the Caribbean region have had a long experience of peace with other nations; however, we find that we are increasingly ‘at war' amongst ourselves”: Living in Barbados examines the reasons behind the region's spiraling crime rate.
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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...