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15 December 2008

Daily archive · 11 posts

Stories from 15 December 2008

China: “08 Charter” Signers Arrested and Questioned by Police

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

Big Brother searching and questioning people involved in an collective appeal for democracy.

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Brazil: Manifesto For The Immediate Release of Graffiti Painter

Written by Paula Góes · Latin America

While a police officer who mistakenly killed a boy of just three has been acquitted of murder, a graffiti painter arrested on October 26 for spraying the walls of the Art Bienal of São Paulo's pavilion spent her 24th birthday in jail. Bloggers comment on the ironies and discrepancies of the Brazilian judicial system.

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Israel: No Limit Texas Dreidel

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

My Right Word explains the rules for No Limit Texas Dreidel, combines the traditional dreidel game with Texas Hold'em poker.

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Malawi: Murderous Thanksgiving, AIDS Day and crossing the Zimbabwean border

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

Victor Kaonga highlights a few posts from blogs about Malawi: an expat Thanksgiving, World Aids Day and a long bus trip from Malawi to South Africa with an interesting border crossing in Zimbabwe.

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Bangladesh: Bloggers unearth the fake Taj Mahal scam

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

If you cannot visit the Taj Mahal at Agra (India) then the Taj Mahal will have to visit you in your home town. Since the last few days, we have...

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China: Charter 08, to be free and fearless

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia, North America

At the Eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Dec 10, 303 prominent intellectuals and human rights activists in China, jointly...

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Updates from 15 December 2008

Ukraine

A roundup of Ukrainiana's December posts: Ukraine and NATO; the math of the Russian-Ukrainian relations; ex-defense minister on “martial economic law”; Ukrainian PM's Chanel necklace and the First Lady's Chanel handbag vs. the president's call “to ‘live without' expensive foreign-made items in times of crisis”; the beating of Baba Paraska - who “represents the Orange Revolution as Joe the Plumber represents the American middle class” - by the president's guards; and other updates.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Some of the Russian/Soviet history December highlights at De Rebus Antiquis Et Novis: Birobidzhan demographics; Cherubina de Gabriak and the duel between Maximilian Voloshin and Nikolay Gumilyov; Vladimir Gilyarovsky; the Soviet war in Afghanistan; and a cookbook by Elena Molokhovets.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Armenia

Unzipped comments on news that seven prominent opposition member including one former foreign minister and three MPs are due to go on trial in Yerevan later this week charged with attempting to violently overthrow the government after the presidential election held earlier this year. The blog says that all signs are that the international community is keeping a watchful eye on proceedings and that in a country where the independence of the judiciary is questionable to say the least, notes that the opposition have set up their own blog to monitor the trial.

• Onnik Krikorian

Maldives

Unique Maldives is a Flickr group dedicated to images of or from Maldives only. So far it has more than 1100 members and more than 17000 photograph entries. Similar groups on Maldives in Flickr are Networld - Connecting Maldives and Simply Maldives.

• Rezwan

Bhutan

Tshering Tobgay, a Member of Parliament of Bhutan and the leader of the opposition party, writes about the Folk Life Festival in Punakha in his blog.

• Rezwan

Israel

Jewlicious comments on the new interfaith phenomena of Chrismukkah (a combination of Christmas and Hanukkah) that “is supposed to be a warm event that celebrates tolerance and diversity, but all to often, multi-faith marriages leave the children confused or annoyed and what is meant to inspire diversity ends up inspiring nausea and annoyance. Why? Because kids are smart and they have a low threshold for bullshit. They know that Mommy and Daddy aren’t particularly good practitioners of whatever religion they are”.

• Deborah Ann Dilley