Global Voices · Citizen media stories from October 2009

October, 2009

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Stories from October, 2009

17 October 2009

Tunisia: Electoral Campaign Not on Track

Written by Lina Ben Mhenni · Middle East & North Africa

Tunisia is gearing up for its presidential elections on October 25. The election campaign started on October 11, but not all political parties and politicians are able to join the fray. Read this post to find out why.

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Argentina: The Approval of a New Media Law

Written by Jorge Gobbi · Latin America

The Argentinean Senate approved a new law of audiovisual media, which establishes a new series of rules for the regulation of open signal, cable, and satellite television and radio.

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Egypt: Campaign Against Abusive Publishers

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

An Egyptian blogger and author has had it with dealing with unscrupulous publishers and is taking the initiative to make the voices of authors not given a chance a a sounding board. Check out what Marwa Rakha is up to and how successful her initiative is.

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Japan: Avatars come to life in the anime Summer Wars

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

Against the background of the Japanese countryside, feel good sentiments and an extraordinary virtual world are featured in Summer Wars (サマーウォーズSama wozu) [ja], the new animated movie by director Mamoru...

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Tunisia: Watching Arab Media on HIV/AIDS

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

Zied Mhirsi is a Tunisian doctor and blogger, based in the USA, who is dedicated to fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Middle East and North Africa. Last year, he started a blog to monitor Arab media coverage of HIV/AIDS.

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16 October 2009

Morocco: Blogoma participates in Blog Action Day

Written by Anas Alaoui · Middle East & North Africa

Moroccan bloggers expressed their concern for the environment on Blog Action Day 2009, which focused on climate change this year. Water scarcity and energy dominated the conversation, reports Anas Alaoui.

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Updates from October, 2009

27 October 2009

Pakistan

A recent report in a local newspaper asserts that some 70,000 fake doctors with bogus degrees are operating throughout Pakistan. Kamran Brohi points out to a facility in the Pakistan Medical And Dental Council Website with which one can check the registration status of a doctor from an online database.

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Bangladesh

Syed ABM Ashrafuzzaman thinks that in Bangladesh the existing laws relating to medical profession are anti people. The blogger urges that the doctors need to be disciplined by banning all their trade union like organizations.

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India

CyberGandhi analyzes the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2009 and the India State Hunger Index (ISHI). The blogger is appalled at the poor performance of India in those indexes.

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India

Ever heard of “Masala Sprite”? A Bengali mom shares the recipe of this “lovely drink which makes you feel it is digestive(?) and triggers your brain to eat more biryani”.

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China

Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a local report from Netease on a school bully incident and netizens' action in disclosing the girl's identity via human flesh search.

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China

berlintwitterwall is a project organized by the city of Berlin to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin wall. The wall is now filled up with messages from Chinese twitterers against the Chinese Great Fire Wall which blocks Chinese Internet user from connecting with the outside world.

• Oiwan Lam

26 October 2009

Azerbaijan

Writing on Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines on the eve of their next court hearing, Arzu Geybullayeva says she still hopes that detained video bloggers Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli will be released. She also says that the two online youth activists are an example to others and believes that that the situation in Azerbaijan will improve whatever happens.

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