Global Voices Online

“Almost everyday I open the newspaper…what I see? Reports about how many birds in which country sneeze, which ones had aches and pain and cough and fever and…,” writes Guyana-gyal in an unusual meditation on old-time remedies used to treat sick chickens and the person she wishes she could give a good dose of the stuff to.

Luke Distelhorst has additional photos and reporting on the protests in Mongolia demanding the president's resignation and more favorable terms for Mongolia in a contract with Canada's Ivanhoe Mines.

Nicolette Bethel traces the roots of some of the hatred she sees manifested in the behaviour of Bahamians to the island's history of slavery.

neweurasia covers important diplomatic visits between Turkmenistan and China and Kazakhstan and Russia.

Linda Thompkins reports on a recent meeting held to discuss the 2006 hurricane season and its implications for the Caribbean. The hurricane season begins officially on June 1.

Patrick writes in Spanish and English that videos about Guatemala are starting to appear on the Internet, including one about responsible tourism.

Commenting on the U.S. immigration debate, “Sangroncito” notes that Americans can easily take for granted that they are warmly received around Latin America without the costly and invasive process that visiting Latin Americans must endure.

The beating of a young allegedly gay man by fellow students at the Jamaica campus of the University of the West Indies prompts Francis Wade to contemplate issues of tolerance and crowd psychology.

Nurilya, a university student in Kyrgyzstan, writes about bride kidnapping and a friend of hers who was kidnapped.

Eon proposes a series of televised “reasonings” on the subject of the three pressing issues pinpointed by outgoing Jamaican Prime Minister P. J. Patterson as areas where the country's political leaders should attempt to achieve “bi-partisan consensus”.

“Tajik Boy” comments on US Ambassador to Tajikistan Richard Hoagland's remark that Tajikistan is a success story and says that he thinks the country has a bright future in store.

Onnik Krikorian says that neither Armenia nor Azerbaijan understand the compromises that must be made to reach peace over Karabakh.

Doug of All-Encompassingly points his readers to an article from the Argentine paper, La Nación about the recent virtual battle on Wikipedia to define President Néstor Kirchner. The Wikipedia page is currently locked.

Rob Mercatante comments on a recent report Amnesty International, which says that forced, violent evictions are on the rise in rural Guatemala.

The bilingual blog TlacuiloPilo argues that prostitution has existed in Mexico for centuries, concluding that it is “as Mexican as chile, frijoles, or mitotes.”

RegioBlogs points to a recent study by Yahoo! and OMD that lists Mexico as first place among 11 countries in the amount of free music downloads done by young people between 13 and 24-years-old.

Michael of The Glory of Carniola writes on the bad Slovenian-to-English translation and the mystery of one word's correct spelling: is it caffe, cafe, café or kafe?

Victor of Belgrade Blog has started a list of Frequently Answered Questions on how to get to and where to stay in Belgrade.

Giustino of Itching for Eestimaa writes about the controversy surrounding the 1994 Estonian ferry disaster and likens it to JFK assassination.

Pestiside.hu writes about strange ways punishing Budapest parking violators: “Not only are some alleged offenders long since parked six feet under, many of the surviving motorists are claiming they no longer owned their vehicles on the dates given. Others say they remember paying the fines but no longer have the receipts.

Timbo of The Hungary Years posts pictures of how Budapest is preparing for the flood. Pestiside.hu writes about disaster tourism and media attention: “The English-speaker of unidentified origin […] speculated that the Danube would have to rise another meter for the story to be big enough for the BBC.”

Dr. Emer, a practising physician, observes that in the Philippines, the high price of medicine can be fatal to your health. In Cambodia, “medical corruption punishes the poorest of the poor” by depriving them access to basic health care.

At Talkin' Tech, BernieJ has photos of unique eggs from China. They almost look like chicken eggs but they are a hundred per cent man-made.

Relative to the prohibition against using podcasts for political campaigns, Singapore Election Watch reproduces a statement from the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) Secretary-General that says this is not the first time that the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has arbitrarily thwarted its efforts– the PAP banned videos in 1996 when the SAP produced a video to present its platform.

Diacritic has added Daniel Hyun Lim in his list of artists to watch.

Children’s kitchen, cooking by children!, the 8th edition of Lasang Pinoy, a monthly project of Filipino food bloggers from all over the world, culminates with the round-up of participating blogs by Beijing-based Iska Montero. It is the first time that some of the participants posted videos in lieu of text entries in their blogs.

Indonesian tech blogs Daily babblings! and Enda Quicklinks have links to an article on online identity and anonymity, a blog on parenting and fashion and a blog where you can calculate how much you've spent on cigarettes from the day you started smoking.

