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Bangkok Twestival organizers happily announced that the event raised more than US$600 for the benefit of two orphanages.
nganadeeleg blames the elite for making it impossible to implement reforms in Thailand today.
The Bhutanese government is thinking about increasing the taxes and other fees levied on vehicles to control the increasing number of cars. Tshering Tobgay opines that the import quota system for the bureaucrats should be abolished to control traffic congestion. Bhutanese Blogger at Whatever Matters comments that the government should postpone the plan to a later date until there is an improvement in the public transportation system.
Faisal at Deadpan Thoughts writes about the encroaching religious institutions and the vanishing parks of Karachi.
Indian Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor was caught up in a controversy for replying a twitter message. Über Desi has details.
Dario Orellana came across some signs of protest at the Sports Federation of the Ecuadorian province of Azuay. Many of these signs say that coaches have been working for three months without contracts [es] and other accusations of corruption.
The project WiFi El Alto has been experimenting with using the OLPC XO and Classmate laptops with the community wifi signal [es] in the Rio Seco neighborhood in El Alto, Bolivia.
I will not support this kind of crap stories, because whenever there is a civil war, where the opposite parties...
In Peru, the incidents often occur
Good article, thanks. I see it was a lot of work translating!!
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The next Crisis Camp Italy will take place in Bologna on the 17th of march. The topic on the agenda...