Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2010

December, 2010

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Stories from December, 2010

1 December 2010

Hungary: Comments on Upcoming Changes in Pension Fund System

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

Marietta Le writes about opposition to the Hungarian government's plans to bring private pension funds under state control to reduce budget deficit.

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Latin America & Cablegate: Analysis, Reactions & Questions

Written by Silvia Viñas · North America, Latin America

Cables from United States embassies in several Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, including Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela and Honduras, have been released as part of WikiLeaks' "Cablegate". Bloggers in the region are analyzing the cables and what they mean to their individual countries and to Latin America as a whole.

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Updates from December, 2010

22 December 2010

China

A new website, China Blog Network, has just been launched today. It is a platform for blogs about China to connect to one another and for readers to discover new sources of China-related content.

• Oiwan Lam

Venezuela

On December 17, Caracas Gringo wrote that President Hugo Chavez “was granted special powers to rule by presidential decree until June 2012.” An Enabling Law that Venezuelan Analysis reports was passed “in order to bring rapid relief to 130,000 flood victims and to further engrain 21^st Century Socialism in the nation’s legal structure.” But according to Juan Cristobal in Caracas Chronicles, “Chávez had absolute power before, and he has absolute power now. There is little in these laws that changes that.”

• Silvia Viñas

21 December 2010

India

Anil Advani at Anil's Space On The Net shares some beautiful pictures from Delhi, captured on a winter morning.

• Aparna Ray

India

Aritra Ganguly at Just Like That - At Any Point of Time ponders about life at thirty and decides that he loves it anyway.

• Aparna Ray

Pakistan

Sana Saleem at Mystified Justice, furious at the insensitive media handling of a recent gang rape case (that led the victim to withdraw her case against the rapist), writes an open letter to Sharmila Farooqui - protesting the manner in which the Information Advisor handled the media briefing pertaining to the case.

• Aparna Ray

Kenya

The lack of African ICT research: “It’s no surprise that most of the ICT research comes from South Africa, followed by Nigeria and Botswana. But even if you added up all the research done in all of Africa, it is only 9% of the research done in Africa is done by African institutions.”

• Ndesanjo Macha