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15 December 2005

Stories from 15 December 2005

Philippines: Done with the Bishops

Edwin Lacierda of San Juan Gossip Mills Outlet discusses his disgust with the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, which had in the past distinguished itself by criticizing the state...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
15 December 2005

South Korea: U.S. Envoy Snubbed?

Flying Yangban gives us a blow-by-blow roundup of blog posts discussing the South Korean unification minister's supposed snubbing of the U.S. special envoy for North Korea human rights.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
15 December 2005

Mexico: Videoblog Contest

Eduardo Arcos writes that yesterday morning there was a press conference (ES) held by Intel and RocketBoom to announce a competition for best Spanish-language video blog related in some way...

Written by David Sasaki
15 December 2005

Venezuela: Discount Food Stores

Oil Wars has more excellent photojournalistic coverage or Caracas, this time focusing on a government social program which creates discount stores in the area known as El Valle. Commenters note...

Written by David Sasaki
15 December 2005

Morocco: Blasphemous Cartoon

Foulla says that Al-Azhar, the highest seat of religious learning in the Sunni world, vowed to raise the issue of the provocative caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) published by the...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
15 December 2005

Morocco: Open Skies

Zany says that the “open skies” deal, which ends restrictions and limits on flights and national airlines operating between the EU and Morocco, will help Rabat bring the additional travelers...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
15 December 2005

Algeria: President Health

According to Hale and quoting IslamOnLine (12/13), Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's condition is ‘critical’, and that was supposedly confirmed by his brother Mostafa, a physician who accompanied him to Paris....

Written by Haitham Sabbah
15 December 2005

Bahrain: Fanatic Muttawa

Mahmood is very upset after the Bahrain Ministry of Information, encouraged by the parliament, decided to ban any live musical shows at the only good, family oriented, non-alcoholic, non-shisha-smoking entertainment...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
15 December 2005

Bahrain: HRW Appeal to UN

Zainab Alkhawaja reports that a group of Human Rights activists went to The United Nations building in Bahrain to protect themselves from what they claim as continuous harassments of the...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
15 December 2005

Peruvian Blogs Recently

La versión original de este artículo está disponible en español. These days have been active, politically speaking, as various bloggers have posted frequently about recent happenings and among them all,...

Written by Juan Arellano
15 December 2005

AFrican culture and development

African Unchained agrees that “African culture should be factored in the continent's development process in order to make the continent's development holistic and closer to Africans because of the long-running...

Written by Sokari Ekine
15 December 2005

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