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28 Nov 08

www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia » Road safety (or the lack thereof) in Central Asia

  • Kazakhstan ranks 12th in the worldwide list of “most deaths in road accidents per 100,000 inhabitants”, Kyrgyzstan 15th
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www.neweurasia.net - Blogging Central Asia » Central Asia in numbers

  • Kazakhstan’s foreign debt burden (as % of exports of goods and services) is the 20th-highest, after Turkey, and above Brazil. In a list of countries’ foreign debt as a percentage of GDP, Kazakhstan is at number nine (106%). Kazakhstan’s debt service ratio - i.e. debt service as a percentage of the country’s exports - stands at 42%, second only to Brazil (45%).

Iranian blogger arrested 'as Israeli spy' | World news | guardian.co.uk

  • However, Israeli commentators noted that he had recently begun to express anti-Israeli views in his postings, defending Iran's right to possess defensive nuclear weapons and expressing a degree of admiration for Ahmadinejad's stance against the US.
  • Derakhshan was aware that his trips to Israel could jeopardise his return to Iran. "Iran doesn't recognise Israel, has no diplomatic relations with it … Too bad, but I don't care. Fortunately, I am a citizen of Canada and I have the right to visit any country I like," he wrote.

Who is Who: Sharism - Idea by Isaac Mao

  • Since then I am digging deeper in his idea and concept of sharism and the way he builds his work upon it.

China: Blogger Zhou Shuguang a.k.a. "Zola" barred from leaving country, "potential threat to state security" - Boing Boing

  • Rebecca McKinnon reports on 27 year-old blogger Zhou Shuguang, aka "Zola," whom the Chinese government have banned from leaving the country as a "potential threat to state security." Snip:

Global Neighbourhoods: China's Web 2.0 & Censorship

  • Kai-Fu Lee, co-president for Google Greater China told us there will be no GMail in the
    foreseeable future, because Google would be unable to protect user
    data from the government.
21 Nov 08

GigaNet - Global Internet Governance Academic Network

The Third GigaNet Annual Symposium final program and other 
information

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iusethis

iusethis lets you keep track of the osx apps you use, and locate and download top freeware and shareware applications for OS X

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16 Nov 08

Campaign to defeat Internet Censorship in Australia

The Government is persisting with its plans to introduce compulsory internet censorship in Australia. It's bad policy. It's a waste of money, it won't work and there are better alternatives. Not to mention the threat to free speech. But let's be absolutely clear:

If you think we will defeat internet filtering just by being right or just because the facts are on our side - think again. This is politics. If we don't get properly organised with a clear and consistent message that reaches the people who need to hear it - we WILL lose.

www.danupoyner.com/...-to-defeat-internet-censorship - Preview

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China Channel Firefox Add-on - Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It's open source, free and easy.

chinachannel.hk - Preview

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CircumventionTools (en)

Excellent guide to Censorship Circumvention tools.
Explains concepts of censorship and variety of tools and techniques that can be used to bypass filters

en.flossmanuals.net/CircumventionTools - Preview

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