16 September 2005

Stories from 16 September 2005

Interviews With The Diaspora

As part of an ongoing series on the potential role of the diaspora in building Armenian democracy, Onnik Krikorian has published his interview with Raffi K. Hovannisian, the US born...

17 September 2005

Community Based Tourism in Kyrgyzstan

Amira of The Golden Road to Samarkand writes about community based tourism in Kyrgyzstan, a model that is both inexpensive for travelers and that provides direct benefits to local populations,...

17 September 2005

China: Beijing tabloid

Danwei highlights the front page of the tabloid Beijing News, which features a photo of corrective surgery being performed on a three-legged hermaphrodite baby.

16 September 2005

China: Guangdong to close mines

China Digital Times notes, via the People's Daily, that the authorities in the southern province of Guangdong are to close all coal-mines following a flooding disaster at the Daxing coal-mine...

16 September 2005

U.S. Treasury fingers Macau bank

Barry Briggs at NKZoneblogs briefly about accusations from the U.S. Treasury Department that Banco Delta Asia in Macau is engaged in laundering money for criminal activities by North Korean government...

16 September 2005

Somalia: Political rallies

Inside Somaliland reports on two political rallies held to mark the start of campaigning for parliamentary elections in the internationally unrecognized territory, at which Somalia is urged to learn from...

16 September 2005

Zimbabwe: Grass roots action

Sokwanele Civic Action posts a story about a Christian activist engaged in helping forced evictees in Matabeleland, who has a brush with the law, with a somewhat unexpected outcome.

16 September 2005

Uganda: Release the condoms

Human Rights Watch posts an open letter signed by more than 100 groups and individuals inside and outside Uganda, calling on the governments of the United States and Uganda to...

16 September 2005

Sudan: Peace deadline passes

Sleepless in Sudan posts about the lack of news and the challenge of staying hopeful in the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur, sparking a long comment full of historical background...

16 September 2005

Mexican Independence Day

195 years ago today, in the town of Dolores, Guanajuato, a Catholic priest named Miguel Hidalgo rang the bell of his church and, in a call for Mexican independence, cried...

16 September 2005

Qatar: Friends of Al-Jazeera Hacked

The Friends of Al-Jazeera website was defaced by Brazilian hackers. Instead of the familiar news stories, the site was replaced by a simple message – “SpyKids of Brazil”. As no...

16 September 2005