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Entries from August 2008

Wireless Broadband, 3G Technology

August 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Kinda Makkia is a 24-year-old Syrian student at the Syrian Virtual University. As she is studying for MBA and needs to surf the net very often, she purchased the new 3G internet technology service from mobile phone provider, Syriatel, two months ago to solve her internet problems. ‘It is expensive and has many problems. Upload [...]

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Police declares search for five Sierra Leonean fugitives

August 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya The Sierra Leone Police has declared a search warrant for five people who were alleged to have involved in political riots that resulted to the death of one person, mass injuries and the raping of many women at the headquarters of the Sierra Leone peoples party few months back. The fugitives including [...]

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Two Months Already?

August 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Next Saturday August 30th, I will be heading home after two months in Germany. It had seem as if the day will never come. For someone with a busy lifestyle back home, it was difficult to get into this routine of getting back into the classroom. The longest I have been away from my country [...]

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Today the Fish, Tomorrow Us

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Private cars were hardly seen in Freiburg. Streets of that typical South German town filled with bicycles and walkers. Only 35% people of Freiburg has personal cars. They seems to keen more of renewable energies, with all solar panels which can be easily find at the side of the roads. Inside of the old town [...]

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Who’s Cleaning the Doggy Poo?

August 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Berliners are fed up with dog muck. Berlin, a city of 3.4 millions, to the outsiders seems run very well. But the dogs are big problems. Every day, 200.000 Berlin’s dogs produce 16 tons of muck. Most of it just lying on the street, not being pick up by the dog’s owners.

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The Tour That Left Me Speechless!

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

When we set out 9 am from the guest house in Berlin on August 2 led by Tobias, the InWEnt assistant attached to the participants of the 2008 Multimedia and Online Journalism by International Institute of Journalism, we knew we were in for loads of fun but by the end of it all it surpassed [...]

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Back to Kabul

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

By Nasim Fekrat I am in Kabul now. Over the last few weeks I was in Hamburg, Germany, for a Summer school on freedom and responsibilities in media. What a wonderful occasion and what wonderful people from 18 countries who I’ve met there. I miss all of them now and the only thing that remains [...]

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