Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 June 09

9 June 2008

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Stories from 9 June 2008

Sri Lanka: Free Media and the Government

Written by Neha Viswanathan · Citizen Media

Free Media on the Ministry of Defence in Sri Lanka attacking the free press.

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Bangladesh: Trade Deficit

Written by Neha Viswanathan · Citizen Media

Mukti on the issue of Bangladesh's trade deficit with India and China.

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India: Bullying bloggers, stealing content, and threats!

Written by Neha Viswanathan · South Asia

As bloggers, we're a vulnerable lot. Regardless of anonymity, pseudonyms and the like, threats can still make us review how important a blog is. The case of Inji Pennu and...

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Mexico: citizen complaint over land expropiation in Copala

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

In Copala [en], a town south of Acapulco in the province of Guerrero in Mexico, comes this video denouncing the alleged expropriation of lands belonging to Isabel Pisa and Fabiola...

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Iran: Judicial Investigator Publically Accuses Ayatollahs of Corruption

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

A member of Iran's Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, Abbas Palizdar, created a scandal this month by accusing several top clerics and influential members of the Islamic Republic of corruption...

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BlogCamp Delhi - Enlightening and entertaining!

Written by Amit Gupta · South Asia

24th May 2008 was sort of a remarkable day in the blogging circle in New Delhi and National Capital Region as Indian Blog and New Media Society, in collaboration with...

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China: Olympic Pandas now in Beijing

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Sina.com blogger EastIsRed66, who appears to be an employee of the Wolong Nature Reserve in Wenchuan, Sichuan, the hardest-hit area in last month's earthquake, has recently started a blog and has been posting photos of the eight Olympic Pandas who once lived there.

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Update on China's plastic bag ban

Written by Kelly Proctor · East Asia

New plastic bag rules went into effect throughout China on Sunday: now, ultra-thin plastic bags are banned, and shoppers need to pay a small fee for thicker ones. One supermarket...

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Updates from 9 June 2008

Peru

Sandro Medina Tovar of Letra Suelta [es] publicizes the conference 10Blog, which will be held on Thursday, June 12 in Lima, Peru. The conference will provide speakers on various topics dealing with the blogosphere, such as legal aspects of blogs and philosophical fundamentals of blogs.

• Eduardo Avila

China

Amid all the Chinese made merchandise, 7aki Fadi, a Jordanian who lives in Canada, finds Dead Sea minerals and mud masks made in her country.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Japan

“Is there a game show the Japanese haven’t invented yet?? Japanese Bug Fights is a site with videos of bugs of different species battling out in a small glass arena,” writes Lebanese blogger Mark, who lives in Kuwait.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

Kuwaiti blogger Frankom [Ar] questions the source of information of an Arabic news site which reported that half of Kuwait's 1 million-strong population lives below the poverty line.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Lebanon

From Lebanon, AK comments on a decision by new Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to postpone discussing Hizbullah's weapons until further notice.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Egypt

Egyptian Triple M shares videos of his favourite songs from the 90s in this post.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Lebanon

“When you still elect a murderer to a public office, you can’t really blame the government and its action. When you vote for a war criminal to lead you, don’t expect peace and harmony. When you leave a liar to stay in a government position, don’t blame that government for being hypocritical,” writes Nash about the responsibility of the Lebanese people for the corruption.

• Moussa Bashir

Jordan

Jordanian blogger Qwaider [Ar] ridicules some ideas by Arab inventors, which he says are “stupid.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

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