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9 September 2009

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Stories from 9 September 2009

Hungary: Budapest Gay Pride Parade Protected

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

Marietta Le reports on the blog coverage of the 14th Gay Pride March, which took place in Budapest on Sept. 5 under increased police protection.

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Palestine: Travelers Say Israel is Illegally Denying Access

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Travelers to the Palestinian West Bank are now facing new restrictions. Visas obtained from Israeli consulates for their visit are stamped "Palestinian Authority areas only" in violation of the 1995 Oslo II Accords which allow unhindered movement for foreign travelers to Israel. Jillian C. York reports.

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Egypt: Bad Boys Who do not Moderate Blog Comments

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Journalist and blogger Khaled El Balshy has recently been subpoenaed by State Security and charged of slander because he did not delete a “bad” comment that was left on one of his blog posts dating back to 2007.

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Puerto Rico: Superaquello Explores Cyberspace

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Latin America

Superaquello is one of Puerto Rico's most beloved alternative bands. Their experimental mix of traditional pop, electronic music, and typical Puerto Rican rhythms have hypnotized music lovers since the band was born in 1997. Lately Superaquello has been experimenting with something more than music: the Internet.

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Costa Rica: Web 2.0 on a Sunday Morning

Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Latin America

Costa Rican bloggers, twitter users and other internet enthusiasts enjoyed their own first Domingo En La Mañana (Sunday Morning) on August 30, 2009, where they shared knowledge and experience with one another.

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China: Considering Han chauvinism

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

"Within the ranks of CCP cadres, it's not only ethnic minorities who have been deprived of their religious rights, but the Han majority too...As a Han born and raised in China, we really don't see any so-called Han chauvinism!"

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Updates from 9 September 2009

Albania

Albanian Blogger links to an article about the former Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, which appeared in the Guardian: “Also the picture of the statue of the dictator in the main square, which was pulled down by protesters about 19 years ago brings back memories for me. I was very young then, but I did witness the event at less than 100 meters from it.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Updates

Jordan's Facebook users are joining hands in protest against what they describe as bad Internet services in their country through forming this group.

• Amira Al Hussaini

Poland

Ukrainiana cites this year's Prices and Earnings report by UBS, Europe's second-largest bank: “On average, it takes 82 hrs of work to buy an iPod Nano in Kyiv, compared to 10.5 hrs in Toronto, 9 hrs in New York, 36 hrs in Moscow and 45.5 hrs in Warsaw.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

MoldovAnn writes about Kyiv's new Art Arsenal museum.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Belatedly, a link to Michelle Knisley's photos of Kyiv schoolgirls celebrating the first day of school on Sept. 1, 2009.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Israel

The Foreigner's Guide to Slovakia writes about WWII and the Jews of Slovakia. CzechFolks.com writes about the rescue of hundreds of Czechoslovak Jewish children by Sir Nicholas Winton in 1939. Polandian writes about “the crazy idea of moving Eastern European Jews to Madagascar” that was considered by Poland in 1937.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Trinidad & Tobago

Bandwagonist.com comments on parts of the Trinidad and Tobago 2009-2010 Budget that deal with transportation.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Brazil: 100-year-old grandma realises parachute dream

I have just had some news about Iaiá, from Alcinéia. She did another jump at the end of last year,...

Sir/madam, I was disapointed for everytime I wish to watch action movies online it was blocked and this is my only...

Black March Boycott protest ACTA, do NOT buy Movies, Music or Video Games for the month of March. Get the...
Great article,great job.Even though we have much bigger problems in Bulgaria than ACTA i feel proud and happy that young...
Next time we will be there again :)