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9 October 2008

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Stories from 9 October 2008

Indonesia: Views on the U.S. Financial Crisis

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia, North America

Americans are afraid of another Great Depression as the Wall Street crisis continues to worsen. Meanwhile, many Indonesians are afraid that the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis will happen again if the U.S. economy continues to deteriorate.

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Kazakhstan: Language, Economics and Foreign Policy

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

The Kazakhstani authorities have again brought up the issue of state language. Kazakh language has been heavily depreciated in the Soviet times against the background of inculcation of Russian language....

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Egypt: Gaza Solidarity Activists Kidnapped, Abused and then Released

Written by Nermeen Edrees · Middle East & North Africa

While celebrating the 6th of October victory and in alliance with the International Solidarity Movement to break Gaza Siege, activists from different Egyptian civil entities, syndicates, and political parties decided to head to Gaza in an attempt to break the siege. The attempt was cut short by the Egyptian Security, and around 36 activists were ‘kidnapped' and detained.

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Updates from 9 October 2008

Iraq

Iraqi Sunshine shares family gathering over Eid in this post. “since the war started we couldn’t see each other except in occasions, we took a lot of pics,” she notes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

Bu Ziyad, from Kuwait, stumbled upon YouTube Islam. “No points for creativity -I have a feeling some copy rights are infringed. Anyways I'm sticking to the other You Tube,” he notes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Israel

‘Yesterday marked the beginning of Yom Kippur, or, the Day of Atonement in the Jewish faith. It is a pitiful irony then, that it should end in riots accompanied with chants of “death to the Arabs”, following an attack on an Israeli Arab man who merely tried to drive from one side of the city to the other,' writes Caledoniyya.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Saudi Arabia

Syrian-Saudi relations have reached an all low point, where even a Saudi newspaper has been banned. Sami Moubayed explains on Syria Comment.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Bahrain

From Bahrain, Mohammad Al-Ubaydli wants to teach his daughter how to be arrogant. “So for my daughters, it begins with teaching them to be as arrogant as men tend to be about their chances of success,” he observes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

Area 77, from Kuwait, has food on his thoughts. He asks: “Does anyone know if there’s an Asian Market in Kuwait? Or a place that sells Asian foods like tiny crabs and seaweed crackers and other stuff like that?”

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

From Kuwait, Twenty Three & Enjoying Life shares her thoughts on handy men. “Jeez, this morning, the AC guy came to clean the AC. He left and the place is so filthy. Dust everywhere. Why can’t they clean up after themselves?” she asks.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

No3ik, from Kuwait, shares her concerns about administering vaccines for babies. “a lot of ppl are shunning them for now and only giving them two years after birth .. to prevent some of what is believed to be harmful side affects (one of them is Autism!) and to give the baby's body a chance to build a stronger immune system,” she notes.

• Amira Al Hussaini

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