Stories from 27 July 2005
Meet ThaRum: Cambodia's Second Most Famous Blogger
Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia, a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital...
Iran: Supporters of Akbar Ganji arrested including bloggers
From the Committee to Protect Bloggers: Some of the young people who had gone to Milad Hospital (on 25 July) following a call by bloggers to show support for Akbar...
China: Feedburner Meets Bokee
Feedburner has just announced a partnership with BlogChina Bokee. It should be interesting to see how their offering integrate with each other.
Ecuador: Manta Urban Fire
Pedro Santana C. has new photos of last week's urban fire in Manta, Ecuador. Eduardo Ochoa of Li-1 blogged and photographed the fire [es] the same day it happened and...
El Salvador: US children in El Salvador
Tim's El Salvador Blog writes that there are 15,000 children with U.S. citizenship living in El Salvador and a total of 2.3 million Salvadorans living in the U.S.
Tunisia: Al-Jawhara FM Hits Airwaves
The Tunisian blog Subzero Blue reports that the country's second privately-owned radio station has started broadcasting.
Sudan: The Humanitarian Air Service
The author of Humanitarian Hijinks heads out to Khartoum on the Humanitarian Air Service, the world's lowest-budget airline.
Paraguay: Rumored U.S. Military Base
Benjamin Dangl of Upside Down Blog tries to get to the bottom of a rumored U.S. military base in Paraguay which supposedly doesn't exist.
South Africa: Blacks Only!
Jo'Blog reports on a new country club in South Africa that is blacks only…
Singapore: Bloggers in the news
Mr.Brown has a great roundup of news stories featuring Singaporean bloggers.
Latin America: Inter-American Development Bank Elections
Juanson World has an excellent rundown of the candidates to join the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Development. His post was then updated at 1 p.m. to note that...
Malaysia: This is outrageous!
Jeff Ooi quotes an economist as saying that the Malaysian ringgit could rise as high as RM3.00 to the US dollar within six to twelve months. For comparison's sake, the...
Perú: Live 8
Diana Zorilla Rios of Lima, Peru says the Peruvian media did a pretty poor job covering Live8, but not to worry because the bloggers had it under contro [es]
Kenya: Who Will Win the November Referendum?
The Kenya Democracy Project asks who will win the November referendum?
Egypt: Nancy, and others, step up against terror
Abu Aarvark passes on the news that Lebanese pop superstar Nancy Ajram will be holding a charity relief concert at Sharm al-Shaykh in reponse to this weekend's terror attacks there.
Venezuela: New Voting System
The Sumate Files looks at a controversial new voting system which will be tested out in two states during next month's elections.
Venezuela: Tulio Alvarez Arrested
Daniel of Venezuela News and Views is updating a post throughout the day on the reported arrest of Venezuelan opposition lawyer, Tulio Alvarez, by the Venezuelan National Guard.
Venezuela: Land Reform
Tomas Sancio of Baruta, Venezuela talks about land reform and the problems it is causing on the blog, Venezuela Politics.
Iran: More on Ganji
Iran Scan posts a reponse to Hoder's post about imprisioned Iranian journalist Akbar Ganji.
Australia: Australia back-flip
Macam-Macam addresses Australia's signing of the ASEAN Treaty of Amity and Co-operation.
United Arab Emirates: No Longer Banned in Dubai
An astute reader mentions in the comments to this post that the once-banned blog Secret Dubai Diary has been unbanned by the authorities. As a side note, if you click...
