· March, 2008

Stories about South Asia from March, 2008

Bangladesh: Fighting the cycle of poverty

  17 March 2008

In this week's roundup we will highlight some of the discussions happening in the Bangladeshi Blogosphere on the issues of Poverty, LGBT and Travel . Poverty: Bangladesh is a developing country and the main problem of this country is overpopulation. It has one of the highest population density among the...

Sri Lanka: Blog Marathon!

  13 March 2008

The Sinhala Bloggers Union [Sri Lanka] presents the Sinhala Blog Marathon – where participants have to blog every 15 minutes over 24 hours!

Sri Lanka: Detained journalists

  13 March 2008

Transcurrents.com on six people affiliated a news website who have been detained by the Terrorist Investigation Division of the Sri Lankan police force in Colombo since last week.

Pakistan: On being attacked

  13 March 2008

As civilians are attacked in Pakistan by various terrorists, The Pakistani Spectator asks why citizens are attacked for no fault of their own.

India: Losing Goa and the Scarlett Keeling homicide case

  13 March 2008

My heart cries out that Goa the land of Sex, Drugs, Music, the once land of the hippies and lost Gods, had to be brought under the crime radar as a threat. Although I am partial in judging Goa, the land I spent my childhood and almost every other summer,...

India: Marching to Tibet

  12 March 2008

Tibetan Uprising provides constant updates on a march to Tibet from India to protest China's actions.

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