Stories from 10 August 2005
Chile: Chilean at Wikimania
Quemar las Naves sends greetings to his fellow countryman, Juan David who just finished attending Wikimania in Frankfurt, Germany, the first international Wikimedia conference.
Puerto Rico: Taíno Indians Still Awaiting Arrest
Roberto Borrero of The Voice of the Taino People has the latest on two indigenous Taino protesters in Puerto Rico occupaying the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico.
Bolivia: Evo Morales and Alvaro Garcia Linera?
MABB says populist leader Evo Morales might try unifying the left by asking leftist intellectual, Garcia Linera to run on the same ticket as vice-president.
France: Drink Local, Drink Montmartre! (WBW12)
Popular food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier writes about the vinyards of Montmartre, in Paris. While one does not normally associate Paris with the creation of wine, apparently a large part of...
Mexico: Zapatistas and Penguins
Boli-Nica has the entire story of the Zapatistas’ recent adoption of a penguin as a symbol of their decade long struggle for indigenous rights in Mexico. The official Zapatista website,...
Bolivia: Is Chavez Funding Evo Morales?
Jim Shultz of Blog from Bolivia looks into the claim that Hugo Chavez is secretly funding Bolivian leftist presidential candidate, Evo Morales.
Ghana: Why do we blog?
Ghanian blogger David Mends–who just started blogging yesterday–asks why do we blog?
China: great wall party – the secret route to lobby the chinese congress
Bingfeng Teahouse traces the route that a story about an annual rave at the Great Wall took to get to the front page of China Daily. Unsurprisingly, it's a complicated...
Thailand: Bangkok Post Story Has Holes
Sarasonteh looks at a Bangkok Post story about problems with the runways at the Bangkok airport and discovers that the real problems were with the story, not the runways.
Thailand: Dad's Thailand, my Thailand
A guest blogger on Thai-Blogs.com reflects on the differences between her Thailand and her father's Thailand.
Sudan: Hard Work and Bad Connections in Darfur
Humanitarian Hijinks reports that tensions are running high in the refugee camps and that it's taking its toll on both aid workers and camp residents: “Truth in Darfur is becoming...
Paraguay: US Military Base?
Benjamin Dangl, who can usually be found on Upside Down Blog, this week does a roundup on Toward Freedom of local media attention in South America about a supposed U.S....
Somaliland: Somaliland editors adopt new code of conduct for elections
Journalists inside Somaliland have developed a code of conduct for covering the upcoming Somaliland elections.
little fish: Singapore's 40th Birthday
The Singaporean blog Little fish chronicles the top ten most popular pieces of Singaporean slang.
Argentina: Recoleta Cemetery
Just a week after Marisa posted photos from her visit to Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Line of Sight announces that he has finished a painstakingly detailed map of the...
Argentina: Second Serbian War Criminal Caught
Expat Argentina comments on yesterday's apprehension of Serbian war criminal, Milan Lukic in Buenos Aires. She believes Argentina is still struggling to shed its image as a haven for war...
Argentina: Debt-for-Education Swaps
Diego, writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina, continues with his third post on debt-for-education swaps in Latin America.
Georgia & Ukraine: Georgian President and Ukrainian PM get it on. In a helicopter.
Siberian Light points out that Russian filmmakers are trying to cash in on the relationship between two former Soviet republics by making a blue movie that features the doppelgangers of...
Nigeria: Sino-Nigerian relationship: True partnership?
Chippla's Weblog takes another look at the relationship between China and Nigeria.
Philippines: A Raul Roco Story
Tales from Disiniland relays a tale about the beloved late politician Raul Roco.
Kenya: Blogging, Kenyan Women & Opening of Democratic Spaces…
The Kenya Democracy Project puts up a long post about Kenyan women who blog.
