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Stories from 16 May 2009

India Votes for No Change: Indian Bloggers & Twitter Users React to #IndiaVotes09 Results

Written by Gaurav Mishra · Middle East & North Africa, South Asia

The results for the month long Indian Lok Sabha elections are out and India has voted back the incumbent Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) into power with a decisive verdict, surprising many observers. The Congress supporters are jubilant, and the BJP die-hards are understandably glum, but most neutral Indian bloggers and Twitter users are happy with the verdict, for more reason than one.

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India Elections 2009: Tapping Into The Twitter

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

As the results of the Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009 came trickling in since today morning, Indians from all around the world were glued on to their TV or pc screens to see the updates. The Twitter tag “#indiavotes09″ became the number one topic on the trends list of Twitter search as more an more Indians voiced their opinions and disseminated information about the election results via Twitter.

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India Elections 09: India votes decisively, decides to strengthen the hand of stability

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

Election results are pouring in from all across the country and it is now clear that India has voted decisively for a stable government at the center, under the leadership of the Congress-led UPA. Dr. Manmohan Singh is going to be the Prime Minister for a second consecutive term. Even before all the results are in, just going by the trends, the BJP-led NDA alliance has publicly conceded defeat.

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Bloggers raise funds for Brunei Special Olympics Team

Written by Senor Pablo · East Asia

In providing support to the Brunei Special Olympics team, local bloggers are creating awareness on the team’s forthcoming participation in the World Special Olympics in Athens in 2011. Major fundraising activities were held last May 3: a walkathon and bazaar.

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Angola: “Every city has its history, and ours is no different”

Written by Sara Moreira · Angola

In a time when Luanda's landscape is suffering big changes, citizens have come together to protect the city’s architectural heritage. In this post we explore bloggers' discussion of the need to save what is left of Luanda.

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Blogger of the week: Mong Palatino

Written by John Liebhardt · East Asia

Meet Mong Palatino. To Global Voices readers, he is the Regional Editor for Southeast Asia and Oceania. In his native Philippines, however, he is known by his full name, Raymond...

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Updates from 16 May 2009

Russia

As voting for the Eurovision Song Contest gets underway in Moscow, bartlemot tweets that the telephone number to vote for the Armenian entry in Azerbaijan was censored. In a second tweet, the same user says that instead of displaying a telephone number in the lower section of the screen it was instead left blank. Armenia also staged its own action with Twitter reporting that its host purposely showed a photograph of a statue in the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh three times intended to agitate viewers in Azerbaijan. Eurovision is notorious for its political undertones, but with the two countries deadlocked in efforts to resolve the long-standing conflict over Nagorno Karabakh since the May 1994 ceasefire, some feared the worse when both countries today showed up trending on Twitter.

• Onnik Krikorian

Morocco

Volan presents a photo and video story about the French Military Cemetery in Skopje that houses the remains of 2,930 soldiers from France and its colonies, including Morocco and Senegal, who have fallen during World War I on the Macedonian Front, aka Salonika front (1915-1918). The site presents a historical and architectural landmark, with а commanding view of the old part of the town.

• Filip Stojanovski

Bahrain

Bahraini blogger flymenian wonders why Bahrain has experienced so many sandstorms in recent years - and asks, “Could it just be the God Almighty is mad with us?”

• Ayesha Saldanha

India

AnIndianMuslim.com writes about the Lok Sabha election results 2009 published today: ” ‘The Congress' victory and its revival has surprised even the most optimistic party workers who till recently appeared unsure that they would be able to reach close to 190 seats. [..] Nobody had anticipated that the UPA would get the mandate once again, despite the anti-incumbency.

• Rezwan