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The blog “Crossroads,” which looks at corporate social responsibility in China, draws our attention to a an article about an 11-year-old environmentalist in southwest China. The youngster took it upon...
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David writes connecting to the mobile web in Mozambique: “This morning I helped a Mozambican colleague get set up with Yahoo! Mail. He’s pretty hip on the mobile media side of his phone. He knows how to connect to the Internet and visit web pages. But setting him up with his own email account was fraught with obstacles.”
Students at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in Bahrain cannot spell New York, complains Redbelt, who posts a picture to prove his point.
Five hundred dairy factory workers staged a sit in and Hossam El Hamalawy from Egypt posts a picture here. The protesters are worried they would lose their jobs - after reporting to work after a month's paid leave - only to be told that they should take another two weeks off, while maintenance work continues on the plant. Workers report that there is no work being done on the factory.
“Thought Leader has been named an official honoree by the Webby Awards, alongside blogs by CNN, CBS News, The New Yorker, CNBC, The New York Times, TIME and the Observer Media Group. This puts Thought Leader in the top 15 political blogs in the world and the only blog in its category from Africa,” Vincent Maher reports.
From Egypt, blogger Hossam El Hamalawy updates us on the conditions of those arrested in the recent Al Mahalla protests and clashes, over inflation and increasing salaries. They include bloggers, journalists and activists.
Bassem Hassan explains the “simple” things that qualify someone as a Lebanese leftist.
“So now the headline is that there is ‘unrest' in the Gaza strip. Last week, I felt unrestful: I didn't know whether to take chicken taouk or shwarma - but I didn't kill five children in the process…” Burghol commenting on how the media reports about Gaza.
“When religion sleeps with politics, the outcome is an ugly bastard,” declares Tantalus while suspecting the beginning of the “Sunnification” of the late Rafic Hariri, who was previously dubbed as “Pan-Lebanese.”
“In Lebanon, everybody live in community. Everything you’re doing have to be known, by your friends, your family, your neighbors… it is show-off all the time,” observes élodie while writing about Lebanese fascination with social networking such as Facebook.
Wouldn't you hate it if someone waited for you to go pray, to steal your… chocolates?! Kinan from Jar of Juice, shares his “bitter” experience with a co-worker.
that map? Philippines and Malaysia are the closest to the Spratly this other map contained in your second link? Only...
Do you know the Philippine government is one of the BIGGEST LAND GRABBERS in the South China Sea? Philippine has...
Unfortunately, covering the Red Shirts as if they are pro-democracy and victims of state crimes, leads me to doubt your...
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any upcoming events in delhi ...?