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9 October 2009

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Stories from 9 October 2009

Egypt: No Accolades for Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa, North America

Egyptian bloggers and Twitter users welcomed US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize with shock and surprise: How can the president of a country waging wars against far away countries win a peace prize? Tarek Amr has more in this round up of reactions from Egypt.

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Caribbean: Obama & the Nobel Peace Prize

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · North America, Caribbean

Barack Obama can now add another prestigious title to his already impressive resume: Nobel Laureate. Caribbean bloggers react.

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China: The Founding of a Republic! Propaganda, or a commercial success with some irony?

Written by Robert Woo · East Asia

Only 3 weeks after hitting the screen, The Founding of a Republic has already taken in nearly $ 60 million. Naturally, it has created a huge stir in China’s online...

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South Asian Bloggers On Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

US President Barack Obama received the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize today. Bloggers and micro-bloggers from South Asia are expressing their reactions on the news.

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Gabon’s bloggers struggle to take hold

Written by Andriankoto Ratozamanana · Sub-Saharan Africa

Adriankoto Harinjaka Ratozamanana, a Global Voices in Malagasy translator, went to Gabon to help report the presidential election on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs in a country where journalists are at risk. Here is his story.

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Ghana: We Still Remember Kwame Nkrumah

Written by Gayle Pescud · Sub-Saharan Africa

"In a dusty, browning album belonging to my late father, I found the above photograph of the first President of Ghana, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah..," writes Ghanaian blogger, Abena.

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United Kingdom: Tracking government information on transparency websites

Written by Judith Townend · Western Europe

Holding government accountable in the UK is becoming easier thanks to the gradual opening of public data and several new fantastic online resources by citizens.

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Oman: Twitter Meet Up

Written by Riyadh Al Balushi · Middle East & North Africa

Oman had its first Twitter gathering last night. More than 25 Twitter users attended the event and here are blog and Twitter reactions to how it went.

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Egypt: Niqab Ban Stirs Controversy

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Egypt's top leading Islamic leader, Sheikh Mohammed Tantawi told a 13-year-old student to uncover her face, saying it was not part of the religious obligations of Muslim women. A few days later, Egypt banned female undergraduates from wearing the niqab in the country's public universities. Bloggers join in the debate.

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Updates from 9 October 2009

France

Popkitchen writes about the murder of Brice Tatone, a French football fan, in Belgrade. (More on the reactions of Serbian bloggers - in Sinisa Boljanovic's GV post.)

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Ukrainiana writes about PM Yulia Tymoshenko's evolution “from Gas Princess to Queen of Populism to Dictatress.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Evgeny Morozov comments on “one of the most cogent and frank interpretations of how the Kremlin views the Internet,” delivered by Sergey Mironov, “who heads ‘A Just Russia' - one of those Kremlin-affiliated parties - and presides over the Russian Federation Council - the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Barbados

“To most sensible observers the problems of West Indies cricket can only be solved by revamping the current monolithic West Indies Cricket Board”: Barbados Underground wonders whether the organisation has the resolve to reinvent itself.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Bermuda

“Would the UBP be better off focusing on the issues at hand…rather than focusing on self promotion?”: Bermudian 21 Square says that the “I told you so” approach isn't working.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Guyana

Imran Khan notices that “Social media is breaking convention even in Guyana”, adding that once people understand its power, it “will revolutionize how things are sold and events are promoted.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

From Trinidad and Tobago, Gab Hosein posts another installment of her video series, “If I were Prime Minister…”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Pakistan

“Another frustrated but conscientious youth tried to hit an American with shoe,” reports Talkhaba at Pakistan Desk. Yesterday a Karachi University student threw a shoe at Clifford May, a visiting American journalist and president of a conservative think tank narrowly missing the target. Muhammad Hussain, the shoe thrower, told the press: “it was the attitude of (the) American Scholar which compel(led) me to hurl shoe at him”.

• Rezwan