Stories from 16 August 2005
Lebanon: Bin Laden's book
Abu Aardvark believes that publishing bin Laden's writings and speeches strikes is a positive thing and publishing the words of a mass murderer and terrorist is hard to defend normatively. But fighting against radical Islamism requires understanding it.
Aruba: Election Madness
Lost in Smallness says that in Aruba, “by law, every voter must get four continous hours free from work.
Egypt: Update on Sinai Terrorist Attack
The Sandmonkey update on Sinai Terrorist Attack and says that the international media is ignoring it for some strange reason. Claims of responsbility for Yesterdays Sinai Terrorist attack have been made by a group called the Mujahedeen of Egypt. It's worth noting that this is one of the three groups...
Iraq: Al-Qaeda's threats
Mohammed of Iraq The Model writes that the Sunni respond to Al-Qaeda's threats.
Iraq: The New Constitution
New Deadline for the Iraqi Constitution, Raed Jarrar says that the Iraqi constitution shouldn’t be rushed through. Iraqis have the right to take as much time as they need to write their country’s constitution.
El Salvador: Remittance Investment
Juanson World is disillusioned that more Salvadoran immigrants in the U.S. aren't investing money in development back home.
Ecuador: Against Recruiting of Mercenaries
The Ecuadorean government has expressed reservations about the recruitment of mercenary soldiers out of the port city of Manta. Concern rose over this job posting offering ex-Colombian soldiers as private security workers in Iraq.
Bolivia: Failed States Index Map
Newley Purnell wants to know why Bolivia isn't on the Foreign Policy Failed States Index Map while Ecuador and Peru are.
Israel: more disengagement reactions
More Israeli voies on the disengagement.
Too many democratic revolutions, Russia complains
Registan takes issue with Russia's complaints about “forcible” democratization in former Soviet states.
Turkish scholar freed in Armenia
Blogrel links to reports that Turkish scholar Yektan Turkyilmaz has been freed by the Armenian authorities and promises more details to come.
Taliban fighters killed, captured
AfghanWarrior reports on continued fighting between the Afghan National Army and Taliban insurgents.
Malaysia: English – Benglish Translator
The ever-intrepid Kenny Sia impressed by the variety and quality of machine translation on the web, has written the first ever English-to-Benglish translator.
Darfur: A blogger's background notes
Ingrid at Sudan Watch has posted a series of background notes on the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, including a summary of views of the Arab militia leader Musa Hilal, who is suspected of being behind many of the recent ethnic-cleansing style attacks on African villages.
Blog Maps
eGrupos, an online social networking site based in Sunnyvale, California has developed El BlogoMapa Hispano, an online directory of weblogs in Spanish, which shows the bloggers’ locations using the Google Maps API. If you have a weblog written in Spanish and it is not included on the map, you may...
China: Hitch in the Alibaba deal?
China Herald comments on an article pointing out that many of the goods for sale on Alibaba, the Chinese internet portal that Yahoo! is heavily investing in, are counterfit.
China: PLA Wanted ads
Hong Kong-based blog Simon World looks at the PLA's policy towards marriage and co-habitiation in the ranks.
China: how returned overseas chinese viewed by locals?
In response to a reader query, Bingfeng Teahouse writes about how returning overseas Chinese are viewed by locals.
South Korea: The Blog Blackout of 2005
The Marmot’s Hole notes that TypePad and Blogspot were apparently blocked in South Korea over the weekend, apparently to honor that country's Independence Day.
Bangladesh: How we change
Bangladesh: How we change
India: Pedestrians in Mumbai
India: Pedestrians in Mumbai
