Global Voices · Citizen media stories from March 2010

March, 2010

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Stories from March, 2010

11 March 2010

Nepal: Tibet Uprising Anniversary Exposes Growing Rift

Nepal's forceful approach towards the Tibet Uprising Anniversary on March 10 and public programs that are organized by Tibetan refugees in the country is attracting criticism from Tibetan & Nepali blogs.

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Google, Yahoo & Other Tech Companies to Operate Freely in Cuba

Written by Susannah Vila · North America, Latin America

A recent decision by the United States Treasury Department to open up closed societies to American technology companies was met, at least for the first few hours, with radio silence in Cuba. The minimal reaction online is indicative of one of the biggest obstacles to this effort: social media works best with internet access.

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Thailand: The Red Shirts are coming!

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

The anti-government Red Shirts in Thailand are planning to stage a big rally this weekend. There is heightened tension and panic gripping the city of Bangkok. Bloggers share their views and observations.

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Japan: Bulwark of citizen journalism closes shop

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

JanJan, Japan Alternative news for Justices and NewCultures, Japan’s most popular news website based entirely on citizen journalism is about to suspend publication. At the end of March, the Japanese...

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Iran: OR318 memorial to blogger's death in prison

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa

The one year death anniversary of blogger and journalist Omid Reza Mir Sayafi is coming around and the OR318 movement is quite active, raising awareness regarding not only Omid's death in an Iranian prison but also the risks bloggers take when they decide to write.

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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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Updates from March, 2010

22 March 2010

India

Ashish at Desicritics discusses the merits and demerits of the recently passed Foreign Education Bill in India.

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Ahamed Bauani informs that twenty district websites of Bangladesh out of sixty four were hacked recently. The blogger suggests that the Bangladesh Government should take the incident seriously and install proper security measures.

• Rezwan

India

Soumyadip at Cutting The Chai got married last month in Delhi and was live tweeting from his wedding ceremony.

• Rezwan

United Arab Emirates

Arabmania questions the popularity for skin whitening creams in the Arab world, and gets lots of comments here.

• Katharine Ganly

China

Rebecca MacKinnon has summarized the viewpoints of some Chinese netizens who have issued an open letter to express their stand in censorship.

• Oiwan Lam

China

CDT translated a notification issued the the CCP's education bureau back in February which defines Oxfam Hong Kong an overseas organization that infiltrates into China.

• Oiwan Lam

China

PH from Veggie Discourse puts together various local reports on the “undetermined” causes led to death, disability, or serious sickness among nearly one hundred children in Shanxi. Many believe that the sickness and deaths are result of vaccines that are exposed to high temperature.

• Oiwan Lam