Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 October 05

5 October 2008

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Stories from 5 October 2008

Blogger of the week: Rezwan

Global Voices new South Asia editor, Rezwan, from Bangladesh has been with Global Voices as a volunteer author since 2005. Memorable posts by Rezwan include a report on Twittering' an earthquake in Bangladesh, and a story of colorful but expensive Bangladeshi weddings. He replaces the illustrious Neha Viswanathan as South Asia editor.

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Brazil: 128 million vote on the anniversary of the Constitution

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

Over 128 million Brazilians are expected to go to the polls today and choose 5,563 mayors for cities and towns, and 52,137 city councilors. The date marks the 20th anniversary of the current Brazilian Constitution. See historic photos of that day in October 05, 1988 and some of today's voting.

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China milk scandal and Southeast Asia

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

Like the rest of the world, the China milk scandal has shocked Southeast Asian countries. China is the major trading partner of Southeast Asian nations. How did governments, consumers, and bloggers from the region react to the issue?

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Hong Kong: Netizen Against Introduction of Internet Filtering

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

The Hong Kong government has issued a consultation paper on the “Review of the Control of Obscene and Indecent Articles Ordinance” last Friday (Oct 3). The first round of consultation...

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Updates from 5 October 2008

Singapore

Red Roses, Gold Thorns from Singapore opposes the proposal to use breast milk in making ice cream products.

• Mong Palatino

Philippines

After reading an interview of US vice president candidate Sarah Palin, a popular Filipino blogger comments: “The woman has no idea what she’s talking about! It is not sexist to call a dimwit a dimwit, especially if she’s running for the vice-presidency.”

• Mong Palatino

Japan

The GLOCOM blog has a report (in both English and Japanese) on new JICA president Sadako Ogata's [緒方貞子] presentation Oct. 2nd at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ), which follows on the Oct. 1st consolidation of much of Japan's Official Developmental Assistance (ODA) through the merging of JICA and JBIC (Japan Bank for International Cooperation). The report describes Ogata's presentation as “one of the most impressive luncheon speeches at FCCJ in recent years.”

• Chris Salzberg

Japan

In a post entitled “Google, the anti-social corporation” [ja], former Mainichi journalist and writer/blogger Hiroyuki Fujishiro [藤代裕之] at Gatonews picks up on an ongoing series of posts [ja] by blogger and security researcher Hiromitsu Takagi [高木浩光] criticizing Google's handling of the roll-out of its Street View service in Japan. Fujishiro notes that while business aspects of Google are generally viewed positively, there is a need for more discussion on various issues relating to privacy, censorship, security/trust and culture.

• Chris Salzberg