The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest took place this week in San Jose, California, awarding Garrison Spik as its worst opening sentence writer to a non-existent novel. The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest is aptly named after Victorian novelist, Edwards George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, who famously began his novel with the words, "It was a dark and stormy […]
Russian Blogger’s Guilty Verdict Raises Free Speech issues
Posted by Veronica Khokhlova to Global Voices Online On July 7, Savva Terentyev, 22, a Russian blogger and musician from Syktyvkar, received a one-year suspended jail sentence for a comment (RUS) he posted on Feb. 15, 2007, on the blog of a local journalist Boris Suranov. Here is a rough translation of the comment: I […]
Chinese City Implements ‘No Car Day’
Posted by Kelly Proctor to Global Voices Online Last year, Kunming, China took part in “No Car Day” (æ— è½¦æ—¥). Now, the southwestern Chinese city has gone above and beyond by instituting a “No Car Day” every month. Kunming, home to many environmental NGOs, has Car Free Days on the last Saturday of every month. China’s […]
Nicaraguan Protesters Pay Visit to Former President
Posted by Rodrigo Peñalba to Global Voices Online The hunger strike by Dora Maria Tellez to stop the Supreme Electoral Court from banning the Sandinista Renovation Party for this year’s municipal elections lasted 13 days. However, it did not stop the banning of the political party. Since then, there have been new protests and meetings […]
More teenagers addicted to tobacco
About 40 million of the country’s 130 million children between 13 and 18 have tried smoking, and 15 million of them have become addicted. Nearly 68 percent of them have had their first whole cigarette before they had reached 13, with those in big cities doing so at an even tenderer age, said the report, […]
Nepal puts ban on grain exports
NEPAL – The Nepalese government have followed many other governments around the world in putting a ban on the export of grains from the country, a government official said Thursday. Rice prices have risen 35% in recent weeks. A 30 kilo bag of rice now costs NRs 1,500, up from NRs 1,100 some weeks […]
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