Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 November 16

16 November 2008

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Stories from 16 November 2008

The Egyptian Hospital in Bagram

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt operates a small military hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan. The Press has just got wind of it - and a blogger wonders why such inspirational stories take a while for mainstream media to report on.

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Brazil: Flash mob protest against Digital Crimes Bill

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

Brazilian bloggers and netizens took to the streets of São Paulo to protest against the Digital Crimes Bill which typifies the cyber-crimes punishable by law and stipulates penalties accordingly, but might end up considering trivial conduct when surfing the Internet as a crime. At a public hearing held in the parliament, the project supporters "ended up sounding silly and unprepared".

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Korea: Why are you still single?

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

Autumn… fallen leaves and colorful trees, and a romantic season. Autumn is regarded as a season when you feel lonely, you feel a good appetite, and feel a strong reading...

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Egypt: Blogger Blocks Nawara's Blog

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

It seems that it is not only third world regimes who block people's blogs. Apparently, Google's Blogspot has decided to join the bandwagon, and has blocked Nawara Negm's Blog (Tahyees [Ar]), without specifying any reasons. Ahmed Shokeir writes here about the incident in Arabic.

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Updates from 16 November 2008

Iran

In Iranian.com we can watch beautiful clips of Iran made by an Italian traveler.

• Fred Petrossian

Brunei

Cuboiart from Brunei posts a cartoon depicting the complaint of customers against high commodity prices.

• Mong Palatino

Brunei

Jewelle reacts to a news report naming Brunei as the 9th happiest country in the world.

• Mong Palatino

Cambodia

Inside my Heart writes about how skin colors are viewed in Cambodian society.

• Mong Palatino

Iran

You can discover Iranian art Instructor Davar Yousefi 's paintings here.

• Fred Petrossian

Bahrain

Ali Abdulemam gives his perspective on the recent changes at Bahrain's Ministry of Information - describing the appointment of the new minister as revenge.

• Ayesha Saldanha

Japan

Blogger at Techtech to Tuzuru Nichijô Essay Book (テクテクとつづる日常エッセイブック) [jp] describes how, since the first week of November, Tokyo is already lit up for Christmas, everybody seems to walk faster, all the shops are already selling gifts and the big department stores are already displaying special dishes for the New Year. The blogger writes that it's almost as if, in this period of the year, someone has pushed down hard on the accelerator pedal, everything is moving so fast.

• Scilla Alecci

Japan

Yuko Shimonakamura at Yuko no Jinsei to Tigers [勇皇の人生とタイガース] comments with enthusiasm [jp] on the birth of a new baseball heroine, Eri Yoshida, the 16 y.o. high school student who will likely debut as a pitcher in the Kansai Independent League (関西独立リーグ) starting next spring and will play together with her male colleagues. Like many other bloggers [jp], Shimonakamura-san is forward to admiring the feats of the “new Yuki Mizuhara”, whose specialties include the “knuckleball” and the “underhand pitch”.

• Scilla Alecci

Taiwan: When News is Sold to the Chinese Government

First, let us ignore your assertion that at the time only 1% of young Chinese attended university because its not...

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