Stories from 4 July 2007
Bolivia: Political Blog Aggregator
Sebastian Molina of Plan B [ES] helped launch a new blog aggregator called Piensa Bolivia [ES] “Think Bolivia,” which focuses on entries about the political situation in the country.
Russia: “See You In Sochi”
Inside Krasnodar announces in the middle of the Russian night: “SOCHI WINS! Sochi has just been awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics!! Molodetz Sochi.”
Honduras: The Intricacies of Using Cell Phones
La Gringa writes about how, when, and where cell phones are used in Honduras.
Colombia: Blog Competition
Medallo Bloguero [ES] writes about the national blog competition sponsored by the magazine Semana, in which the top three winners will form part of the magazine's bloggers.
Guatemala: June 30th, A Day to Remember
Every year on June 30, Guatemalans celebrate a festive day, when the Guatemalan Army goes on a parade in the city's center. This year was exceptional because bloggers were the real reporters of the event, and experienced something unusual that happened.
Iran:Remember Jailed Students
Khorshidkhanoum has published the photos of eight jailed student activists from Amir Kabir University.
Congratulations, Rising Voices Grantees
We are thrilled to announce the first five citizen media outreach projects to receive Rising Voices microgrants. In total we received 142 project proposals from over 40 different countries. What all of the project proposals have in common is a desire to enable their communities to tell their own stories, to write their own first draft of history, to document their traditions and culture before they are washed away by the tides of globalization.
Iran:Selling gasoline in black market
Pa Brehneh Bar Khat says[Fa] that in Bandar Abbas,a port city on the southern coast of Iran,you can hardly find a taxi.The blogger adds after,last week,government rationed gasoline,taximen started to sell their own gasoline in black market instead of consuming it.
Albania: Real Estate
Our Man in Tirana reports on investing in Albanian property.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Genocide Conference
Srebrenica Genocide Blog reports that the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) will hold its 7th meeting in Sarajevo on July 9-13, 2007: “Our conference theme, Responding to Genocide Before It's Too Late: Genocide Studies and Prevention, is always appropriate, of course, but also has an immediate resonance as we...
Latvia: Remembering Holocaust Victims on July 4
Marginalia reports that in Latvia, July 4 is “set aside for remembrance of the genocide against the Jews — ca. 70 000 Latvian Jews and 20 000 foreign Jews were murdered here during the Nazi phase of the occupation.”
Poland: News Roundup
The beatroot returns with a news roundup: “The EU deal that wasn't; striking doctors and nurses; and the Father Henryk Jankowski – Mel Gibson connection: the usual weird and wonderful stories out of Poland didn’t stop just because I went on holiday.”
Russia: Jokes
Darkness at Noon links to a collection of Soviet jokes translated into English.
Russia: Allofmp3.com Shut Down
Siberian Light writes: “The Russian government has finally bitten the bullet, decided it wants to be in the World Trade Organisation more than it wants to be seen as a haven of music piracy, and closed Allofmp3.com.” Robert Amsterdam has more.
Russia: Sochi-2014? We'll Know Today.
The Accidental Russophile and Sochi Travel Info await the announcement of the winner of the 2014 Winter Olympics bid in Guatemala today: one of the candidate cities is Sochi.
Ukraine: Yanukovych's Crimea House
Ukrainiana reposts pictures of Victor Yanukovych's Crimea residence and writes: “As “people all over Ukraine struggle to make both ends meet” — the truth championed in a recent Party of Regions ad — some people obviously defy the order of the day. Their luxury lifestyles know no end.”
India: Trees and Courts
Metroblogging Chennai on the courts coming to the rescue of trees that were to be cut down by the Chennai Corporation.
Pakistan: Lal Masjid and Opinions
Metroblogging Islamabad attempts to collate opinions on the Lal Masjid shootout.
India: The Taj Mahal
With the race on for the world's new seven wonders, Twilight Fairy has a lovely photo post on the Taj Mahal.
China: Beijing tap water drinkable?
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a local report about drinkable Beijing tap water. However he also pointed out: the fact that the city's tap water is drinkable doesn't mean it's drinkable from the city's taps.
Hong Kong: I.T. Sector on the March
Videos and photos of the Information Technology sector on the July 1st demonstration in support of 2012 universal suffrage in Hong Kong.
