Spreading the blog gospel (blogspel?): 
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Hossein Derakhshan (aka Hoder) posts his recent presentation on How Weblogs are affecting Iran [2]. He also outlines his upcoming talk on how to make a blogosphere [3].
Mideast:
The Lebanese Blogger Forum points out [4]that Lebanese expatriates outnumber Lebanese in Lebanon, and is supporting a campaign to enable Lebanese expats to come home to vote in elections next month.
Iraq the Model is angry [5]with those who call the resistance “patriotic.”
Southeast Asia:
Cranial Cavity smells [6] a “very big sea-going rat” in the Malaysian government's approach to shipping security in the Malacca Straits.
Reporters Without Borders reports [7] that Singaporean student Jiahao Chen (now studying in the U.S.) was forced to take down his blog [8], AcidFlask, after he criticized government policies and a research scholarship program.
Our Man in Hanoi reflects [9] on the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Noodlepie says [10] Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) is awash with foreign journalists and has started a Flickr photo pool [11]. Great idea.
Africa:
Sokwanele laments: [12] “We have been reduced from a major sugar exporting country to a country to one that can't even guarantee supplies for its own domestic market!”
Music & culture: Kenyan Pundit is excited [13] about the Sweet Mother Tour [14].
[15]South Asia: Radio Free Nepal complains [16]of “state vandalism.”
United We Blog describes how schoolchildren got cold and rainsoaked [17] when required to line up on the roadside to greet King Gyanendra when he returned from overseas. UWB also announces [18] a freedom rally in Washington D.C. on May 15th.
Indian blogger AnarCapLib asks: should India invade Nepal [19]?
Central Asia:
Armenian blogger Blogrel has no love lost [20] for the Armenian police [21].
Next door in Azerbaijan, Registan.net points us to a jazz festival [22].
East Asia:
Isaac Mao reports [23] that Skype.com seems to be blocked in China.
[24]Food: Joi Ito has a mouthwatering account [25] of a visit to a Japanese-French fusion restaurant near Technorati's Tokyo office.
Sports: Japundit has a long post [26] on sumo and championship wrestling.