1 January 2007

Stories from 1 January 2007

Mexico: Legitimate Government of Mexico

Holding his tongue, León Felipe Sánchez shows a screenshot from the website “Legitimate Government of Mexico,” the so-called parallel government by runner-up candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

2 January 2007

Argentina: 30 Creative Commons-Licensed Albums

Creative Commons evangelist Ariel Vercelli reminds his readers that Fernando Casale has been collecting albums of Argentine musicians released under a Creative Commons license. Casale has already mentioned over 30...

2 January 2007

Costa Rica, Chile, Cuba: Castro and Pinochet

Both Randy Paul and Boz applaud Costa Rican President Oscar Arias’ commentary on the similarities between Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet. Meanwhile, Venezuelan blogger Afrael comments on the celebrity look-alikes...

2 January 2007

UN Sanctions Against Iran

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to impose sanctions against Iran over its failure to halt uranium enrichment. The Iranian government announced that it will continue its nuclear...

1 January 2007

Libya blogs: The Last Week of 2006

The main themes dominating the Libyan blogs during this last week were, New Year, Christmas and Eid greetings, whith Khadijateri posting about the Eid Al Adha celebration and using photos...

1 January 2007

China: years in Spoofs

Southern Metropolis Weekly devotes the final Life issue of 2006 to spoofing this year's major news stories – DANWEI has translated the table of content and collected relevant resources.

1 January 2007

Taiwan: DPP PK China Times

ESWN puts together reports concerning Yu Shyi-kun, the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, order that all DPP central members shall not answer questions from the newspaper China...

1 January 2007