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Bangladeshi blogger Akashlal Roy exposes yellow journalism of the Daily Jugantor, a Bangla daily which lifted a Facebook photo (added about a month ago) to depict an young girl drinking alcohol to celebrate the new year on the 31st night.
Nepali reports that the first day of the new year in Nepal was marked by a nationwide strike by the Indigenous Nationalities Broad Front (INBF). The blogger questions the necessity of such protest.
Alertpak informs that on the first day of new year a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the wall of a volleyball playground in Lakki Marwat (NWFP) in Pakistan. The death toll reported was 47 (including 10 minors) and the number is rising fast.
Sans Serif reports that two media giants - Jang from Pakistan and The Times of India from India - have joined hands in a peace initiative called ‘Aman ki Asha' on the first day of the new year. The aim is to foster greater understanding between people of the two countries and to give peace a chance.
All mobile phone subscribers across all networks in Sri Lanka received an SMS from the President in the morning of the first day of the new year containing a propaganda message and new year greeting. Groundviews criticized the unsolicited message and questioned the source of the expense.
As its first post for 2010, Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines remembers the two blogging youth activists sentenced last year to 2 and 2.5 years in prison. Commenting on a new video in support of Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli, the blog hopes that there will soon be justice.
First photographs from a Russian opposition rally in Moscow emerged on the Internet just hours after the event. The pictures are available on the blogs of LJ users drugoj and zyalt.
ESWN translated a local forum CNNB's review of the top 10 Internet phrases in China in 2009.
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==> As Africans we need to let go of our victimhood, inferiority complex & acceptance of the mediocre. We deserve...