The Sensintrovert has screenshots of media reports that say the Police Deputy Inspector-General surmises that the success in Malaysia of the TV series CSI might be making criminals smarter by teaching them how to remove traces of their crimes.

A couple kissing and hugging in a public park were arrested and charged with indecent behavior but The Saidicious Blog says although the Constitution does not explicitly allow public kissing and hugging, neither does it prohibit them.

Jabberwock finds out that watching Brokeback Mountain in a Delhi theatre is a less than pleasant experience.

Mash, a Bangladeshi blogger attempts to answer question put to Moderate Muslims.

London, Lanka and Drums on the difference in attitudes in Sri Lanka and the UK - “I think many of the major differences are caused by the relative labour costs. Even taking cost of living into account manual labour is far more expensive here in the UK than in Sri Lanka.”

Transcurrents.com on what appears to be further political intrigue in Sri Lanka - “The University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) has alleged that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization has faked the alleged abduction of seven Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) personnel at Welikande on the Batticaloa - Polonnaruwa border in two separate incidents on Jan 29th and 30th of this year.”

Propeller reflects on Youtube.com as a data warehouse - “If there were to be an video archive along the lines of archive.org, snapshots of life all across the world can be recorded in a giant knowledge database making it probably the first system in the world which has knowledge of life in visual form.”

The Chinese Law Prof links to the 2005 bibliography of German-, French- and English-language works on Chinese law compiled by Knut Pissler of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg.

“Is anything illegal in Japan?” asks one reader in response to MasaManiA's photo essay on the country's Shinto penis festival. [Contains nudity and explicit language]

Occidentalism's Matt blogs on the resumption of a teacher exchange program between Japan and South Korea suspended a year ago with the escalation of a territorial dispute between the two countries.

Would you go easy on a drug smuggler?

“For the number of people whose deaths they would most likely have contributed to by bringing that stuff in they got off damn light in my book,” writes the flagrant harbour blogger about three Australians convicted yesterday in Hong Kong for smuggling heroin.

The Angry Chinese Blogger takes an in-depth look at the possibility raised earlier this week of Chinese-made Lenovo computers being installed with eavesdropping technology and used to spy on Americans.

Are the lives of urban Chinese worth more than those of their rural counterparts? chinablawger tells us what the Chinese government's current stance is and how that might change.

BlogNews is a collective blog in Persian which covers news and blogs in different fields including technology, politics and media. It is a fascinating place to discover new blogs. The collaborators are from around the world and editor is Asdolah Alimohamadi, a Denmark based blogger.

UDPS Liege posts (FR) an invitation to UDPS /Wallonie's General Assembly which will take place April 9 in Liege, Belgium. UDPS is an opposition party in the DRC.

Ugandan blog Undo describes a journey by boat to Uganda's Kalangala district (a group of 84 Ssese Islands)

Sotho reports on a speech given by a Black woman on London's Underground….“Wake up, people! You must get involved otherwise the world is going to pot, starting with poor countries. We live in the same world, yet we don’t share it’s resources equally….”

Oro blogs on voice blogging…”You can now listen to all my blog posts — by simply clicking the link that says Listen to this podcast (computer-generated voice).”

AfroMusing points to a link ” “African deserts a potential clean energy goldmine?” which suggests using Africa's vast deserts such as the Kalahari and Sahara as huge sources of solar energy.

Passion of the Present reports on the 300 mile walk undertaken by Simon Deng to highlight the continued practice of slavery in Sudan and the genocide in Darfur.

Uganda-CAN points to a new report that estimates some 66,000 youths have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda.

Aid worker, Jared's Mozambique Adventure reports on his present project which is a micro finance scheme that will work on “pro-active” solutions for HIV/AIDS in Mozambique.

Keith of Under the Acacias reports on the arrival in Burkina Faso of bird flu and explains the impact on the local population for whom chicken is the cheapest source of meat protein. Other meats such as sheep and cattle are expensive so what will the people eat?

Afghan reality says according to a Unicef report, Afghanistan remains a country where 600 children under the age of five die every day, mostly from preventable causes.

Luke Distelhorst has a report on and photos from a small protest outside the Mongolian parliament building.

“Headache” is an Armenian in India blogging at Oneworld Multimedia. Meanwhile, Onnik Krikorian writes about the long history of ties between Indians and Armenians.

Kyrgyzstan Student Blog has a new post with four short essays on what the future holds, Kyrgyzstan's youth, keeping Bishkek clean, and crime problems.