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2 February 2007

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Stories from 2 February 2007

Thailand: Soccer Dispute

East Asia 2 February 2007

Metroblogging Bangkok describes the event that caused the latest sporting rift between Thailand and Singapore.

Requiem for a Blogger: Life and death issues from beyond the Portuguese keyboard

Latin America 2 February 2007

“Oxalis” by Poesie The year of 2007 started with the Lusosphere being surprised by the announcement of the death of a well known blogger. MEG [Maria Elisa Guimarães] became famous as the editor of SubRosa, one of the first-generation blogs in Brazil, and also because of her relentless promotion of...

Algeria: The Noble Black

Middle East & North Africa 2 February 2007

Algerian blogger Lameen Souag examines the definition of the word black in the Songhay language, which is spoken in and around Timbuktu and in the Sahara. “It would be interesting to examine the connotations of “black” in more languages,” he writes.

Egypt: Police Attempt to Rape Woman

Middle East & North Africa 2 February 2007

Arabist writer Issandr El Amrani links a story about the trial of two policemen charged with attempting to rape a woman.

Bahrain: Improve your Vocabulary

Middle East & North Africa 2 February 2007

Bahrain Rants encourages readers to spend their weekend slipping in new words into their conversations. This weekends gems are: Flummery, Maven and Vamoose.

Video from Benin: Fete des Peuples

Sub-Saharan Africa 2 February 2007

Benin Fete des peuples chap 10 LaFlammeTV posted this video on DailyMotion of this month's Fete des Peuples [Peoples’ Celebration], an event that took place in Cotonou, Benin adding: La Fête des Peuples est une grande manifestation culturelle qui puise sa vitalité à la source dans les variétés caractéristiques des...

El Salvador, Mexico: Hike in Corn Prices

Latin America 2 February 2007

Tim's El Salvador Blog takes a look at a variety of economic news stories focused on El Salvador including the rise in corn prices. That rise is also affecting Mexico, writes radio host Ana Maria Salazar: “The Governor of the Bank of Mexico, Guillermo Ortiz Martínez, said that an emergency...

Brazil: Insensitive Sao Paulo Major

Latin America 2 February 2007

Ricardo Carreón laments the recent comment by Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab which he says “poked fun” at a recent tunnel collapse which killed seven people.

Mexico: Prostitute Stick Ups

Latin America 2 February 2007

Mark in Mexico, who was hospitalized himself recently for “some type of infection”, tells readers of a recent report from El Universal in which Mexico City prostitutes drug and rob their clients.

Venezuela: Chavez Indefinitely or Path to Reform?

Latin America 2 February 2007

Miguel Octavio, who is now also publishing selected posts in Spanish, writes gloomily of the so-called “enabling law”: “Two days ago the Deputies of the National Assembly simply gave up their jobs and their own mandate in order to enable Hugo Chavez to rule by decree for an unheard of...

Trinidad & Tobago: Hang them? Then what?

Caribbean 2 February 2007

Jeremy Taylor gets to the bottom of the idea being voiced by many in Trinidad and Tobago that capital punishment is a solution to the country's ills — and explains why it's not.

Bermuda: Peeing in a bag?

Caribbean 2 February 2007

Christian S. Dunleavy traces the source of a Bermuda regiment official's puzzlement over the idea that new regiment recruits are required to “pee in a bag” to the blog of a regiment recruit.

A Day in Bahrain: Political Activists Arrested and Released

Middle East & North Africa 2 February 2007

Sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Bahrain sure feels it needs to stir up internal politics to keep up with the Joneses. The subtle infighting between its Sunni/Shia population just isn't exciting enough. The simmering mistrust must come to the surface for all to see. And the date for the...

Trinidad & Tobago: Calypso Fiesta memories

Caribbean 2 February 2007

Laura at the Caribbean Beat blog reminisces about Calypso Fiesta, the semi-final event of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival's calypso competition.

Dominican Republic: Free mixtape

Latin America 2 February 2007

Dominican hip hop blog rihiphop.com offers (ES) a free download of the complete mixtape “Pueto Pa Lo Mio”.

Caribbean: Caricom Blog

Economics & Business 2 February 2007

Though not officially affiliated with Caricom, the recently launched Caricom Blog aims to “provide information on the Caribbean Community and all related events, news, meetings and more”.

Czech Rebublic: Shawarma in Brno

Eastern & Central Europe 2 February 2007

NvB: Bored in Brno? discovers a cafe that serves Middle Eastern fast food in Brno.

Poland: More on Sex Scandal

Eastern & Central Europe 2 February 2007

Traveling Life writes of the sex scandal in Poland: “Four. That's how many women have now come forward accusing the leader of the neo-communist Self-Defense party, Andrzej Lepper, of pressuring them to have sex with him. […] how many women have to come forward before the Kaczynski twins and PiS,...

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