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March, 2010

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Stories from March, 2010

23 March 2010

Nepal: Death of a polarizing 'statesman'

Former Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala passed away on Saturday March 21st, after prolonged illness. The legacy of this often controversial and polarizing figure is being discussed by Nepali bloggers.

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Pakistan: Child Abuse On The Rise

Written by Halima Khan · South Asia

The term ‘child abuse’ covers a wide array of very diverse kinds of crimes subjected towards the minors. Bloggers discuss the disturbing rise in child abuse cases in Pakistan.

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USA: In Census, Only Some Races Count

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa, Latin America

Census forms are being delivered to all U.S. households this month, but some citizens complain that the question on race does not offer enough answers to give an accurate picture of their ethnicity.

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China: Google.cn migrated to Hong Kong

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia, North America

Finally Google has decided to leave China. Soon after the announcement, Google stopped censoring the search result of google.cn by redirecting the site to google.com.hk. In Google's official blog, David...

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China: Singing farewell to Google

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia, North America

Google has formally closed its mainland Chinese search engine and rival Baidu will not need long to pick up the slack; nonetheless, former users of Google.cn search braved the cold air to show their support outside the company's Beijing headquarters, singing an anti-Internet censorship protest song while they were at it.

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Ghana: Accra Twestival 2010: Social Media Activity With Substance?

Written by Linda Annan · Sub-Saharan Africa

If social media is changing communication patterns in the West, it sure has not fallen short of touching interesting places on the African continent. So it is no surprise that MacJordan, one of Global Voices’ own, is collaborating with Rodney Quarcoo to bring Accra Twestival in Ghana.

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Updates from March, 2010

29 March 2010

Uzbekistan

Joshua Foust reports that two hospitals in Namangan have been identified in a newly released documentary as infecting at least 140 children with HIV, resulting in the deaths of at least 14.

• Adil Nurmakov

Afghanistan

Christian Bleuer reflects on a video report about Afghan refugees in Tajikistan, saying that this is just one of many issues in the country that it is ill-equipped to handle.

• Adil Nurmakov

China

Toadi from interlocals.net has translated a Beijing News' interview with Hu Yong on the potential of micro-bogging in China.

• Oiwan Lam

Russia

Maxim Zuev (aka LJ user kenig), a blogger from Kaliningrad, was killed on March 18, rian.ru reported. Zuev's occupation was business although Kaliningrad bloggers remember him as a moderator of the kenigsberg LJ community. The motives of the murder are still unknown.

• Alexey Sidorenko

Russia

Theatre director Pavel Rudnev proposed to stage a play based on the questions of bloggers to the Russian State Duma's Speaker Boris Gryzlov during an online-press conference. Rudnev admits not only high number but also inexhaustible wit of venomous questions asked by Russian netizens.

• Alexey Sidorenko