Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 February 12

12 February 2008

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Stories from 12 February 2008

National Sports: unique expressions of countrywide pride.

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, East Asia

Whether by government decree or by popularity, national sports are part of the cultural makeup of every country. People from many walks of life come together to participate, watch or root for their favorite athletes or teams. Check out which unique national sports Colombia, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates have.

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Hindi: Water, dowry, the stock market and others

Written by Amit Gupta · South Asia

Global Warming is something thats affecting us all. But even in this regard there are different camps. Some believe that its a very important concern and something should be done...

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Japan: Interview with Sasaki Toshinao by g86

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

In an interview with "space journal", a group blog by four architecture students at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, well-known Japanese IT journalist and writer Sasaki Toshinao speaks about the emergence of Japan's Lost Generation, the birth of the country's blogging movement, and the recent transformation of Japanese society from "seken" to "kuuki".

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East Timor: Democracy under siege

Written by Paula Góes · East Asia

Here is an update on the Monday's attempted assassinations against the two top leaders of East Timor, President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao, the country's independence heroes, and the murder of one opposition leader. In the wake of the failed coup attempt, see what blogs in Portuguese, one of the official languages of the ex-colony, have to say. Some of their questions remain unanswered.

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Uruguay: File Sharing Site Raises Questions

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

What started as a photo sharing site is now a site attracting thousands of visitors hoping to download mp3 files from Uruguayan musical artists. In an interview, one of the founders of the site Uruguay Photos talks about some of the controversy over hosting music files and his interaction with the artists, most of whom fully support the site as a way to reach more people. The interview was conducted by Martin Balao and is translated for Global Voices.

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Updates from 12 February 2008

Bosnia Herzegovina

Pure Intent reports that 20,000 people rallied in Sarajevo against juvenile delinquency that's “becoming an epidemic”: “This fact has been well known to our beloved government. They have been too busy fighting for their respective thrones to bother to notice the 26 violent crimes committed by underage boys in Sarajevo alone. All of them home with mom and dad, walking the same streets they terrorized whilst our ‘leaders' fight for the hefty booty from BH Telecom, Elektroprivrede, and the abundance of national resources that they consider personal property.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Moldova

Public Policy Watch - Politici Publice in Moldova writes about “a relatively recent fashion of identifying and ranking Moldovan VIPs, practiced by local mass media outlets.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

The beatroot writes about the issues surrounding PM Tusk's visit to Moscow.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

The beatroot reports: “So Poles are Democrats, interestingly, and they are rooting for Hilary.” And adds in the comments section: “But it is interesting that Poles in Poland are going Democrat, while Poles in the US often than not vote republican.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Albania

Stepping Stones writes about her trip to Shkoder and posts some pictures: “No trip to Shkodra would be complete without a stop at the Venetian mask workshop where they are busy making almost 80% of the masks which are sold in Venice! Everything is done by hand here, the end product being a truly special piece of art.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Albania

Living in Shkoder writes about plans to renovate the Lead Mosque: “Built towards the end of the 1700’s this is one of the few mosques that were not destroyed around 1967, when Enver Hoxha’s communist government declared Albania an “atheistic country” and banned all religious meetings and literature.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Lithuania

Viola in Vilnius - European Capital of Culture 2009 writes about the sorry state of Lithuania's music education.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Romania

An excerpt from the U.S. Ambassador's speech on investing in Romania - at Transatlantic Politics.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Mozambique

After Maputo, Chókuè, Bobole and Maracuene, the next Mozambican city to go under cost of living protests was Chibuto, this morning, according to Carlos Serra [pt]. The sociologist blogger says that these social protests seem to be a new phenomena in Mozambique history.

• Paula Góes

Brazil

Ricardo Cobra [pt] is going to live stream Campus Party Brazil at his blog. He has also met the mysterious blogger who sold her body (rather blogs' adverts space in her body) to be able to attend to Campus Party.

• Paula Góes

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