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20 December 2005

Stories from 20 December 2005

Bolivia: More on MAS

Jefferson Morley has a good sampling of what Latin America's online media has to say about Evo Morales’ presidential victory while Eduardo Avila calls the decisive victory “a positive step...

Written by David Sasaki
21 December 2005

Report from the WTO Demonstrations in Hong Kong

The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005. Thousands of anti-globalization campaigners, especially South Korean farmers who has been opposing the opening of their rice...

Written by Charles Feng
20 December 2005

A Quick Trip into Chile

A good way make a virtual Chilean trip, is by getting to know Chileans blogs about, food, customs, and culture. In La Buena Vida (ES) ( “The good life”) Alvaro...

Written by Rosario Lizana
20 December 2005

China: Ransom Emails

EastSouthWestNorth describes the investigation of two extortion notes emailed to leaders in the Ningbo City government. Curious about how Internet crime is handled in China? Click here.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
20 December 2005

Japan: Odd Survey

What Japan Thinks is a blog that translates quite interesting Japanese public opinion polls to English, such as on the popularity of mobile phones as gaming platforms or the market...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
20 December 2005

Kenya: Coming home

Afromusings muses on her return home to Kenya and is impressed by the changes to the airport and other things………………” On our drive out of the airport, i saw the...

Written by Sokari Ekine
20 December 2005

Uganda: Sweden withholds aid

Uganda-CAN reports that Sweden is withholding $5million in Aid from Uganda because of concerns over the transistion to multi-party democracy. It will instead give $3million in humanitarian aid to agencies...

Written by Sokari Ekine
20 December 2005

Ethiopia and Western Interests

Ethiopundit accuses the West of wanting to forget about the “fake” Ethiopian elections and return to “business as usual”……..”Ethiopia desperately wants the subject changed from its naked despotism to the...

Written by Sokari Ekine
20 December 2005

Kebena Sefere: Meles

Kebena Sefere wonders why Western leaders believed Meles would be any different from his predecessors and saw him as an “aspiring leader of a new generation of African Renaissance leaders”……..

Written by Sokari Ekine
20 December 2005

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