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Written by Flora Thomas

Written by John Kennedy

This post is part of our special coverage Japan Earthquake 2011.

Written by Imane Eddbali

This post is part of our special coverage Libya Uprising 2011.

Written by Portnoy Zheng

Taiwan's indigenous population are often flattered by politicians as being the country's “real masters” or “original inhabitants”; they have been used to promote Taiwan tourism in television commercials around the world.

Written by محمد الجوهري · Translated by Mohamed ElGohary · View original post [ar]

Written by Gilad Lotan

In this post, we reflect on Egyptian blogger Hani Morsi's writing about technology driven activism and the role social media plays in providing incremental societal change. Hani's core argument focuses on the long term effects of social media. Rather than looking at it as a cathartic outlet for the oppressed, he stresses its value in making an otherwise impossible popular political discourse possible.

Written by Amira Al Hussaini

Now that ousted Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country, the question on everyone's mind is: Where is he headed to?

Netizens are putting their money on any one of the Arab Gulf Countries - which comprise of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.

By Maria Grabowski Kjær

By Ayesha Saldanha

Recently Beijing launched a new anti-vulgarity campaign for sanitizing the Internet. On August 3, China Daily and people.com.cn jointly organized a seminar on “boycotting banality, cliche and debased culture, improving the new media cultural quality” to set the principles and figure out strategies for the new moral campaign. Below is a summary of People's Daily's report on the seminar.

Definition of vulgarity