Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 September 29

29 September 2008

Daily archive · 9 posts

Stories from 29 September 2008

Lebanon: Army Soldiers Targeted…Again

Written by Nash Suleiman · Middle East & North Africa

Forty five days after the first bombing of a bus transporting army soldiers in Lebanon, another bomb exploded in Tripoli today, killing at least four soldiers and wounding over 20...

· read »

Egypt: Kidnapped Tourists Freed

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Nineteen people, including foreign tourists, kidnapped in Egypt 10 days ago have been freed. Egyptian bloggers react.

· read »

Lebanon: Terror strikes in Tripoli again

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

A remote control car bomb ripped through a military bus this morning killing four soldiers and a civilian in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon. Today’s bombing is the second deadly attack targeting troops in northern Lebanon in less than two months. Following are the first reactions from bloggers about the incident.

· read »

Palestine: Retaining a sense of humanity in Gaza

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

As the situation in Gaza deteriorates from one day to the next, many are struggling not only with the enormous difficulties of daily life, but with the change in values they see around them, in a society that has become dominated by Islamist thinking. In this post, a blogger in Gaza writes a passionate cry of despair.

· 2

· read »

Pakistan: Zardari flirts and the Blogosphere reacts

Written by Farhan Janjua · South Asia

The president of Pakistan Mr. Asif Ali Zardari met with the US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in New York recently and used flirtatious words during the discussion. It seemed...

· 4

· read »

Sudan: Returning to Sudan, US Politics and New Media

Written by SudaneseDrima · Sub-Saharan Africa

In this round up of the Sudanese blogosphere, we delve into Sudanese commentaries on Sudan, US politics, and new media. It's good to see that the blogger, Path2Hope, finally overcame her writer's block. Apparently she needed a space to vent her anger after she returned to Sudan.

· read »

Myanmar: Aid still needed

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Five months after the devastating cyclone which killed and displaced at least a hundred thousand people, Myanmar is slowly recovering. Relief efforts may be improving but international aid is still very much needed.

· 4

· read »

Korea: Ceremonial Expenses

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

What is your biggest expense? A website, www.career.co.kr, did a survey of 1,676 employees, and asked them which of their expenses they consider worthless. The highest percentage answered drinking and...

· read »

Deaf Awareness Week: Organizing Offline activities Online

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Western Europe, Latin America

This last segment of the Deaf Awareness Week (part 1, part 2) shows us how the deaf use their videos to organize their communities and strenghten their offline ties.

· 2

· read »

Updates from 29 September 2008

Nepal

Revolution in South Asia blog posts a translation of an article (from Farsi) titled “Nepal Revolution: Great Victory or Great Danger,” which is an explicit polemic by the Communist Party of Iran (MLM) — targeting the path taken by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

• Rezwan

Maldives

Innovative Thinker is concerned about the living conditions of the expatriate workers and criticizes Maldives dependence on these workers.

• Rezwan

Pakistan

Teeth Maestro is furious because without concrete evidence the international media suggested that the two Somali suspects arrested in Germany were intending to join terrorists in Uganda and Pakistan.

• Rezwan

Kazakhstan

Joshua Foust wonders if the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle will make Baikonur space launch site in Kazakhstan even more important than it already is.

• Adil Nurmakov

Afghanistan

Joshua Foust thinks that long-term development goals are a critically missing piece of the Western agenda in Afghanistan.

• Adil Nurmakov

Afghanistan

Joshua Foust takes issue with an essay about how to “win” in Afghanistan.

• Adil Nurmakov

India

Pass The Roti On The Left Side comments on the second bombing incident in Delhi in recent times: “While you can pitch this in communal terms or identity terms of various kinds.., ultimately, this is driven in my opinion by economic factors which are understood in politics through communal and caste-based and other mobilizations, actions, etc..”

• Rezwan

Afghanistan

Joshua Foust notes some of the problems with the American conceptions of Afghan society, and how that is influencing bad policy.

• Adil Nurmakov

Bangladesh

Claire b writes in Travel Blog about her recent trip to Srimongol in Sylhet division where the tea-estates are in Bangladesh: “My guide urged me to try the 5 colored (layered) tea apparently famous in the region..it was one of the best cups/glasses of tea I’ve had.”

• Rezwan

Mongolia

Asian Gypsy reports that brain drain problem Mongolia faces is more evident now than ever, as overseas Mongolian online communities sprout and more Mongolians are active online, whose locations are mostly outside of Mongolia.

• Adil Nurmakov

Ukraine: Homophobic Legal Initiatives in Sync with Public Attitudes

Came to find this post after signing the AllOut petition (which already has almost 50k signatures, and needs to grow...
Please sign this if you are pro