Topic: Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Mexico: Learning and yearning in Spanish and English
Lesley from The Mija Chronicles writes in English about her difficulty to learn Spanish in her first 10 months living in...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Arts &..., Language, Mexico

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Russia: Law Enforcement and Crime
Robert Amsterdam's reports on the pre-trial detention center death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky last month - here and here;...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Eastern & Central..., English, Governance, Human Rights

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Peru: Students Complain After Charge on Raffle Tickets
Engineering students from the Señor de Sipán University at Perú made a quick profit analysis of a raffle organized by the...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Education, Peru, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Ukraine: Charity
Stories of some Ukrainian street children who have received assistance at ChildRescue's rehabilitation center - at Scenes...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Children, Cyber-Acti..., Eastern & Central..., English

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Serbia: More on the Late Patriarch Pavle
More on the life of the late Serbian Patriarch Pavle: Again & Again; Anegdote; Belgraded - here and here.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Eastern & Central..., English, Governance, History

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Romania: Presidential Election, Round One
Posts on the first round of the presidential election in Romania last month: Csíkszereda Musings - here, here, and here; and...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Eastern & Central..., Elections, English, Politics

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Hungary: A News Roundup
Some of the posts that have appeared on Hungarian Spectrum in the past ten days: “corruption and the unfriendly attitude...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Business, Eastern & Central..., Economics, English

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Russia: Internet Providers Block Separatist Web site
Russian Internet providers blocked the Cavkaz-center [ENG], the Web site famous for its support of Caucasus separatists and...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Eastern & Central..., Freedom of..., Internet &..., Media

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bhutan: Grades vs Education
Tomlax says: “those people who score more in exams are not really more educated.” Read the post at Kuzu-Bhutan...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Bhutan, Education, English, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

India: Storey Telling Key To Marketing Success
Indian blogger Gaurav Mishra lists three reasons why storytelling is the key to social media marketing success.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Business, English, India, Internet &...

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Morocco: Jail for Chakib Khayari
Maghreb Blog reports that the sentence of Chakib Khayari, a human rights activist and whistleblower, has been upheld in a...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Freedom of..., Governance, Media

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Morocco: For Your Reading Pleasure
Moroccan resident Ibn Ibn Battuta shares a list of nonfiction and travel books that keep him busy on the road in Morocco.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Entertainment, Literature, Media

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bangladesh: Indigenous People
Photoblogger Monirul Alam comments on the indigenous people (adivasi) of Bangladesh: “Adivasis are among the poorest of...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Bangladesh, English, Ethnicity, Indigenous

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bangladesh: Overcrowded Marine Transports
Subhan Choudhury at “Why did Bangladesh cross the road?” describes the state of the overcrowded marine transport...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Bangladesh, Disaster, English, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bahamas: Sick & Tired
Sidney Sweeting at Weblog Bahamas says that Bahamians “are sick and tired - sick of the rampant crime and tired of the...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Bahamas, Cyber-Acti..., English

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Trinidad & Tobago: If Only…
In the third installment of her video series If I were Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Gab Hosein “takes on both...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Cyber-Acti..., English, Environment

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Trinidad & Tobago: Writing on the Wall
Trinidad's Pleasure blog links to a video of local graffiti artist, Manf.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Arts &..., English, Environment

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Russia: USSR-Nostalgie Internet-TV Portal Launched
Internet-TV channel CCCR-TV.ru with archival Soviet TV footage launched on November 27. The site contains videos from 1952 till...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Arts &..., Eastern & Central..., Media, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Ukraine: Road Safety
Foreign Notes writes about Ukraine's “awful” road safety statistics.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Disaster, Eastern & Central..., English, Governance

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Ukraine: “We Remember”
Ukrainiana, Kyiv Scoop, and LJ user igordaily (UKR) write and post photos and video from this year's commemoration of...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Diaspora, Eastern & Central..., English, Ethnicity

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Kosovo: Coal Imports
A Fistful of Euros writes about Kosovo's need to import coal from elsewhere, despite having “the world’s fifth...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Development, Eastern & Central..., Economics, English

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Maldives: On The Swiss Minaret Ban
Mohamed Aseel Hassan from Maldives comments on the Swiss minaret ban: “I am outraged that one of the most liberal...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Maldives, Religion, Roundups

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Maldives: On The Swiss Minaret Ban
Mohamed Aseel Hassan from Maldives comments on the Swiss minaret ban: “I am outraged that one of the most liberal...

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Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, Maldives, Religion, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Sri Lanka: Sloppy Service By The State Airlines
Dare to be different posts a letter from a disappointed customer of the Sri Lankan state airlines detailing the suffering due...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Protest, Roundups, South Asia

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Sri Lanka: Sloppy Service By The State Airlines
Dare to be different posts a letter from a disappointed customer of the Sri Lankan state airlines detailing the suffering due...

