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April, 2009

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Stories from April, 2009

20 April 2009

Jamaica: Hostages Released

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · North America, Caribbean

Breaking news in Jamaica this morning is that a hostage situation has developed with the crew of a Canadian jet at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. Canadian mainstream media is since reporting that the situation was resolved without any loss of life when "an anti-terrorism unit of the Jamaican military stormed the plane and disarmed the gunman", but bloggers Caribbean-wide and throughout the diaspora are still in disbelief.

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Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria

Written by Juhie Bhatia · Sub-Saharan Africa, North America

This past week Twitter became the newest weapon in the fight against malaria when American actor Ashton Kutcher challenged news network CNN to a race to get a million Twitter followers. The winner of the competition vowed to donate mosquito bed nets in time for World Malaria Day on April 25.

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Kazakhstan: Blackout in Almaty

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Last Wednesday, April 15, due to damage of the high-voltage power line Toktogul-Frunze (the largest line in the Kyrgyz Republic), most enterprises and even strategic buildings in towns of the...

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Jackie Chan: Chinese need control

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

“I'm mot sure if it's good to have freedom or not, I'm really confused now. If there is too much freedom, like the way Hong Kong is today, it is...

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Latin America: Pride on Local Musicians in YouTube's Symphony Orchestra

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Latin America

Latin American bloggers have been writing about the YouTube Symphony Orchestra's debut at the Carnegie Hall, where the winners of a world-wide online contest where were flown into New York to participate in this collaborative orchestra. Following, some of the winners selected to play at Carnegie Hall, and how some of them weren't able to make their dream come true.

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Moldova: “Making Sense of Recent Events”

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Below is a follow-up to the three earlier GV posts on the blog coverage of the protests and rioting in Chisinau, Moldova, that followed the April 5 election.

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Updates from April, 2009

27 April 2009

India

Harini Calamur at the Point Of View gives logic why she is voting for the Congress Party in the Indian Elections 2009.

• Rezwan

Haiti

jmc strategies reports that ” the New York City Council adopted…a resolution urging Congress to pass legislation granting Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Haitian nationals in the United States.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bangladesh

MysticSaint at Inspirations and Creative Thoughts visited the Ramakrishna Temple of Dhaka and wrote about Sri Sri Ramakrishna (February 18, 1836 - August 16, 1886), a remarkable mystic saint of Bengal.

• Rezwan

Trinidad & Tobago

“In Trinidad and Tobago engineers and scientist are not encouraged to build and innovate”: This Beach Called Life explains.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

“I've come to the conclusion that there is some irrational link between the price of gas in Jamaica and public tolerance levels”: Annie Paul thinks that the imposition of the gas tax is “long overdue”.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

‘If you can have a tree growing in you, what kind of tree you would want?” Guyana-Gyal poses an interesting question.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

South Africa

Sokari writes about Fredom Day in South Africa: Today is Freedom Day in South Africa. However for many in SA the notion of freedom is as illusive as ever as under the new apartheid where the poor are disenfranchised and excluded through the Kwa Zula-Natal Slums Act.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Brazil: Communities in Rio Blame Olympics for Evictions

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