Stories about Humanitarian Response from October, 2007
Egypt: Additive and Subtractive Thinking
Additive and subtractive thinking is the topic of today's translation from Arabic by Tarek Amr. Do we pick and choose the values we like from ideologies or do we simply 'subtract' them from our consciousness because there are aspects in them we don't agree with?
Egypt: Efficiency
Efficiency is not just a scientific term used by Mechanical Engineers. The Egyptian blogger Ahmed Tharwat (Ya Marakby) decided to apply it on society as well as Tarek Amr shows us in this post he has translated from Arabic.
China: Fragile Morality
A young man fought for justice alone but received a buffet, other 60 passengers ignoring the tragedy; after Pengyu case, no people dare to help an old man, leaving him lying alone on the ground. What is wrong with our modern society? Have people to be apathetic to survive? Report on two moral-related cases leads you into discussions of our fragile morality.
Myanmar: A Journalist's Debrief
Karen Coates blogs about an event at the Foreign Correspondents club in Thailand where a photojournalist presented pictures of recent events in Myanmar.
Poland: Irena Sendlerowa, 97, for Nobel
The beatroot writes about the woman who may beat Bono and Al Gore to the Nobel Peace Prize this year: “Twenty four years after Lech Walesa won it, 97-year-old Irena Sendlerowa – who is famous in Poland for protecting many, many Jewish children during the Nazi occupation of WW II...
Bulgaria: Abandoned Children
Wanabehuman writes about a documentary on Bulgaria's abandoned children.
Malaysia: Assume Corporate Responsibility
Malaysian politician Lim Kit Siang has written a petition addressing a Malaysian oil company and asking them to assume corporate responsibility of events in Myanmar.
Myanmar: After The Protests
Bangkok Dazed has manged to contact his friends in Myanmar and has some accounts of the scene in the city that saw the biggest protests.
Myanmar: After The Protests
Bangkok Dazed has manged to contact his friends in Myanmar and has some accounts of the scene in the city that saw the biggest protests.
Egypt: A Visit to an Elderly House
Ramadan is the month of “good”. That’s how Muslims regard it worldwide. So don’t get amazed if you found various forms for “good deeds” performed amongst middle age youth here or there, writes Eman, who translates a post by an Egyptian doctor who pays a visit to an elderly house.
Myanmar: Treat Us Like The Rest
Anti-Sanctions blogger Freedom From Fear wants the world to treat Myanmar the same as rest of the non-democratic nations. “IF YOU BOYCOTT BURMA , YOU DO THE SAME FOR CHINA AND VIETNAM, THAILAND AND ALL THE COUNTRIES WHICH DO NOT HAVE DEMOCRACY.DO NOT DISCRIMINATE BURMA.”
Myanmar: Video Clip Collection
Burma Underground has created an YouTube playlist for video files relating to the recent events in Myanmar.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Homeless in hospitals
“A debate is heating up the airwaves re homeless people who are kept in the General hospital as wards of the state,” writes And Still I Rise from St. Vincent. She weighs in on the use of hospitals as temporary accommodation.
Myanmar: View from Inside
Burma Underground has a post from a person inside Myanmar describing the happenings after the internet block.
Myanmar: List of Detainees and Letter From A 88 Generation Worker
Blogger Niknayman has a list of names and affiliations of over 300 monks and civilians who have been arrested by the Myanmar Military Regime. Many are from the National League of Democracy, the party led by Aung San Suu Kyi. Newspapers across Asia are putting the number of detained people...
Bahamas: More homeless people?
“There seems to have been an increase lately of people aimlessly wondering the streets,” writes Craig Butler at Bahama Pundit, as he contemplates the growing number of homeless people in the Bahamas.
Myanmar: More International Support
Yangon Thu links to sites that have pictures and news of international support for the protests in Myanmar. The blogger also requests readers to write to International Committee of the Red Cross to aid the monks who are on hunger strike in Yangon.
Myanmar: International Bloggers Day For Burma
International bloggers are coming together to mark October 4th as the international bloggers day for Burma.
Japan: Pregnant Foreign Woman Rejected By Hospital
Debito blogs a local news about a pregnant foreign woman rejected by 5 hospitals 7 times. There are some good discussions in the comment session.
Laos: Dam And Flooding
New Mandala analyzes a dam construction project by a Chinese company in Laos and the impact it will have on the locals.