Stories from 15 October 2007
Japan: NOVA Union Action Day
Tomorrow (October 15), NOVA Union will organize an action day to give pressure to the President Nozomu Sahashi for filing to the court for bankruptcy protection, so that employees can...
Bangladesh: Dhaka Stock Exchange
Unheard Voices on the recent positive press the Dhaka Stock Exchange has been getting.
Japan: Blog Action Day
James from Japan Probe joined the Blog Action Day by posting on an environmental experiment on Beijing pollution problem.
Celebrating festivals, feasting and donating smiles
Last Saturday Muslims all over the world celebrated Eid ul-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan. Abul Kalam Azad a Chennai blogger shares his experiences. His children eagerly distributing festival...
Africa: Telecommunications harmonisation
Rebecca Wanjiku writes about the debate around harmonisation of the telecommunication sector within East Africa: “Harmonisation is crucial to this process. Harmonisation does not necessarily mean that arrangements in all...
Togo: Elections went well
Arjen Westra's observations about elections in Togo: “For now, everybody still seems to have some tension about the results that are expected later this week. Last night it was extremely...
Meet Maggid Mjengwa – Tanzania's Photoblogger
Today, we are introducing you to Maggid Mjengwa. Maggid is one of the leading photobloggers from Tanzania who has been trying to combine blogging, photography and political activism. Apart from being a very active blogger, Maggid is also a well-known columnist for a Swahili weekly in Tanzania, RAI. He shares his time with us to talk about his love for writing and how he got involved with electronic media.
Trinidad & Tobago: Shrill Thrills
“I worry about Patrick,” writes Jeremy Taylor, observing the over-zealous behaviour of Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister as election day draws closer.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Serving the People?
“Will politicians wise up and realise they are servants of the people?” wonders Abeni, as she recounts two incidents in which a public official abused his power.
Jamaica: Doris Lessing
Croaking Marley admits he was “way off” in not considering Doris Lessing as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Trinidad & Tobago: The Stigma of HIV-AIDS
Now is Wow meets with an HIV-positive woman in South Trinidad and comes away humbled by the experience.
Jamaica, Haiti: Danicat Reading
Jamaican Geoffrey Philp attends a reading of Edwidge Danticat's latest work, Brother, I'm Dying.
Egypt: Additive and Subtractive Thinking
Additive and subtractive thinking is the topic of today's translation from Arabic by Tarek Amr. Do we pick and choose the values we like from ideologies or do we simply 'subtract' them from our consciousness because there are aspects in them we don't agree with?
Trinidad & Tobago, Dominica: Blog Action Day
Haveworld and Living Dominica share their ideas for helping the environment in honour of Blog Action Day.
Iran:Emad Baghi,Human Rights activist arrested
According[Fa] to Schrr,Emad Baghi was arrested yesterday.He was charged with “acting against national security”.Baghi was a supporter of political prisoners.His wife says that she has no news about him.
Iran:Blog Action Day for Environment
Negarakha writes[Fa]that 500 Iranian bloggers support Blog Action Day for Environment on 15th of October.On Monday, October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue...
Special Coverage: Burmese protests 2007
Recent protests in Myanmar simply would not have been as big a story if there weren't brave people on the inside (and outside) willing to risk everything to spread news, photos and videos via the internet. Read all about it on Global Voices' Special Coverage page.
Iran: Students protest against Ahmadinejad at Tehran University
Hundreds of Iranian students protested President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presence at the University of Tehran on Monday, October 8. According to Al Jazeera, students chanted "Down with the dictator!" as he delivered a speech to mark the start of the academic year. Several bloggers published photos and comments.
El Salvador: Bloggers and Journalists
The intersection points of blogging and journalism are many and varied in El Salvador. Journalists are bloggers. Bloggers write about journalists and vice versa. Although El Salvador is a country where most people can't spend significant amounts of time online, the ever-growing number of bloggers in El Salvador is starting to influence public debate.
Argentina: Córdoba Blogs
Córdoba Weblogs [ES] is a project aimed at collecting different blogs from the Argentine city. In less than 48 hours, the site has listed 29 blogs.
Egypt: Efficiency
Efficiency is not just a scientific term used by Mechanical Engineers. The Egyptian blogger Ahmed Tharwat (Ya Marakby) decided to apply it on society as well as Tarek Amr shows us in this post he has translated from Arabic.
