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4 July 2005

Stories from 4 July 2005

Monday South Asia Blog Roundup

Now that KO’s internet access has finally been restored, he lets his opinion of PCTL, Pakistan’s national telephone company, be known. Hint: it’s not exactly positive. United We Blog takes...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
4 July 2005

Monday Pacific Rim/East Asia Blog Roundup

Mr.Brown reports that Singapore’s most popular Chinese-language broadsheet ran a feature article about Singaporean bloggers and their upcoming conference. Malaysian blogger Kenny Sia has his own particular take on the...

Written by Paul Frankenstein
4 July 2005

Middle East & North Africa Roundup

The prolific Bahraini blogger Mahmood of Mahmood's Den has done an Arabic translation of Reporters Without Borders’ 6 Recommendations for freedom of expression on the Internet. (PDF version is here.)...

Written by Rebecca MacKinnon
4 July 2005

Americas Roundup

Tomas Sancio of Venezuelan Politics explains why Venezuelans trade Bolívares for US dollars in the black market. Jorge Arena of Arena Space writes on The Devil's Excrement about the recent...

Written by David Sasaki
4 July 2005

African Blog Roundup

Debates over the relevance of Live 8 have kept the African blogosphere jumping this weekend. Andrew Heavens of Meskel Square is amazed that “you can't open a British newspaper (or...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
4 July 2005

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