Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 April 08

8 April 2010

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Stories from 8 April 2010

Costa Rica: Appetite-Enticing Culinary Blogs

Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Latin America

Costa Rican bloggers, ranging from amateur chefs to people simply passionate about food, are exploring the world of cuisine by presenting international and local dishes, accompanied by recipes and photos that are enticing the appetite of their readers.

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South Africa: On the murder of the leader of Afrikaner Resistance Movement

Written by Muhammad Karim · Sub-Saharan Africa

On the night of the 3rd of April 2010, the leader of the Afrikaans Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), an Afrikaner resistance movement, Eugene Terre'Blanche, was murdered. What do South Africa's digital citizens have to say about his death and the future of race relations in South Africa?

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Women's Rights In Pakistan

Written by Ambreen Salman · South Asia

Pakistani women are subject to increasing abuse and rights and opportunities are disappearing from them gradually. The absence of protection of law and lack of implementation of existing laws are worsening their plights. Pakistani bloggers discuss the situation.

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Japan: Call us social beings now!

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

April 1st marks a new academic year for students and the first day of work for the young, new employees. To distinguish them from the students, who don’t pay taxes and have no civic responsibilities, those who work and contribute with their job to ‘society’ are referred to as ‘social people’ - shakaijin in Japanese.

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China: Most influential most-read blogger

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Being the world's most widely-read blogger seems to have made Han Han a candidate for the 2010 Time 100 list, though a certain amount of selection bias probably isn't hurting...

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Indonesia: Sumatra quake reporting with Twitter

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Aceh and South Sumatra in Indonesia early Wednesday morning. GV author Carolina Rumuat gathers disaster reports and twitter reactions from Indonesia.

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Fiji: New media oversight proposed

Written by Michael Hartsell · Oceania

Fiji's journalists have been working under tough conditions since the country's military government abrogated the constitution last year. Now, that government has released plans to oversee Fiji's media.

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Taiwan: Debate over kitten-slayer case

Written by Vergil Yeh · East Asia

A National Taiwan University graduate student, Lee Nien Lung, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the end of March 2010 under the charge of animal cruelty. The sentence...

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Updates from 8 April 2010

Ukraine

Steve Bandera of Kyiv Scoop addresses the Ukrainian president once again, writing about the Donetsk Administrative Court's decision that Stepan Bandera “cannot be a ‘Hero of Ukraine' because he was never its citizen”: “Following the logic of the Donetsk court ruling, you will have to ‘de-heroize' at least 15 Heroes who died before 1991, including poets Vasyl Stus and Volodymyr Ivasiuk. Then there are the brave men who died fighting the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 1986. And the Red Army heroes who liberated Auschwitz, accepted the capitulation of the Japanese and raised the Soviet flag atop the Reichstag in Berlin to mark the end of the Great Patriotic War. They, like Bandera, died before 1991.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

India

Bhatnaturally informs that Hindi general entertainment channels have seen a 10.5 per cent drop in the overall share during the Indian Premier Leage (IPL cricket tournament) period this year. The blogger asks: “is IPL competition to Hindi TV channels?”

• Rezwan

Nepal

“When people arise, all power will have to surrender!” Ujjwal Acharya at The Radiant Star remembers the mass peoples' movement in Nepal during April 2006, which ended monarchy and Maoists’ People’s War establishing a more reformed democracy in the country.

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Colombia

Gustavo Silva Cano provides his thoughts [es] about the death of 12-year-old Heriberto Grueso in El Charco (Nariño, southwestern Colombia), killed by a bomb he was carrying inside a package that an unknown person asked him to deliver apparently to the little town's police station.

• Julián Ortega Martínez

Bangladesh

An Ordinary Citizen points to the ever diminishing image of Bangladeshi politicians in the eyes of the people. “The common people are observing the developments, they could identify the deviations and one day they will discard them and stage a revolution,” comments the blogger.

• Rezwan