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November, 2010

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Stories from November, 2010

2 November 2010

Southeast Asia: Interactive Sex Education Website

Established in July 2010 in Singapore, the website sexxie.tv is the world’s first and only sex education platform adopted by renowned doctors for interactive sex education. Unlike traditional sex education programs, sexxie.tv uses the online platform to reach its clients.

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1 November 2010

Bulgaria: Reactions to Dilma Rousseff's Victory in Brazil

Written by Ruslan Trad · Eastern & Central Europe, Latin America

Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff has been the subject of many conversations in Bulgaria, due to her Bulgarian roots. Ruslan Trad translates some of the online reactions.

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Macedonia: TEDxSkopje Attracts Attention Online

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe, North America

Participants who spoke after it, consider the first TEDx event in Macedonia a great success. The one-day conference organized independently under license from American nonprofit TED enabled widening the range of publicly discussed topics and inspiring at least one hundred participants to work on positive change.

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Haiti: Earthquake, Cholera; Tomas Too?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Tropical storm Tomas has now been upgraded to a category 2 hurricane as it heads towards Haiti. The hurricane still poses a peripheral threat to neighbouring islands like Jamaica, but Caribbean bloggers are hoping that Haiti will be spared any further devastation. The country is still grappling with the destruction from the January 12 earthquake as well as a recent cholera outbreak.

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Peru: National Team Wins World Surfing Games

Written by Gabriela García Calderón · Latin America

In October, surfers from Peru, Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Australia, Japan, France, Ecuador, Uruguay and South Africa traveled to Peru to participate in the Billaboing ISA World Surfing Games 2010. The Peruvian team won the world award in the teams competition.

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Mexico: Celebrating Day of the Dead

Written by Andrea Arzaba · Latin America

Day of the Dead is a special and mystical season that Mexicans celebrate every year. But what exactly happens on this date? Why is this holiday so important for Mexican families?

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Updates from November, 2010

20 November 2010

Guinea

Will Guineans have to live two more weeks under state of emergency?: “In a post earlier today, Guinea Oye! expressed concern about the Government’s decision to maintain a state of emergency until the Supreme Court issues election results.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Sudan

Laura Heaton blogs about refugees taking part in referendum registration in Southern Sudan: “For the first time in their lives, 22,000 refugees are about to vote, and these seven will take them through the process.
This week registration booths opened to start collecting the names of eligible voters for a historic referendum on independence for South Sudan scheduled for January 9.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Angola

Africa Is a Country posts a video of Angolan musician Yuri Da Cunha: “Yuri Da Cunha is a household name in Angola,and is on his way to becoming an international star. He has taken the older Angolan genre of semba music, and modernized its appeal to urban youth.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Nigeria

Nigerian blogger Aderinola comments on the suspension of Amos Adamu who was found guilty of trying to sell his vote for the world cup bid: “My concern here is the way Adamu’s image has been splashed on all the major newspapers around the world and how once again the rebranding of Nigeria has been rubbished. This is what you get when you cannot clean your house and going ahead to trying to clean the streets.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Kenya

Ethan visits and reviews the iHub in Nairobi, Kenya: “It’s an incubator, an invitation only space open every day to the 100 entrepreneurs who’ve applied for and won badges from the iHub team. For those who’ve won a green badge, there’s no charge to access the space, which is a pretty amazing asset, as it’s not just an extremely cool space – it’s got some of the fastest connectivity available in he city.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Mexico

Estenoyage meets African descendants in Mexico: “In one region of Mexico where I surf a lot, there's still a remaining community of African descendants. Usually they are called ‘Afro-Mexicanos' o ‘Afromestizos'.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Education

China Media Project translates an article by Yu Jianrong about educated youth in China, which can be divided into two groups. The first one are privileged by their access to wealth and power. The second, and much larger, group lack this privilege. It is the latter group which face a tough future, and the government must better understand their lives and aspirations.

• Andy Yee

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