Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2009

December, 2009

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Stories from December, 2009

15 December 2009

Featured Author: Lina Ben Mhenni

Written by Eduardo Avila · Middle East & North Africa

Lina Ben Mhenni is a Tunisian blogger and has been writing about the Tunisian blogosphere for Global Voices. She is also an activist using the internet to raise awareness of the recent cases of a jailed student.

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14 December 2009

Canada said what? Phishing Spoof at Climate Change Summit

Written by Solana Larsen · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

The Canadian government supposedly released an angry statement today, denouncing a spoof that supposedly made it as far as the Wall Street Journal, claiming that Canada had shifted its policy and would be agreeing to greenhouse gas reduction targets.

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Guatemala: Stories and Artisan Crafts from The Ixil Triangle

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

Towns Santa María Nebaj, San Juan Cotzal and San Gaspar Chajul form the Ixil Triangle, located north of the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes. Because of its traditional hand-crafted clothing, the Chancol cheese, and its collection of myths and legends from the region, the place is one of the favorite destinations of hikers in Guatemala.

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Caribbean: New Media & Celebrity Fascination

Written by Karel McIntosh · North America, Caribbean

The fascination with celebrities has always been at a fever pitch, but in the current age of new media and consumer-generated content, it’s at an all-time high. While Caribbean bloggers do not tend to overly focus on gossip, they often tune in on the current story at hand.

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Tunisia: Student Jailed for Media Interview

Written by Lina Ben Mhenni · Middle East & North Africa

Tunisian activists have started a Facebook group and a blog in support of Mohamed Soudani, 24, who disappeared on October 22, 2009, in Tunisia, after giving interviews to Radio Monte Carlo International and Radio France International. Friends have since learned he was detained and tortured.

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China: Another elite's suicide - the story of Yang Yuanyuan

Written by Jennifer Cheung · East Asia

YANG Yuanyuan, a 30-year-old postgraduate at Shanghai Maritime University, hanged herself in her bathroom on November 25. She told her mother that knowledge cannot change destiny on the day before she...

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Updates from December, 2009

25 December 2009

China

C.A. Yeung pointed out that the harsh sentence of Liu Xiaobo to 11 years on subversion charges implied a open rejection of public demands for democratic reforms by the Chinese Communist Party. The blogger also translated Chinese dissident Wang Dan's brief comment on Liu's sentence.

• Oiwan Lam

India

Mumbai based creative professional Harish Iyer, who blogs at The Pregnant Thoughts, discusses how he was subjected to child sex abuse in his teens and how it changed his life.

• Rezwan

Pakistan

There are some myths and misconceptions in Pakistan about the Shia sect of Muslims. Faisal Kapadia at Deadpan Thoughts starts a series to debunk those myths.

• Rezwan

Cambodia

GK Network Blog shares links of Cambodian blogs which upload gay novels on their blogs

• Mong Palatino

Cambodia

GK Network Blog is described as Cambodia's first gay blog. The site aims to raise awareness of straight people about gays and their rights.

• Mong Palatino

Malaysia

The Malaysian blog, Blogopshere Social Responsiblity, publishes stories of people around Malaysia who are in need of financial support. The blog wants to promote “a new culture in the Malaysian blogosphere which centres upon the idea of social responsibility.”

• Mong Palatino