Stories from 5 September 2005
Kenya: The bicycle economy
Timbuktu Chronicles reports on an initiative aimed at making load-carrying bicycles more available to ordinary Kenyans.
D.R. of Congo: A miner's life
Black Star‘s Brian also flags the plight of gold miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo as reported in the Christian Science Monitor.
Chad: Dictator cronies out
Black Star Journal reports the removal, finally, from the Chadian government of officials suspected of torture and other human rights abuses during the regime of Hissène Habré in the 1980s.
Nepal: Violence and unrest
Nepal: Violence and unrest
Nepal: With the king?
Nepal: With the king?
India: Through a child's eyes
India: Through a child's eyes
India: Once upon a Rock
India: Once upon a Rock
Oman: How Hurricanes are Named?
WickeD made a little search and can tell us now how hurricanes are named.
Iran: Nuke for Peace
Mohammed of Iraq The Model wonders, why is Iran choosing to defy the world withal the present dangers of a military reaction if Iran kept pushing things to the edge? Does Iran want to develop nuclear power for peaceful utilization? If that was the case then the European offer is...
Nigerian Blogging Scene
As the world is getting along well with blogging,the face of blogging in Nigeria is changing surely but slowly. As at the time of writing this piece there are not much (home based) Nigerians blogging especially when looked at in relationship to the number of people using the Internet in the country.
Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team
Katrina Help Lines from the KatrinaHelp.info team
Singapore: Writers Festival
Singapore Writers Festival drew to a close September 4. Author Cory Doctorow was there to give a talk.
Indonesia: Haze law suit
Indonesia Environment Forum (Walhi), a leading Indonesian NGO, is set to file a class action lawsuit against 10 companies in connection with the August forest fires and choking haze in Riau, Sumatra. Eight of the companies are said to be Malaysian-owned.
Taiwan: Romanization
Bogger ashaw cites a 1962 study as noting that Taiwan’s first periodical, a Presbyterian newsletter, was in romanized Taiwanese. Meanwhile, squabbling is underway over the romanization systems – the Tongyong Pinyin schemes – for Taiwanese dialects (Minnan, Hoklo, Hokkien etc). In this case, the author is a backer of the...
Indonesia: Katrina Hurricane
Indonesian blogger A. Fatih Syuhud appeals for alms for Americans affected by Katrina Hurricane. Singapore blogger Yuhui wonders if life will return toNew Orleans to the same level of its Mardi Gras-inspired madness.
Cambodia: Land crisis
There is a major land crisis in Cambodia, a leading United Nations human rights official said. Rich and powerful interests were grabbing land, leaving thousands of people dispossessed.
Cambodia: Khlog & Clog
Drupal, an open source content management system, will power the KhmerOS project and blogging tool that enables Cambodians to blog in own Khmer language based-weblog. It's going to be Khlog and Clog – the former stands for Khmer Blog, weblog in Khmer language; and the latter for Cambodia blog, weblog...
Vietnam: Amnesty
Pastor Quang was released on August 30 as part of the National Day amnesty, but evangelist Thach remains in prison
China: Naked web-chat
A Chinese researcher has warned of naked Internet chatting. Up to 20,000 Chinese Internet users log on to chatrooms each night in which users in various states of undress talk to each other with the help of Web cams.
Images from Chile: Letter to the Government
“Primera Carta al Gobierno sobre ‘Mi Primer PC'” by Leo Prieto As we have previously written about, a group of Chilean bloggers is challenging their government to improve a program which hopes to make both computers and Internet access more affordable for the general population. The caption reads: On a...
