Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 March 17

17 March 2008

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Stories from 17 March 2008

Egypt: Another strike and many protests

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian doctors and university faculty have joined the crowds and decided to protest against their low salaries, writes Eman AbdElRahman, who brings us the latest reactions to labour strikes from the Egyptian blogosphere.

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Bangladesh: Fighting the cycle of poverty

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

In this week's roundup we will highlight some of the discussions happening in the Bangladeshi Blogosphere on the issues of Poverty, LGBT and Travel . Poverty: Bangladesh is a developing...

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Welcome German, Albanian and Macedonian into Lingua Family

Written by Portnoy Zheng · Announcements

Global Voices Lingua is honored to announce today that German, Albanian and Macedonian have launched officially. A new chapter is turned. Since the initiation of Lingua, we have gathered an...

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Uzbekistan: Foreign Policy Perturbations

Written by Tolkun · Central Asia & Caucasus

The Uzbek regime's violent suppression of the uprising in Andijan in May 2005 was a turning point in the country's foreign policy. The government did not allow EU to investigate...

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Japan: Support for Tibet

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

As fires rage on in the streets of Lhasa, bloggers in another part of the world have been anxiously following developments in Tibet with open eyes and open ears. Over the weekend, as mainstream media in Japan presented what many criticized as toned-down coverage of ongoing events in Lhasa, the word "Tibet" climbed to number one on Japanese blog search engines with thousands of entries largely in support of the uprising.

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Tanzania: To quit or not to quit?

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Pernille is a well-known blogger from Denmark. She entered the African blogosphere scene when she started working in Uganda and blogging at “I've Left Copenhagen for Uganda”. She is now lives in Tanzania and blogs under a new name, Louder than Swahili. Last week she decided to put her blog on stand-by following comments she received via email, SMS, and phone calls, which made her uncomfortable.

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Africa: Hope Supersedes All

Written by Paula Odhiambo · Sub-Saharan Africa

Women love to share their experiences and express themselves, but no clock will wait for them to sit and share every detail with each other - not even if they do it on their blogs. Life must go on.

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Did the Philippine President Commit Treason?

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Philippine President Gloria Arroyo is accused by her critics of approving an anomalous transaction involving the Chinese firm ZTE. But there is a new allegation that the president is guilty of treason as well.

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Updates from 17 March 2008

Russia

TOL's Steady State writes about Russia and “Kosovo's precedent”: “Russia is an ardent supporter of the territorial integrity in the Balkans. When it comes to the Caucasus, those principles change.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Czech Republic

Dr. Sean's Diary reviews Martin Horak’s Governing the Post-Communist City, a “study of city government in Prague in the decade following the collapse of communism.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Romania

Dr. Sean's Diary posts a primer on Romania's election law.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Macedonia

A Fistful of Euros posts “a brief primer on Macedonian politics.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Iran

Thanks to Enghelab57 blog,you can listen to the first song that was broadcasted on Iranian TV and Radio after Islamic Revolution in 1979.

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Kourosh Ziabari says [Fa]that a few days ago he and a few other young Iranians organized a conference to celebrate Rumi ,Iranian great poet, in Rasht in the northern Iran.

• Fred Petrossian

Georgia

Now that opposition protests in one of the three South Caucasus republics have stopped, new protests are resuming in another. TOL Georgia reports that a few thousand protesters are once again demonstrating in central Tbilisi, but considers that their efforts to force a new presidential election two months after the last one are probably in vain.

• Onnik Krikorian

Armenia

The Armenian Patchwork reports that life continues in Yerevan even though a state of emergency has been declared. Indeed, the blog posts photographs of the opening of a new Beatles' themed bar and a rock concert by a local band in a club whose enclosed cafe was used by the opposition as a makeshift headquarters during the recent overnight protests in Liberty Square.

• Onnik Krikorian

Iran

According to media, USA government is planning to beam Azeri-language radio broadcasts into Iran, in a bid to influence opinion among the significant ethnic Azeri population there. Hezaran Noghteh says [Fa]such a decision means that US government encouraging separatism in Iran. The blogger call it a big mistake for Americans who underestimate Iranians.

• Fred Petrossian

Ukraine: Homophobic Legal Initiatives in Sync with Public Attitudes

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