1 day ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, Protest, Roundups, South Asia

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bhutan: Another Ban
After the tobacco ban, Penstar informs about another prohibition in Bhutan; local authorities have banned alcohol during the...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Bhutan, English, Food, Governance

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Bhutan: Another Ban
After the tobacco ban, Penstar informs about another prohibition in Bhutan; local authorities have banned alcohol during the...

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Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: Bhutan, English, Food, Governance

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Pakistan: Lest We Forget
M.P. Bhandara at All Things Pakistan comments on the issue of the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh: “How cynical can we...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: English, International..., Pakistan, Refugees

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Pakistan: Lest We Forget
M.P. Bhandara at All Things Pakistan comments on the issue of the stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh: “How cynical can we...

1 day ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, International..., Pakistan, Refugees

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Ghana: 10 Ghanaian Christmas gifts
Wo Se Ekyir has a list of 10 Ghanaian Christmas gifts.

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Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: Arts &..., Business, English, Ghana

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Trinidad & Tobago: Gay Issues at CHOGM
gspottt says that “for the first time at a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting…in Trinidad & Tobago,...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Cyber-Acti..., Education, English

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Montserrat: Soufriere Activity
Repeating Islands has an update on the activity of Montserrat's Soufriere volcano.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, English, Environment, History

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Trinidad & Tobago: Blogging & Journalism?
KnowTnT.com explores the question of whether blogging is journalism.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, English, Ideas, Internet &...

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Caribbean: World AIDS Day
Regional bloggers discuss World AIDS Day.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Barbados, Cyber-Acti..., Education

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bermuda: PATI Opinions
Bermudian bloggers put in their two cents' worth on the proposed Public Access to Information Legislation.

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Bermuda, English, Governance

Paneh posted a blog entry

November 2009 Summary
At the end of each month, I'll post a summary of articles from that month. I'll highlight and categorize all...

2 days ago

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Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Pakistan: Reduce The Size Of The Cabinet
Pakistani blog My Distinguished Sense supports the recent proposal of reducing the bulky cabinet of Pakistan explaining the...

2 days ago

Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Governance, Pakistan, Roundups

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Sri Lanka: Future Of Freedom And Democracy
Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe at Groundviews discusses the fate of the internally detained persons and the future of freedom and...

2 days ago

Global Voices Online | Topics: English, Ethnicity, Governance, Human Rights

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

India: Corruption Is The Hindrance
“India needs to be made free of corruption before it can become developed. But the entire existing Indian governance...

2 days ago

Global Voices Online | Topics: Development, English, Governance, India

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Iran: Students surprised Ahmadinejad's advisor in Paris
Iranian students in Paris criticized Iranian government and its repression policy against Iranian students and opposition in a...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Cyber-Acti..., Human Rights, Iran, Middle East & North...

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Egypt: Spotlight on Zabbaleen
Regine, at we make money not art, introduces us to photographs by Bas Princen of Cairo's Mokattam Ridge or Garbage City...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Egypt, English, Labor, Middle East & North...

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Iran: A blogger released, another arrested
Iranian authorities released Mohammad Ali Abtahi,former vice president and blogger on a $700,000 bail one week ago after his...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Cyber-Acti..., Human Rights, Iran, Middle East & North...

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Russia: Thousands Protest Against Trading Center Construction
On November 29, thousands of people in Moscow went out on the streets to protest against the construction of a new trading...

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Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: Eastern & Central..., Ethnicity, Photos, Politics

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UAE: .il unblocked?
samuraisam, from the UAE Community Blog, asks: “Has anyone else found the Israeli TLD to be unblocked from the UAE? On my Etisalat connection it seems to be open.”

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UAE: .il unblocked?
samuraisam, from the UAE Community Blog, asks: “Has anyone else found the Israeli TLD to be unblocked from the UAE? On my...

3 days ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, Freedom of..., International..., Internet &...

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

UAE: Call for Action
UAE blogger An Emirati's Thoughts calls for action following the “recent slump in the confidence in Dubai's debt...

3 days ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: Business, English, Finance, Middle East & North...

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Yemen: An Architectural Gem
Yemeni Omar Barsawad shares with us information on the Yemeni capital San'aa. “Be it in Sana'a Old City or the...

3 days ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: Development, English, History, Middle East & North...

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Yemen: The Greatest Journey
Yemeni Omar Barsawad reflects on Hajj, the fifth pillar of Islam.

3 days ago

Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, Middle East & North..., Religion, Roundups

VHPEditor posted a blog entry

Jordan: Brass Award for The Black Iris
Naseem Tarawnah's The Black Iris won the Brass Crescent award in the Middle East category for the second year in a row.

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Human Rights Video - Global Voices and WITNESS | Topics: English, Internet &..., Jordan, Middle East & North...

Rebecca M posted a blog entry

Bolivia: Citizen Coverage of Upcoming Election
A group of Bolivian bloggers have put together a site called Elecciones 2.0 Bolivia [es] which will provide citizen coverage of...

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Global Voices Online | Topics: Americas, Bolivia, Elections, Roundups

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