[1]Central Asia:
Picture: “By The Kabul River [1]” By Afghan Lord [2].
Waheed at Afghan Warrior weighs in [3] on the recent anti-U.S. protests, in the wake of Newsweek's now-retracted story. He believes the Taliban tried but failed to take advantage of the situation.
Nathan of Registan.net was interviewed by the BBC [4] about Uzbekistan, which he has been following closely on his blog. He has the full MP3 audio here [5]. He also points us to his latest article on the Uzbekistan crisis at OpenDemocracy [6].
Africa:
Jewels in the Jungle has a roundup [7]of blog-coverage of the Ethiopian Parliamentary election.
Black Looks reports [8] that Spain is jumping on the “Africa bandwagon.”
She is also unimpressed [9] with U.S. the latest U.S. counter-terrorism initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Meskel Square on how news organizations (and enterprising people with photocopy machine access) are making money [10] as all Ethiopia waits [11] for results of Sunday's election.
Amber Henshaw has a firsthand account [11] of the voting.
Kenyan Pundit links [12] to a documentary [13] on the rise of Kenyan hip-hop.
Middle East:
Aswantiba quips [14]: “Who needs Newsweek when you got Al-Jazeera?”
“From Cairo, With Love” says people find his blog for the strangest reasons [15].
Farideh at Iran Scan notices [16] that a professor at Rutgers University is one of the thousand-plus people who registered their candidacy to run for president of Iran.
Yasser at Under Underground describes the propaganda [17] on Iranian TV.
Free Iraqi has some critical words [18] for Spirit of America [19], which has democracy development-related projects in Iraq. SoA director Jim Hake responds in the comments section.
Israpundit has the scoop [20] on the real Indiana Jones.
“Refugee” at Bethlehem Bloggers wonders [21]whether the occupation will mess up his/her summer vacation.
Beiruit Spring gives high marks [22] to the new U.S. ambassador so far.
South Asia:
Niraj says India's growing middle class is having trouble hiring domestic help [23] these days… and that this is a bi-product of India's economic growth.
East Asia:
EastSouthWestNorth comments on issues of “media responsibility and ethics” in light of a series of photographs [24] that have been spreading like a virus around Chinese cyberspace. The pictures are allegedly of a TV hostess from a local station in the Southern city of Shenzhen, in bed with a man purported to be a senior city official, but there's no way to tell for sure.
Andrea Leung recommends a report [25] on the internet in China [26]by Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker.
Pacific:
There is a blog from the Cook Islands [27]. Now you have no excuse not to know where that is…
Europe:
“Fistfull of Euros” on Dutch Euro-skepticism [28] and the Dutch Finance Minister, who has a blog [29].
Gavin thinks its time [30] for another Irish blog meeting, and gives us some links into the Irish blogosphere.
Meanwhile Twenty Major has some suggestions [31]that would make fighting Ireland's organized crime more fun.
Ever heard of the Mari people? They're an ethnic group related to the Finns living deep inside Russia. Helsinkitimes.net claims [32] they face discrimination and lack autonomy.
“Central Budapest” muses about Hungarian grumpiness [33].
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