Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 April 13

13 April 2008

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Stories from 13 April 2008

Bahrain: Policeman's death divides bloggers

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Earlier this week a Bahraini policeman, Majid Asghar Ali, 27, was killed after a patrol car was attacked and set on fire near a village called Karzakan. Bahrain's bloggers have been quick to comment. While some are in shock, other cast their doubts on the credibility of the government's story that the young soldier was killed by protesters.

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Blogger of the Week: Victor Kaonga

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Sub-Saharan Africa

Today's Blogger of the Week series takes us to the heart of Africa, where we catch up with our Malawian blogger Victor Kaonga, who talks to us about his journey with blogging, the media and technology scene in Malawi and his special relationship with God.

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Korea: Another Election and Disputes between those in their 20s and 30-40s.

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

The general election took place on the 9th of April. The result the absolute victory for the conservative party, the GNP that the current President Lee Myung Bak belongs to....

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China: Fallout from the Free Tibet protests

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Anti-China protests this week sent nationalist sentiment in China up to a boiling roar. So when one young woman studying in the US was "caught" participating in a Free Tibet protest, hundreds of raging netizens hurled every insult imaginable her way.

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Updates from 13 April 2008

Egypt

Kim, an Indian living in Egypt, notices a lot of similarities between the Indian and Egyptian ways of life. She writes: “A couple of my friends Americans/Europeans who have married Egyptians have mentioned a couple of times that they cannot fathom how bathroom floors in Egypt are always wet. As an Indian, I find a lot of similarities in the Egyptian way of life, this water on the bathroom floor is one of them.”

• Tarek Amr

Armenia

The Armenian Observer reports that the politicization of the Eurovision Song Contest is continuing with the opposition in Armenia considering a boycott of the music competition and Armenia's entry, Sirusho. The young singer has been linked to the outgoing president's family and campaigned for his successor, Serge Sargsyan, in the February presidential election. However, the blog asks if what Armenia could gain from supporting Sirusho outweighs the domestic political considerations.

• Onnik Krikorian

Georgia

TOL Georgia comments on the country's failure to be accepted into the Membership Action Plan (MAP) by NATO at its recent summit in Bucharest. Citing the example of Albania, the blog is pessimistic about Georgia's chances of entering the alliance in the near future especially given a lack of progress in terms of democratization in the former Soviet republic.

• Onnik Krikorian

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