Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 January 10

10 January 2008

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Stories from 10 January 2008

Iran: Frozen!

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Iran is facing an exceptionally cold winter. Snow has trapped many cities and at least eight people have lost their lives. Even gas supplies have been disrupted although Iran is...

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India: Introducing the Tata Nano

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

The unveiling of Tata Nano, a new supermini car at the New Delhi Auto Expo today has created quite a commotion on the blogosphere. The standard version of the car...

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Egypt: Chinese Goods

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Chinese goods are swamping markets worldwide. Egyptians now have to deal with roving Chinese salesmen and women knocking on their doors. Tarek Amr brings us the story.

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Korea: Game Addiction and Solution

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

Last year, 14 year old boy killed his 10 year old brother with a pocket knife. The motive was simply curiosity about the feeling after murder. He was known to...

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Lebanon: Without a President

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon has been without a president since the deadline for the election passed on November 24, 2007. The political bickering continues. A number of foreign initiatives have been launched to resolve the conflict issues but have so far been unsuccessful. The latest is the Arab League initiative, which is in progress this week. Here is a sample of Lebanese bloggers' reflection about the presidential vacuum and about the resulting political situation.

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Kenya: Moving images of unrest and hope

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Kenya

A video walkthrough of the recent violent events in Kenya following the December 27th elections, with shocking images, insightful interviews and hopeful thoughts on the future.

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Kazakhstan: Pranks and Politics

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

The row of dayoffs in Kazakhstan brought a dead season for news and blogosphere, following the 2005 law on national holidays, which made both Qurban Eid and Christian Orthodox Christmas...

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Updates from 10 January 2008

Ukraine

Orange Ukraine writes on the prospects of Ukraine's European integration.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Lithuania

Lituanica reports: “a Lithuanian man has started a procedure to contest the authorship of a physics law, which has been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize and is ascribed to American scientists.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Latvia

Marginalia reports: “Latvia is embroiled in a stunning scandal once again - the sale of perhaps a hundred passports to wealthy individuals, mostly Russian citizens seeking to take advantage of Latvia's EU and Schengen membership.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Pakistan

Another suicide bomb attack in Pakistan, killing 26 people in Lahore. More at All Things Pakistan.

• Neha Viswanathan

Bosnia Herzegovina

Greater Surbiton reviews ‘Peace and Punishment’ by Florence Hartmann, “former spokeswoman for Chief Prosecutor Carla del Ponte of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), […] the first senior official of the ICTY to have written a book discussing its inner workings.”

• Veronica Khokhlova