Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 July 24

24 July 2010

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Stories from 24 July 2010

France: Rioting in the Itinerant Community after Shooting Sparks Row

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Western Europe

On July 18th, after 22 year old Luigi Duquenet was shot and killed, riots shook the quiet town of Saint Aignan in the Loire valley and immediately revived law-and -order reactions while also highlighting the discriminatory practices towards Roma people.

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Angola: Coins Gleaming Again

Written by Clara Onofre · Translated by Kitty Garden · Sub-Saharan Africa

Last May the National Bank of Angola brought into circulation kwanza coins again. In a country where the population uses US Dollars along with Kwanza in the daily life, people are getting used to a new practice and discussing its purpose.

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India: The Korean Cultural Wave In Nagaland

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · South Asia

Many people in Nagaland, a tribal state in Northeast India, feel disconnected - "racially, historically, culturally, politically" - from India, and have been fighting to protect their "unique identity" from mainstream Indian influence. Nevertheless, a different culture has been making an impact in Nagaland in recent years - that of Korea.

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Colombia: Twitter Reactions After Special Session Between Venezuela and Colombia at OAS

Written by Cati Restrepo · Translated by Catalina Restrepo · Latin America

The recent tension between Colombia and Venezuela was eventually taken to a Special Session in the Organization of American States (OAS) where both ambassadors presented their points of view. During and after the assembly, Colombian twitter users reacted to the events. Here is a summary of those reactions.

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Japan: Mob collusion soils the sumo ring

Written by Scilla Alecci · East Asia

After the National Police decided to crack down on the connections between crime syndicates and sumo wrestlers, sumo fans question the image of sumo as a sacred sport.

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Updates from 24 July 2010

Russia

“When the heat will pass away?” is this week's most popular search enquiry in the Russian Google. Another most popular search requests include: “How to survive heat wave?”, “How to cool down the room without an air conditioner?” and “Where people swim in the Moscow region?”, RIA Novosti reports [RUS].

• Gregory Asmolov

Russia

Russian heatwave makes history not only in the streets of Moscow but also in the virtual space. The Russian word “дождь” (rain) turned to be the first Cyrillic word in Twitter's worldwide trending topics, RIA Novosti [RUS] reports. It happened after Moscow bloggers witnessed a minor rain, that followed several weeks of unusually hot temperature.

• Gregory Asmolov

Pakistan

Tazeen at A Reluctant Mind talks about the perils of a single Pakistani woman traveling alone.

• Rezwan

Iran

Several bloggers wrote about Ahmad Shamlou's 10th anniversary. Shamlou was probabaly the most influential poet in modern Iran. VatanParast, Iranian blogger, quotes [fa] Shamlou: “underdeveloped countries are like people who are sleeping.”

• Fred Petrossian

Iran

Kandovan is a 'strange' Iranian village in Eastern Azarbaijan province where houses are in the middle of rocks. Watch the photos.

• Fred Petrossian

Armenia

Le Retour (in 3 Parts), a blog by a Canadian-Armenian resident in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, comments on the three recent guest entries posted on The Caucasian Knot, the blog of Global Voices' Caucasus regional editor, and summarized here. The blog looks forward to more conversations between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

• Onnik Krikorian

Brazil

A new citizen journalism project is underway in the poor, marginalized suburbs of São Paulo. Journalist Bruno Garcez launched blog Mural [pt] where he posts citizen media tips and interacts with his students. The new citizen reporters are also invited to publish their reporting and explain the process they have followed.

• Sara Moreira