Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 October 19

19 October 2008

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Stories from 19 October 2008

Japan: Media Bias in Potato Field Eviction?

Images appearing on Japanese TV of government forces evicting crying nursery school children from potato fields in Osaka, part of plans to extend a highway (the Second Keihan Highway) between Kyoto and Osaka, has sparked many on the Japanese net to respond with accusations of media bias.

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Bangladesh: Sculptures, Bigots and Bloggers

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

A new controversy rattled Bangladesh last week. Authorities in Bangladesh were forced to remove five sculptures of Bauls (mystic folk singers) including Fakir Lalon Shah in front of the Zia...

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Angola: On the sadness and happiness of being a returnee

Written by Clara Onofre · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

Angola, 1975. The country had just become independent and the former Portuguese colonizers, as well as their families and many Angolan citizens, had to flee leaving everything they had behind. 30 years later, they blog the tale of being returnees and about the sadness and happiness this change in their fortunes brought them. See a video of the dramatic mass emigration.

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South Africa: A New Era In The Fight Against AIDS?

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Sub-Saharan Africa

In late September Barbara Hogan was appointed as South Africa's new health minister by interim President Kgalema Motlanthe, ousting her controversial predecessor Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. AIDS activists and many South Africans...

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Updates from 19 October 2008

Syria

Here comes the winter, announces Syrian blogger Sasa. After a heat wave, a rain storm took the Syrian capital by surprise. “So do we get those winter clothes out or not?” he asks.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Morocco

From Morocco, Hassi Milli shares scenes from the Beni Znassen mountains.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Palestine

Under a post entitled Shame on Us, Palestinian Leila notes: “Until we cleanse these heinous sins, adhere and submit to what we know Islam to be, then we deserve to live in this shame and we deserve the scorn the world levies at us.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

Kuwait

From Kuwait, Chikapappi complains about stray cats in her neighbourhood. “I don’t know what we could do as citizens and people living in here in Kuwait to solve this problem, they’re populating like rats and believe me, those cats are full of diseases..” she remarks.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Iraq

Roads to Iraq notes: “Strange attack from the Egyptian newspaper Al- Gomhuria on Syrian Prime Minister Mohammad Attri and accusing Syria with spreading Shiaism.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

Macedonia

The blog devoted to the “Computer for Every Child” project gives updates [MKD] from the biggest school in Macedonia: […] “Because of the old electrical installation in the school the computers in this high school won’t be installed and used throughout the whole school year.” […]

• Elena Ignatova

Iraq

Inside Iraq draws our attention to the abuse of power in Iraq and how those with guns are in control. “The way those people who have guns behave makes me like many Iraqi civilians feel that Iraq became a wild jungle where survival is only for the strongest. This kind of feeling kills the soul of patriotism in the hearts of people.”

• Amira Al Hussaini

Mozambique

Paulo Granjo [pt] blogs about a piece of news that local newspapers in Mozambique didn't pay much attention to: an accidental leak of aniline gas in a Mozambican chemical plant caused 14 casualties. Nobody has died. “The information has been provided by the Relief Operations District Command and it is likely that nobody will ask the concerned company what happened and why”.

• Paula Góes

Ukraine: Homophobic Legal Initiatives in Sync with Public Attitudes

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