Stories about Health from May, 2007
China: Splitting hairs over stem cells
Stem cell research—it's an old topic, but it's also a top topic, at least for today as two key Chinese public intellectuals—one a tv news personality and the other a crusader against intellectual fraud and traditional Chinese medicine—battle it out on their PhoenixTV blogs. It started with this post yesterday...
Kuwait: Cats on Menu
“Someone emailed me telling me that the ministry shut down the Jahra branch of the ***** restaurant because it turned out they were catching street cats and using their meat for their Shawerma. Today this news is in the papers and here is a link to an article from Al...
Kuwait: In Case of Emergency
Kuwait blogger Sailor suggests a novel method to keep your next of kin informed in the case of an emergency. “As cell phones are carried by majority of the population, just store the number of a contact person or person who should be contacted during emergency as ICE” (meaning In...
US Virgin Islands: Sahara Dust
“Dust from the Sahara (yes, truly!) is being blown across the ocean and reducing visibility. It’s also increasing medical problems for people with allergies and asthma”: U.S. Virgin Island blogger Frank Barnako hopes the worst is over.
Brunei: AIDS Awareness Walk
EmmaGoodEgg in Brunei informs readers of an AIDS Awareness walk on Sunday. Emma says “Wake up bright and early on Sunday morning to be at the starting point by 6.30 am”
D. R. Congo: Park Rangers Attacked, Flying over Katanga, Music meets Social Activism, and Ants 2 – Brian 0
Access to the Internet in the Democratic Republic of Congo is gradually improving (World Bank figures suggest there are already over 6 million users), but will remain prohibitively expensive as long as service providers are dependent on satellite connections. In such a context, it should come as no surprise that there are only a handful of Congolese bloggers. Chatrooms and instant messaging are very popular, however, and with the influence of the Diaspora, it’s easy to imagine that many more young Congolese people will soon be following the footsteps of pioneers like Cedric, perhaps blogging in Lingala, Luba, Kikongo and Swahili as well as French.
Israel: Candy Warning
Israeli blogger David Bogner isn't happy with candy he bought at a local store. His advice to his readers is: “Look, a word to the wise. Stay away from ‘Klipp Klapp ACE-FIT’ candies… and for G-d sakes, stay the hell away from anything containing Isomalt. Unless, of course, you enjoy...
Angola: more than a thousand words
Koluki posts a picture worth a thousand words: “THE STORY IS: about the degradation of Angola's capital city, with its lack of infrastructure, effective public services and basic sanitation. To make things worse, because of the war, whose social and psychological effects are still present and unresolved everywhere, people from...
Kazakhstan: Village vs. Oil Company
neweurasia reports that a village claiming to have had its water supply tainted by an oil spill are turning to independent experts to make their case against the oil company responsible for the accident.
Mali: revisiting traditional medicine
Timbuktu Chronicles: Revisiting traditional medicine; “In the capital Bamako there is a laboratory where researchers spend their working days studying the medicinal effects of plants brought in from around the country – selected on the advice of traditional healers. The laboratory has been established by the Malian government which is...
Moldova: Charity Concert
Life in Moldova posts pictures from an HIV/AIDS benefit concert.
Ukraine: Prime Minister's Knee
Ukrainiana writes about the price of PM Yanukovych's knee surgery.
Morocco: Fighting ignorance, injustice, and irrationality
Giving one's child a special first name should be an inalienable right, not a lengthy bureaucratic process. Hamza Daoui covers a debate stirring up over this very issue, as well as the upcoming Moroccan elections and the timeless subject of ignorance.
Botswana: Zimbabweans in Nata village
Nata Village Blog: “Nata is located very close (about 30 miles) to the Zimbabwean border. Many of you following world news have undoubtedly heard of the crisis in Zimbabwe. Inflation in Zimbabwe has hit 2000% and unemployment is at an all time high. We are seeing more and more Zimbabweans...
Haiti, DR, Trinidad & Tobago: HIV in the Caribbean
“AIDS is a human disaster that we can no longer ignore, especially when it's in the backyard of the wealthiest country in the world,” writes Chris Hamilton, who traveled to the Caribbean to photograph some of the people most affected by HIV-AIDS.
Africa: Africa@home
Timbuktu Chronicles writes about Africa@home: “…AFRICA@home is a website for volunteer computing projects which allow your computer to contribute to African humanitarian causes…The first application being developed for AFRICA@home is called MalariaControl.net. This application models the way malaria spreads in Africa and the potential impact that new anti-malarial drugs may...
China: Delayed reporting
Chris O'Brien from Beijing Newspeak blogs about a recent delayed report by the Chinese government on an outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease in a city in Shandong.
Newest Malawian bloggers join global online conversations
It is no longer a secret that more Malawians are increasingly turning to the blogosphere for self-expression, information sharing, and commentary on a variety of Malawi related issues. This round-up will cover the newest entries into blogosphere with posts on politics, banking, health, city's cleanliness, racism, sms perils and personal reflections.
St. Lucia: Communication about Compton
“Sir John Compton, 82, is currently out of state for reasons yet unknown. I cannot understand how a head of state can leave a country with not so much as a word to the people…not even his ministers can give the Saint Lucian public a straight answer.” Looshan Ramblings wonders...
Bolivia: The Work of the Constituent Assembly and Government Regulations
After nine months, the work of the Constituent Assembly, which has been charged with writing a new constitution remains stagnant. In addition, the government has began to place restrictions on the import of used clothing and on the export of wood, and bloggers weigh in.
Make sure you grow while you sleep!
Make sure you grow while you sleep! Tall people are popular in Korea. Korean parents and young people are always keen on finding methods of being taller. A blogger introduces several methods: The more darkness in your room the better. Don’t eat at night. Don’t work out right before you...
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