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		<title>Syria: Art of Dialogue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;An argument in olden Arab times was like a dance. People wooed each other, rejected or accepted, negotiated, insulted and convinced each other using subtle messages &#038; connotations, all applied courteously,&#8221; notes 50% Syrian.
   
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		<title>Jamaica, U.S.A.: Poetic Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamaicans Geoffrey Philp&#39;s Blogspot and Poet in Wisconsin both post poems in honour of Barack Obama.
   
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		<title>Japan: Japanese Language in the Age of English</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fall of the Japanese Language in the Age of English, the latest book by Japanese novelist and essayist Minae Mizumura, roused debate among many Japanese bloggers recently over the fate of their national language. Some wondered whether their country would one day adopt English as the mother tongue, and what that would mean for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan: 2008 Neologisms and Trendy Words</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Presenting this year&#39;s 60 neologisms and trendy words [jp], among which only one will be elected representative for 2008, Kôgetsu describes briefly[jp] the events that influenced the choice and Japanese public opinion on the topic this year. His ?best three? words are: subprime, tainted rise (???) and ?Ponyo Ponyo, sakana no ko?. His ?best three? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: Bloggers Unite to Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in the Syrian blogosphere, local Syrian bloggers have came up with a refreshing idea; forming an online book club in which they decide on reading a certain book, and after 10 days, each reader would offer her/his reading of the book on their personal blogs.
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		<title>Grenada: Sorrel Season</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grenada&#39;s Free Spirit writes a poem about making West Indian sorrel.
   
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		<title>Malagasy Online Spell Checker is Now Available</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dotmg announces that the free Malagasy spell checker he has been developing is now operational. The software, which is, as far as I know the first of its kind, is:&#8221;opensource, and is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (or above). It is part of a larger project called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore: Advice for expatriates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lam Chun See from Singapore has a message for expatriates: &#8220;If you want to come to work and live in Singapore, you should adapt to our ways and not expect us to adapt to yours.&#8221;
   
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		<title>Brazilian myths and haunts in the Lusosphere - Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To bring this series about Brazilian myths, legends and haunts as seen on the Lusosphere to a great close, we couldn&#8217;t choose a better entity to speak about than Saci Pererê. After being introduced to mythic beings like Cuca, Boitatá and Curupira in the first article, and reading the intriguing narratives about Cabeça de Cuia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trinidad &#038; Tobago: Book of the Week</title>
		<link>http://www.onlinelearningnews.net/2008/10/31/trinidad-tobago-book-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caribbean lit-blog Antilles picks as its &#8220;Book of the Week&#8221; Ian McDonald&#39;s Selected Poems, which it describes as &#8220;a long-overdue survey of the career of one of the Caribbean&#39;s most admired writers.&#8221;
   
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