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21 October 2008

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Stories from 21 October 2008

Environment: Meetup of Green Bloggers in Capetown South Africa

Written by Juliana Rotich · South Africa

On October 11th 2008, Global Voices Environment, Carbon Smart and Urban Sprout organized a meetup for environment bloggers in Capetown South Africa. What follows is a rundown of what was...

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China: Microsoft vs. netizens

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

A hard battle is looming. Microsoft vs. millions of piracy users, international corporation vs. developing state, who will win the final victory?

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Bolivia: Pro-Government March Arrives to La Paz

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Tens of thousands of peasants, miners, coca-growers, and other supporters of the government of Evo Morales arrived in La Paz on Monday. What had originally started as a march to apply pressure to the Bolivian Congress to pass a law calling for a Referendum to approve the draft Constitution ended as a celebration when the lawmakers reached a compromise, and seemingly pacified the country after several volatile months.

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India: Regional chauvinism growing and no one to stop it!

Written by Amit Gupta · South Asia

Terrorism and nationalism on a regional scale are now spreading in India. The latest region which appeared in the headlines is the state of Maharashtra. Right wing politician Raj Thackeray...

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Updates from 21 October 2008

Poland

Sylwia Presley writes about her parents' village in Poland and ‘golden Polish fall’, among other things: “There is a sense of magic in the fact that Poles do not clear the paths from leaves - it makes the parks look like a golden carpet at this time of the year.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Poland

Sylwia Presley discusses some issues raised in Polly Courtney's novel about Polish immigrants in the U.K., “Poles Apart.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Bosnia Herzegovina

Romano Them re-posts a Reuters piece on the discovery of two mass graves containing the bodies of murdered Roma in Bosanski Dubočac, Bosnia & Herzegovina: “The order for the killings was issued by a number of Croatian Army generals, including Ante Prkačin, claims Nijaz Čaušević Medo, a former high ranking Croatian Army officer, as reported by Banja Luka daily Glas Srpske.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

IZO cites a post by LJ.Rossia.org user mrparker (RUS) about a somewhat panicky mistranslation of a Reuters news item on the financial situation by a Russian news agency. Also, a few notes on the banks, real estate and contemporary art in Ukraine.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Croatia

Hudin writes about “cyber squatting” on city and country names - and about what seems like a rare exception to the rule: rijeka.com, a photo gallery page for Rijeka, “Croatia's most northern coastal city east of the Istrian Peninsula.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

From the Frontline links to a report on the findings of the Dutch government investigation into the death of a Dutch TV cameraman in Georgia in August; according to the report, Stan Storimans was killed by a Russian cluster bomb. “In May 2008, more than 100 countries agreed to ban cluster bombs within eight years. Neither Georgia nor Russia signed the accord.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

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