Stories about Economics & Business from December, 2006
Hungary: Chinese Community
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about Hungary's Chinese community.
South Asia : People, Prayers, Movies and Politics
The latest buzz from different blogs from South Asia: Bangladesh: - Mezba of a Bengali in TO, a Bangladeshi expat living in Canada describes why is it beneficial to sacrifice...
Taiwan: travel 2.0
FUNCK CHEN applies the concept of web 2.0 to travel: a travel service that helps the tourists to define their own travel content and environment, etc. (zh)
China: cultural bureau
Wang Xiao feng criticises that the Cultural Bureau does not promote culture in China because it defines everything new as “unhealthy” (zh).
Barbados: Corporate Governance
Barbados Free Press refers to an article from the Trinidad Express that calls for corporate governance to be made more transparent by law.
Aruba: Disappointing Strike
Arubagirl was all geared up for a national strike against a 3% sales tax that the government is planning to introduce, but it all came to nought.
Singapore: Youtube Video Leads to Firing of a Temp Employee
Themediaslut writes about an ISP/Mobile provider in Singapore who fired a temp worker for putting up a video on youtube that featured him and another employee playing around in the...
Fiji: Bringing Tourists in after the Coup
The Invest in Fiji blog talks about an group being set up to encourage tourists to spend their holidays in Fiji. The tourists may be staying out because of a...
India: Suicides in Kerala
“Dog's Own Country?” on the high suicide rate in Kerala. “It is a sad fact that Kerala has the highest suicide rate in India. A friend of mine once speculated...
Jamaica: Encourage Entrepreneurship
Fwade cites entrepreneurship as a critical contributing factor to Jamacia's economy: “The truth is that educating another lawyer, doctor or accountant is unlikely to contribute much to our GDP. Narrow...
Lebanon: Demonstrations, Demonstrations
A series of anti-government or opposition and pro-government protests and demonstrations are literally taking the country by storm. Lebanese bloggers are, as expected, expressing their positions, whether pro, con or...
Ukraine: Kyiv's Mayor
Ukrainiana writes about Kyiv's new mayor: “If true, that would make Chernovetsky and Yanukovych two of a kind. The “Better Living Today” they promised turned out to be a “Big...
Japan: wealth
Alexpappas in Japundit puts forward a local report about the distribution of wealth: Japan is home to a fifth of the world’s richest 10% of adults in terms of global...
China: I have no legs
A lump of coal would actually come in handy for the cold souls in Petitioner Village this winter, judging from the stories told in The China Next Door, a photo...
Africa: thoughts on African blogosphere
Grandiose Parlor weighs in on Black Looks’ post, Technorati Bomb for Africa.
Voices from Central Asia
Anara – by teokaye Anara is one of the ‘youth at risk’ that took part in the weekend trip. Instead of going to school, she supports her family by collecting...
Trindad & Tobago: Smelting or Listening?
Jeremy Taylor wishes there were some way to “impress on a government the wisdom of listening” as debate rages on about the construction of aluminium smelter plants in Trinidad and...
Ethiopia: leveraging poverty
Ethiopundit puts the Ethiopian government dispute with Starbucks over trademark in a historical perspective, ” Again? You see dear reader, back in 2002, Meles ran the same con game on...
Africa: Google in Africa
N'cho Blog writes about Google's plan to expand into Lusophone Africa, “Google is planning to invest in Portugal and use it as a way into Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique...
Tanzania: Tanzania's nightmare
My Africa Today reviews the documentary, Darwin's Nightmare: “At first, it seems as if he's emphasizing that Europe doesn't provide anything to Africa in return for the food. But he...
China: cigarettes quotas
Zat Liu explains why a domestic cigarettes brand Zhongnanhai were out of sale in Shanghai: every year Zhongnanhai gives different regions certain quotas…
