13 December 2012

Stories from 13 December 2012

Presenting the Balkan Minorities

  13 December 2012

Fifteen young journalists from six different countries have produced a series of personal stories about representatives of the minorities (in a broad sense) from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia. The stories are available in English, German, and French on the Face the Balkans website.

Egypt: Graffiti Over Presidential Palace Walls

  13 December 2012

It seems like the revolutionary spirit is galvanized in Egypt, thanks to President Mohammed Morsy's power grab. Photographer Jonathan Rashad, who has been actively using his camera to document major events since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, shares photographs of graffiti which tell the story

Global Voices and the Power of We

  13 December 2012

To kick off this year's fundraising campaign, a behind-the-scenes look at how the 700-plus members of our diverse, global and entirely virtual community pull together stories. This holiday season, please consider a gift to Global Voices.

Latin America: Top 5 News Stories from 2012

  13 December 2012

In World Policy Blog, Global Voices contributor Robert Valencia highlights five “top stories from 2012 that will have an impact in 2013 and beyond”: the war on drugs, Hugo Chávez's re-election, the Colombia-Nicaragua dispute over the San Andrés Archipelago, the Colombian peace process, and Brazil's booming economy.

China's ‘Luxury Disease’ Extends to Lavish Government Buildings

  13 December 2012

Lavish government buildings is nothing new in China, however, nothing can be compared to the new government building in Jinan, capital of East China's Shandong Province. According to media reports , the "Long Ao building", cost 4 billion RMB (US$640 million), and is the second largest individual structure in the world, second only to the Pentagon in size.