Stories from 18 August 2005
Ethiopia: U.S. defamation suit
Ethiopundit comments on a defamation suit filed in a U.S. court by the Ethiopian government against four of its citizens in connection with allegations made by a U.S./German radio station and Web site.
India: Whatever happened to TOI?
ia: Whatever happened to TOI?
Korea: Made in China
How do North and South Korea commemorate their liberation from Japanese rule 60 years ago, and the 5-year-old joint North-South declaration? Joint-produce a line of wristwatches – manufactured in North Korea under the direction of a South Korean watchmaker. Symbols of Korean unity? Perhaps. Exhilaration? Wait a minute. According to...
Singapore: Artsy blog
What will become when a young Singaporean lawyer turns blogger? An artsy Reader's Eye… and poems by Gilbert Koh that got published from Singapore to Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Singapore: Mother of all freedoms
To some, politics is the pursuit of happiness: “… political freedoms are important only because without them, we can’t secure the other freedoms–because we would have to count upon the benevolence of our liberal and enlightened overlords, which is basically madness.” That's from a Singapore Angle.
Philippines: ‘GloriaGate'?
The impeachment of the chief tenant at Malacanang Palace still hogs the blog headlines. There are two observations from Sassy Lawyer, one went to her column in Manila Standard Today, the other to three lawyers who jumped into the headlines behind the warrantless raid.
China: Anti-blog blocked
Anti-blog and all blogs on blog-city.com has been blocked by the Great Firewall. Readers from China may access it via mirror site available at MSN: http://spaces.msn.com/members/mranti/. Meanwhile, anti2 is coming soon.
China: Wangjianshou among Feedster Top 500
There was a scare that Wang Jianshuo's blog was blocked by the Great Firewall yesterday, but it reappears intact today. Kenlee reports that Wangjianshuo's blog is the only blog from China that is ranked on Feedster's TOP 500 Blogs, at the 356th placing this month. But Wang Jianshou couldn't see...
Ethiopia: Wake up, Zimbabwe
Friends of Ethiopa posts extracts from a speech slamming Western inconsistencies on matters of human rights in African countries, among other things.
Armenia: Tough talk on Nagorno Karabakh
Blogrel‘s Hovakim notes that Azeri President Ilham Aliyev has been “talking tough” again about possible military action over Nagorno Karabakh, a largely ethnic Armenian enclave which seceded from Azerbaijan in 1991, but says ordinary people on both sides are unlikely to want to go along with it.
Georgia: Dead horse burns
Kaukasus posts a striking photograph entitled “Dead Horse Burns”, by Stefan Hostettler, and muses on the meaning of the horse in human culture.
Ukraine: Memories of Soviet youth camps
For Ukrainian blogger Veronica Khokhlova, the 80th anniversary of the former Soviet Communist Pioneers youth camp at Artek brings back memories of her own experiences.
Sudan: Rains bring threat of disease
Heavy rains which have hit the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur in recent days have increased the threat of waterborne disease, blogs aid worker Sleepless in Sudan.
Russia: Suicide in the military
Every month, around 20 people in the Russian armed forces commit suicide, according to a Russian newspaper article translated by Scraps of Moscow.
Armenia: Penal colony photos
Oneworld Multimedia has posted photos taken at a penal colony for women and youths in Abovyan, Armenia.
South Africa: The Zuma Crisis
Laurence Caromba writes on commentary.co.za about the choices facing South Africa's ruling elite. Will the rule of law prevail, or the rule of men? he asks.
