· March, 2006

Stories about Ideas from March, 2006

South Korea: The Confucian ideal

The Asia Pages writes a long analysis of the usefulness of Confucian values in modern East Asian societies, noting strong biases in favor of males and older people, and wondering...

15 March 2006

Bloggers & Nuclear Case

Report on Iranian nuclear programme sent to United Nations Security Council by IAEA. Bloggers have a lot to share about this very important event. Abtahi, former Vice President, (Persian) says...

14 March 2006

Iran: Google & Nowrouz

Thanks to Salman's blog, first blog in Persian in history, I discovered a site which tries to promote Iranian New Year, Nowrouz, on Google. People are invited to send following...

14 March 2006

China: God or Darwin?

Bingfeng Teahouse cites a recent on-line poll on Sina (ZH) which showed around 35 percent of respondents saying that they believed in a form of universal intelligence as the architect...

14 March 2006

South Korea: The realm of the Mothers

The Asia Pages relates a long and intense debate about parental sacrifice and obligation with a Korean man on-line. In the end, she is told, she doesn't understand because she's...

13 March 2006

Interview with Nasrin Alavi

There are about 75000 blogs in Persian in world and their numbers are growing fast. We are Iran, written by Nasrin Alavi and published in English and German. It is...

11 March 2006

Iran: Street & Nuclear

View from Iran, an Iran based blogger, talks about Iranian public opinion about nuclear issues. Blogger says “Why do Iranians mistrust everything the government tells them, but trust their spin...

10 March 2006

Philippines: A New Voice

On Feb. 27, in the wake of demonstrations calling for the overthrow Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino blogger Bong Austero wrote a post called an “Open Letter to Our...

9 March 2006

Iran: Channel4 Blogging

Shahram Kholdi, UK based blogger, talks about UK Channel4 journalist's blog about Iran & from Iran. Jon Snow is heading Channel 4 team in Iran and they are posting interesting...

8 March 2006

China: Boom or bust

AsiaPundit is in Beijing to cover the National People's Congress, and is writing about a myriad issues which are exercising delegates’ minds, including gay marriage, edible toothpicks, and a call...

6 March 2006

Hong Kong: Who killed Dai Fei?

Glutter takes a deep breath and dives in to embrace a conspiracy theory surrounding the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in that fateful car chase in Paris. “You will...

3 March 2006