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Stories from 28 March 2008

China: Responses to the Dalai Lama's appeal

As Lhasa has supposedly quieted down, the anti-CNN.com crowd has gone off the deep end, that might be worth exploring more. The death threats they've been making towards Western media...

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Middle East and North Africa: Client Number Nine

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Eliot Spitzer's fall from grace grabbed the headlines as soon as newsmen caught wind of the scandal. Bloggers followed closely on their heel, including those from the Middle East and North Africa, whose attention was turned to the humiliation his wife must have suffered from and indignation of having her to stand by him as he announced his resignation.

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Peru: Puno Leader Seeking Greater Autonomy for Region

Written by Juan Arellano · Latin America

The Regional President of Puno, Hernán Fuentes, has called for increased financial, administrative and political autonomy for one of the poorest regions of Peru. Some local bloggers agree that Puno needs more help in order to combat its high rates of poverty, but wonder whether Fuentes is just following from Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez' playbook, but also note that seeking autonomy is not new within Peru's history.

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Egypt: American Navy's Friendly Fire

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Egyptian bloggers lament to the loss of one of their countrymen who was killed in an incident involving the American Navy in the Suez Canal. They are also wondering where their sovereignty as a state has gone and whether the slain man's family will ever see justice.

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Blogger's opinion about “Nsima” angers Malawians

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

A recent post on Malawi's staple food nsima has raised debate on how much freedom one can have in expressing themselves in blogs. The reactions by mostly Malawian readers have demonstrated that some restraint, responsibility and sensitivity is needed especially if one is writing about something that others may consider very dear to them.

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Colombia: Contest brings forth multimedia citizen journalists

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Contest open for anyone, regardless of nationality, to write, show and create content telling the world about a very special place in Colombia most people wouldn´t normally be aware of. Bloggers and vloggers are already responding, here are examples from the Chocó and Antioquia regions.

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Updates from 28 March 2008

Belarus

Eternal Remont links to a new blog whose aim is to draw attention to Emanuel Zeltser's case: FREE Emanuel Zeltser and Vladlena Funk - Illegally Imprisoned in Belarus Since March 12, 2008.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Valery Dzutsev offers a view on why “there is so much tension between the US and Russia.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Macedonia

More on the Macedonia-Greece name dispute - at Halfway Down the Danube and Foreign Policy Blog.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Chile

Marcelo Trivelli, a pre-candidate for the Chilean presidency, has promised to promote the objectives of the campaign “One Computer Per Child,” [es] writes Luis Ramirez and will appear on TV with the XO computer from the OLPC project.

• Eduardo Avila

Morocco

“Rachid Nini, a popular Moroccan columnist and director of the daily Arabophone newspaper Almassae, was fined by a court in Rabat about $857000 for alleged defamation and slander of 4 prosecutors in the northern town of Ksar Kbir, said Almassae newspaper. The amount of the fine is exorbitant and unprecedented in Moroccan press history,” reports A Moro in America.

• Amira Al Hussaini