Stories about Language from August, 2008
Taiwan: China Taipei!
Michael Turton from The View from Taiwan comments on the recent debate about Taiwan's status in Beijing Olympics. The blogger points out that the term Taiwan has disappeared in the recent naming debate, now it is a choice between Chinese Taipei or China Taipei.
China: Considering the Olympics with an open mind
Highly recommend you read this post from media psychologist Pamela Rutledge which would have Chinese bloggers doing countless push-ups if they (could) read it. On the recent terrorism incidents: “I can’t imagine the hoopla in Homeland Security if the U.S. had been getting the amount of terrorist threats that China...
Angola: Angola towards the elections in DVD
The educational DVD “Angola towards the elections“, produced during a training in participatory video, will be distributed free to institutions that work with Angolan electoral education. “The main purpose of the video is to bring about the democratisation process in Angola focusing on the coming legislative elections.” The audio is...
China: On parachute reporting for the Olympics
Last week tech blogger Thomas Crampton looked at the issues faced by foreign journalists “parachuting” into the Olympics, such as getting a scoop vs. getting a source in trouble. A post today from Adam at Shanghai Scrap almost makes you wonder if the latter is unavoidable.
Russia: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Gulag Archipelago, has died on Sunday. He was 89. Reactions to Solzhenitsyn's death are already beginning to appear in the Russophone blogosphere, and here's one post on the writer's legacy, by LJ user markgrigorian.
Blogger of the week: Hanako Tokita
In this week's installment of the Blogger of the Week series we talked to Hanako Tokita, the editor of the Global Voices Lingua site in Japanese and author for Japan, about blogging, the perception of Japan and of course her involvement with Global Voices.
Mozambique: 2038?
What will Mozambique be like in 30 years? Sociologist Carlos Serra provides nine "Byzantine" scenarios and invites his readers to amend them as they see fit
Ukraine: ‘Novynar’ Shuts Down
IZO quotes the publisher of a Ukrainian-language news magazine Novynar on the reasons to shut down the publication.
China: BBC lambasted for stock photo inaccuracy
"We use LCD screens now, how could a photo with such an old monitor be called news? Do they think we haven't been developing here these past eight years? They can't even make fake news properly!"
