Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2010 June 23

23 June 2010

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Stories from 23 June 2010

Now occupying only 1.8% of total GDP in Taiwan, no one can deny that local agriculture has lost its once highly-respected status and is almost dying under many political decisions...

Trinidad & Tobago: Au Revoir

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Jamaica: ‘Dudus’ In Custody

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

News broke late yesterday that Jamaica's most wanted man, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke - whose pending extradition to the United States threw the island nation into a state of emergency thanks...

Cape Verde / Equatorial Guinea: Journalists Kept Away from Official Visit

Written by Sara Moreira · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

Mexico: 300,000 Tons of Electronic Waste

Written by Silvia Viñas · Quick Reads · Latin America

Cuba: Ferrer Released

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Latin America

Colombia: Rethinking the War on Drugs

Written by Silvia Viñas · Quick Reads · Latin America

Iran: Derakhshan's trial started

Written by Fred Petrossian · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

Japan: A day at an elementary school

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · Quick Reads · East Asia

Brazil: “CALA BOCA TADEU SCHMIDT”, Phenomenon Continued

Written by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia · Latin America

After the huge success of "CALA BOCA GALVAO", a similar phenomenon arose in the Brazilian social media, this time involving Brazil's main television network, Rede Globo, one of its reporters,...