International relations are rarely good for a laugh, but one Israeli blogger is having some fun.
Pinchas Orbach of Kumah reports:
“So… Fateh, of Yasser Arafat fame, set up a website called Fateh.net and they opened it up to anybody that wants to post a blog. Hmm… well someone posted this blog there called “Am Yisrael Chai” (The Nation of Israel Lives!)”
(Screenshot sourced from Kumah.org, with thanks)
For more than a week now, French Guiana has been in turmoil. The population is protesting against the skyrocketing price of gas by blocking roads, closing schools, and businesses. The cost of gas is currently €1,77 per liter (US$ 2,25), in contrast to the price of oil, which has been going as low as US$ 50,00 per barrel in the past weeks. The French Guianese blogosphere echoes this massive mobilization.
Egyptian blogger Asmaa Yasser - Dawn - writes here about her experience at the Mubarak Public Library:
The short video essay below, “Iran: a Nation of Bloggers” was created by students at Vancouver Film School (VFS). Aaron Chiesa, Toru Kageyama, Hendy Sukarya, and Lisa Temes created this video as part of their work for the VFS Digital Design program.
In the Vancouver Film School blog one of the designers, Lisa Temes, describes the team’s process in approaching this piece:
It's been just one month since Congolese President Joseph Kabila named a new government in an effort to quell mounting criticism over his inability to quell rebel violence in the east, and many bloggers remain skeptical about the country's future.
“It all started with a list off 44 billionaires the US ambassador to Cameroon gave the President…”
Le blog du Prési… [Fr] lists Cameroon's wealthiest and most powerful men. The average profile: an octogenarian currently or formerly in government, who is likely to have seen the inside of a prison cell.
Anti-government protesters are still occupying Bangkok’s two major airports. Thailand’s tourism officials have estimated that 240,000 passengers are still stranded in the country.
Initial flight schedules have been released for stranded passengers. Tourists who want to leave Thailand are embarking on a bus trip towards Malaysia even if they will have to pass Thailand’s southern provinces, where an insurgency exists.
While fighting continues in the North Kivu province of the DR Congo in spite of a well-publicised ceasefire, in the relatively peaceful neighboring province of South Kivu yet another journalist has been murdered. On the 21st of November Didace Namujimbo, who worked for the UN-backed Radio Okapi, was shot in the head when he was returning to his home in the evening.
Some bit of not so bad news: Thailand’s tourism authorities have issued a list of hotels offering accommodation for stranded passengers. A special flight was arranged for Thai Muslim pilgrims to their annual Haj pilgrimage to Mecca. Foreign governments are making extra efforts to help their citizens.
As of this writing, the airport crisis is still not over. Dozens of empty planes were allowed to leave Bangkok, but protesters still control the two major airports in Thailand.
Li-xiang is a patient, but also more than a patient. He filmed in 2004 a documentary called “our life” about how AIDS patients live, and founded an AID-care NGO named Red-wood, which reaches out to comfort AIDS patients and train health-care volunteers. Outside his sickroom, he is more a social worker than a patient in need of care. As he said
对我来说，每天的工作就是做能够帮助艾滋病毒感染者的工作，以及减少大众对艾滋病的误解和歧视的工作，大部分时间都是在围着艾滋病打转转，像任何一个社会 工作者那样。
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A few Fiji bloggers have sharply criticized the country’s military government for allowing the armed forces to overspend its allocated funds in the past fiscal year by more than 50 percent.
Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in the violence that erupted in Jos, Plateau State, Central Nigeria on Friday November 28th over a disputed local election.
(Photo by citizen journalism portal Sahara Reporters)
Saralynn, a missionary based in Jos, described the situation on Saturday:
I fled my house today.
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Taxi drivers from around the country have been in strike for a month. The first protest appeared in Chongqin in November 3, then it spread to Hainan, Gansu, Yunnan, Shandong, Qingdao, Jinan, Fujian, Shantou, Wubei, Shaanxi and etc.
Tomorrow (1 of December), it is likely that Guangzhou will have another Taxi driver strike, and a campaign letter has been circulating around. Beifeng scanned the letter and put it up on his blog; chong posted a backup copy at inmediahk.net:
Letter calling for strike
倡議書
全廣州市出租車駕駛員朋友們：
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Sixteen new cities were reverted back into towns after the Philippine Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional the cityhood laws converting these municipalities into cities.
Women: Should they stay at home and raise kids or should they work and have a contribution? A controversial question that Fantasia's World tried to answer in her post: Are you making your country poorer?
Fantasia is dedicating her post to
all the bitter, ever-complaining, dissatisfied housewives.. who were once my school buddies, university comrades, and work colleagues, but have chosen to stay at home after marriage.
Fantasia describes the nature of her relationship with the above-mentioned friends saying:
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