Stories about Breaking News from August, 2007
Dominica: Tropical Storm Approaching
Living Dominica reports that the island is caught “in the cross hairs of Tropical Storm Dean”.
China: Chongqing home buyers cheated
Don't mess with Chinese homeowners. A property development company in one central Chinese city tried backing out of an agreement which left empty-handed people who thought they had already bought a new home and led to angry and destructive retaliation, including clashes with police that netizens are saying turned violent.
China: Giant Cat-fish?
Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reported on the discovery of a giant man-eating cat-fish in a Guangdong reservoir. However some netizens said that the mutant cat-fish may in fact be a whale shark. See for yourself.
Kyrgyzstan: SCO summit
The members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will send their heads of state to Kyrgyzstan next week. While the Kyrgyz bloggers are amazed by the beautification of their capital ahead of the summit, Western bloggers ponder the significance of the SCO's growth.
Syria: Lebanese Border and Toilet Etiquette
Yazan Badran takes us on a tour of Syrian blogs where bloggers are discussing the worsening of conditions of Syrian workers and families at the Lebanese-Syrian border, calls for the return of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel to Syria, the Czech machine gun and toilet etiquette.
Morocco: Censorship Makes Headlines Yet Again
Another issue of press freedom has hit Morocco, and Moroccan bloggers are once again frustrated. Find out what happened this time as we take a tour through both Anglophone and Francophone Moroccan blogs.
Japan: Death Penalty Killings
The Asia Death Penalty blog has a post about an appeal from Amnesty International to stop the death penalty killings of three men in Japan scheduled for tomorrow (August 9th). As mentioned in the post, there are suspicions that the timing of the killings was scheduled to line up with...
Barbados: Power of the People
A 3.6 million dollar drug haul causes Barbados Underground to write: “Each citizen in Barbados has a responsibility to do the right thing. Sometimes, it takes only one or two persons to step-up, which can have a significant difference on outcomes. In recent times, the missing ingredient has been the...
Russia/Georgia: Russian attack?
Andy at Siberian Light reports that Georgia claims that attacked its territory from the air, sparking a diplomatic row.
Afghanistan: Hostage crisis
Mohammad Fahim Khairy translates passages of an article by local Afghan media claiming that four female Korean hostages have been sexually assaulted by their kidnappers.
China: Blogger goes to court
Back in late February, bridge blogger I, Yee wrote a post on the plight of Yetaai, an open source programmer in Shanghai who had noticed that a website of his had been blocked. Yetaai did some tests and discovered the problem originated within the China Telecom network, so he phoned...
Afghanistan: Hostage crisis background
Carl Robichaud publishes the answers he gave to a South Korean reporter covering some of the backgrounds to the current hostage crisis.
Egypt: Police-Sinai Bedouins Clash
Egyptian police clashed with Sinai Bedouins, reports Hossam Al Hamalawy.
Afghanistan: Violent end to hostage crisis?
Eugene Echo says that hoping for a peaceful resolution to the hostage crisis in Afghanistan might be in vain now that a military operation seems to have been launched to free the 23 South Koreans.
Afghanistan: Missionaries not aid workers
The South Korean hostages were carelessly jeopardising their own safety and were in fact Christian missionaries trying to convert Muslims in a volatile war region in Afghanistan's south. Dr. X thinks that this makes the case for a prisoner exchange to free them less convincing.
