by Juliana Rincón Parra With two very recent natural disasters in mind: the cyclone in Myanmar and theEarthquake in Sichuan, China, the topic of getting pure and drinkable water to needy populations has come back into the conversation. Following, several videos which propose different solutions to supply clean water or at least make it easier for people to […]
Cameron, Missouri Tumor Outbreak Likely Caused by Water Pollution
FOX News and KMBC are reporting today that a bizarre flurry of brain tumors in the tiny Missouri town of Cameron have officials looking for causes. The local pharmacist, Steve Erickson, said he realized something was wrong when over a dozen residents were diagnosed with brain tumors in the past seven months. Cameron, Missouri has […]
Zimbabwe: Using New Technologies to Fight for Democracy
– by Ndesanjo Macha In countries such as Zimbabwe where media freedom is extremely restricted, new technologies have become powerful tools for political campaigning, communication, advocacy and mobilisation. Since Robert Mugabe turned the country into a dictatorship, bloggers and civic organisations have resorted to using new tools and applications such as blogs, Flickr, Facebook, SMS, YouTube and mashups to […]
Internet Helps Catch Suspected Pedophile Wayne Nelson Corliss
The Associated Press is reporting that Wayne Nelson Corliss, has been apprehended on charges of sexually abusing three very young boys in Southeast Asia, Corliss was located after international police organization Interpol posted his photo on their website May 5, 2008. Three days, and some 250,000 website visits later, cops in Union City, NJ detained […]
Korea: Chinese Students Fear for Safety after Torch Relay Violence
by John Kennedy Last week someone left a comment on a GVO post, something to the effect of ‘the whole world hates the Chinese people now’ and for a lot of people in (and outside) China, it sure is looking difficult to evenbe Chinese these days. Following the violence in Seoul during the Olympic torch relay there last week, […]
Japan: Nagano Red for Olympic Torch Relay
by Chris Salzberg The Japanese leg of the Olympic torch relay came to an end on Saturday without serious incident, but many Japanese bloggers who attended the event were left with lasting — and often bitter — impressions. The story of a Tibetan exile living in Taiwan, who jumped at the runner and was taken […]
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