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Stories from 10 March 2010

Bulgaria: CME Buys Bulgaria's Most Watched TV Channel

Written by Ruslan Trad · Eastern & Central Europe

Ruslan Trad reports on the recent sale of bTV, one of the most popular TV channels in Bulgaria, to Central European Media Enterprises.

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Middle East: Mourning the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque

Written by Eman AbdElRahman · Middle East & North Africa

Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, has died at age 81. Reactions to his death have varied from mourning to critical recollections of his many controversial fatwas.

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Chile: Earthquake Reveals Social Inequalities

Written by Felipe Cordero · Latin America

The quick burst of lawlessness that ensued after the February 27 earthquake in Chile sparked a national debate about the existing social and economic inequalities in the country.

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Ecuador: Guayaquil Demands Greater Budget Allocation

Written by Milton Ramirez · Latin America

The municipal government of Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently held a "March for Dignity" demanding greater budget allocation from the central government. However, it was also an opportunity for its Mayor, Jaime Nebot, to take on a more visible political opposition to the President.

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Azerbaijan: Confusion over Internet problems with Azadliq site

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

In the past few days in Azerbaijan, some users have complained that many sites, including Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Facebook, were inaccessible. When one news site was affected, however, some Internet users feared the worst.

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China: Do Chinese people live with dignity?

Written by Robert Woo · East Asia

China’s top leader has made a historic statement regarding human rights and human dignity which has posed both doubts and meaningful questions. During this year's Spring Festival, China's Premier Wen Jiabao made the unusually phrased statement that his government vowed to "make Chinese people more dignified".

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China: The First Chinese Novel on Twitter?

Written by Andy Yee · East Asia

Lian Yue, an ex-teacher and ex-procurator and now a famous blogger and political commentator in China, announced on his blog that he is starting a novel, entitled 2020, on twitter this month. According to the blog, the novel will last until 2020.

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Peru: Flight Attendant Becomes Internet Celebrity

Written by Gabriela García Calderón · Latin America

Due to some very special welcoming words that were captured on video, the chief flight attendant on a TACA airlines flight, César Soto, has become the newest YouTube sensation in Peru.

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Updates from 10 March 2010

Russia

Israpil Shovhalov and Abdulla Duduev, two journalists of the “Dosh” online magazine were kidnapped on March 9, 2010 in the Republic of Ingushetia, one of the most unstable regions in Russia, Kavkazky Uzel reported [RUS].

• Alexey Sidorenko

Azerbaijan

Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines comments on today's appeal court ruling upholding the sentencing of video blogging youth activists Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli. Adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, the blog posts two video tributes and says that both men are “ordinary people with extraordinary talent” and that “their creativeness has no limits, their thinking has no boundaries.”

• Onnik Krikorian

Bahamas

Bahamian Nicolette Bethel questions the staying power of a Ministry of Tourism marketing campaign which commissioned 14 films from British filmmakers. Here's what peeves her: “It’s the idea that lies at the heart of the way in which the Bahamian government spends its money: ‘their output is likely to be perceived as more credible than material produced by Bahamians about their own country.'”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

KnowTnT.com feels “compelled to write about the elephant - or in T&T, the Manicou - in the middle of the room. Inertia.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Trinidad & Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago's fake Prime Minister blogs from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, here and here.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

The blog of the National Gallery of Jamaica pays tribute to the late painter and sculptor Osmond Watson.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Barbados

Barbadian bloggers report that three men have been charged with the recent murder of a retired senior police officer.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Macedonia

Igor Mihajlovski published [MKD] an interesting analysis of number of views of Macedonian pop songs on YouTube, sorting them by time periods (1945-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2010). He included videos of the late international star Toshe Proeski, whose interpretation of folk song “Zajdi zajdi” is the ‘winner' with almost 4 million views. The results also show that duets with foreign artists definitely draw eyeballs, and point to the rise of popularity of hip hop.

• Filip Stojanovski

Azerbaijan

Rufatagayev tweets that an appeal court in Baku, Azerbaijan, today upheld a previous court ruling sentencing two video blogging youth activists to 2 and 2.5 years in prison. Most observers consider the case again Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli to be politically motivated and Amnesty International have since declared the two men to be prisoners of conscience.