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Global Voice Online

Bahamas: Staying Power? - 03/10/2010 09:26 PM

Bahamian Nicolette Bethel questions the staying power of a Ministry of Tourism marketing campaign which commissioned 14 films from British filmmakers. Here's what peeves her: “It’s the idea that lies at the heart of the way in which the Bahamian government spends its money: ‘their output is likely to be perceived as more credible [...]

Trinidad & Tobago: Inertia - 03/10/2010 09:19 PM

KnowTnT.com feels “compelled to write about the elephant - or in T&T, the Manicou - in the middle of the room. Inertia.”

Trinidad & Tobago: Thought Bubbles from London - 03/10/2010 09:13 PM

Trinidad and Tobago's fake Prime Minister blogs from the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, here and here.

Bulgaria: CME Buys Bulgaria's Most Watched TV Channel - 03/10/2010 09:10 PM

Ruslan Trad reports on the recent sale of bTV, one of the most popular TV channels in Bulgaria, to Central European Media Enterprises.

Jamaica: Remembering Watson - 03/10/2010 09:07 PM

The blog of the National Gallery of Jamaica pays tribute to the late painter and sculptor Osmond Watson.

Barbados: Murder Charge - 03/10/2010 09:03 PM

Barbadian bloggers report that three men have been charged with the recent murder of a retired senior police officer.

Midde East: Mourning the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque - 03/10/2010 06:05 PM

Mohamed Sayed Tantawi, the Grand Sheikh of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt, has died at age 81. Reactions to his death have varied from mourning to critical recollections of his many controversial fatwas.

Macedonia: Most Popular Pop Songs on YouTube - 03/10/2010 05:29 PM

Igor Mihajlovski published [MKD] an interesting analysis of number of views of Macedonian pop songs on YouTube, sorting them by time periods (1945-1979, 1980-1999, 2000-2010). He included videos of the late international star Toshe Proeski, whose interpretation of folk song “Zajdi zajdi” is the ‘winner' with almost 4 million views. The results also show that [...]

Chile: Earthquake Reveals Social Inequalities - 03/10/2010 04:43 PM

The quick burst of lawlessness that ensued after the February 27 earthquake in Chile sparked a national debate about the existing social and economic inequalities in the country.

Azerbaijan: Appeal court upholds ruling against video blogging youth activists - 03/10/2010 04:25 PM

Rufatagayev tweets that an appeal court in Baku, Azerbaijan, today upheld a previous court ruling sentencing two video blogging youth activists to 2 and 2.5 years in prison. Most observers consider the case again Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli to be politically motivated and Amnesty International have since declared the two men to be prisoners [...]

Nigeria: Images of children killed in Jos - 03/10/2010 03:46 PM

Images of children killed after violence erupted in Jos, Nigeria.

China: Zola's English blog - 03/10/2010 02:04 PM

Well known citizen reporter Zhou Shuguang starts to blog in English as he wants to be more international. Here is his first post.

India: Sugarcane Price Stirs Worry - 03/10/2010 12:14 PM

Ram Bansal at India in Peril discusses about the rising price of sugarcane in India and the impending crisis in the sugar market because of it.

Ecuador: Guayaquil Demands Greater Budget Allocation - 03/10/2010 12:07 PM

The municipal government of Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently held a "March for Dignity" demanding greater budget allocation from the central government. However, it was also an opportunity for its Mayor, Jaime Nebot, to take on a more visible political opposition to the President.

Azerbaijan: Confusion over Internet problems with Azadliq site - 03/10/2010 12:06 PM

In the past few days in Azerbaijan, some users have complained that many sites, including Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Facebook, were inaccessible. When one news site was affected, however, some Internet users feared the worst.