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Featured stories about 2007-08

Morocco: The Upcoming Elections

Jillian York · 14:09, August 30th, 2007 · Middle East & North Africa

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With the Moroccan legislative elections looming on September 7, Moroccan bloggers share their concerns about the process and its progress. 6 comments · read »

Chinese cartoon cops patrolling websites

Sami Ben Gharbia · 21:57, August 29th, 2007 · East Asia

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From September, 1st, Beijing’s new virtual cops will be active on 13 of China’s portals, including China’s biggest blog-hosting services, Sohu.com and Sina.com. By the end of the year, the virtual police’s patrols are expected to cover all websites registered with Beijing servers. 9 comments · read »

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August 31st, 2007

Ukraine: Crimea

Veronica Khokhlova · 21:25 · Middle East & North Africa , Eastern & Central Europe

On the last day of summer, here's a translation of LJ user drugoi's photo report on his trip to Crimea, one of the favorite summer tourism destinations in the Soviet times, now facing fierce competition from resorts in Turkey and Egypt. 1 comment · read »

Brazil: Tired of Philips

Paula Góes · 20:47 · Americas

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There is a popular saying in Brazil that goes like this: “Say whatever you want to and you will hear what you don’t”. Paulo Zottolo, the Latin American President of the electronics giant Philips, has learned this the hard way. In a recent interview with Valor Econômico, a newspaper from ... 8 comments · read »

Sierra Leone: Blogging the Elections

Vickie Remoe-Doherty · 20:04 · Sub-Saharan Africa

Sierra Leone held its presidential and parliamentary elections on August 11, 2007. The exercise marked a peaceful transition to democracy after years of civil war. None of the presidential candidates won at least 55% to prevent a run-off, which is set for September 8th, 2007. Now on to the Sierra Leone Blogosphere to see what bloggers have had to say about the process... 4 comments · read »

Turkey is Typing….Wordpress Still Blocked

Deborah Ann Dilley · 16:57 · Middle East & North Africa

Last week Sami Ben Gharbia did an excellent posting about the blockage of the Wordpress blogging platform in Turkey, this week we will examine what Turkish bloggers have to say about it. There is anger, resentment, and sense of utter amazement at the absurdness of the situation. And yet, there is a powerful spirit of strength in combating this ban. 16 comments · read »

Egypt: Complaining for Change

D B Shobrawy · 16:30 · Middle East & North Africa

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Something I love about Egyptian blogs is our tendency to complain. Firstly because we're Egyptian and its our nature and secondly because we have so much to complain about. Among our complaints this week: international scandals, intellectual persecution, the Egyptian Legal system (or lack thereof), the question of beauty and as usual, religious persecution rounding out the group, writes D.B. Shobrawy. 0 comments · read »

All out war in southern Philippines

Mong Palatino · 15:32 · East Asia

War is raging in the island of Basilan, located in the southernmost part of the Philippines. An all-out war was recently declared by the government against the Abu Sayyaf bandit group accused of beheading 14 Marines last month. The military offensives have displaced thousands of families and imperiled the peace negotiations between the government and other Muslim rebel forces. 12 comments · read »

Links for 2007-08

Eastern & Central Europe

The Balkan Yankee writes on the ways in which the so-called “foreigner tax” is applied in Bulgaria.

Eastern & Central Europe

MoldovAnn bought her first car in Ukraine and has spent some time driving it in and around Kyiv, and now she's off for a week of traveling with a group of international volunteers as part of the UNV Volunteerism Promotion Campaign.

Eastern & Central Europe

Taras Kuzio compares Ukrainian politicians to their French counterparts: “Yulia could become Ukraine’s Thatcher or Sarkozy – Yushchenko will always be a Chirac. Maybe a woman can do what a man could never.”

Eastern & Central Europe

The election is a month away and Yulia Tymoshenko campaign rallies are reported to be drawing crowds of supporters. Alluding to president Yushchenko's 2004 poisoning, Foreign Notes writes that Tymoshenko “should watch what she eats from now on, and especially keep away from sushi…”

Eastern & Central Europe

Foreign Notes writes about Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man.

Americas

The weather pattern heading towards the Caribbean has been officially categorized as Tropical Depression #6 of the hurricane season, according to an updated post by Francomenz.

Americas

Nicholas Laughlin quotes BC Pires on the occasion of Trinidad and Tobago's 45th anniversary of Independence, while IZATRINI.com compares the country's first Independence Day celebration with how the holiday is celebrated today.

Americas

Francomenz follows the progress of a “disturbed” weather system heading towards Trinidad and Tobago.