Stories from 20 September 2005
Latin America: Technochica Joins Hipertextual
Technochica has joined Eduardo Arcos‘ ever expanding blog empire, Hipertextual.
A Democracy Guy
Democracy Guy, Tim Russo, highlights another democracy guy at work in Armenia.
Nigeria: Class war
A silent war is being waged, writes Chippla, between the Nigerian working classes who sit and listen to fire and brimstone sermons in the country's many houses of worship, and the ruling class who live it up overseas only to be arrested for money-laundering.
Uganda: Stretching a point
African Update lauds a report in the U.S. media asking what happened to the condoms in the Ugandan government's anti-HIV/AIDS strategy, but thinks that this may be one thing that can't be blamed on the Bush administration.
Sudan: Give a woman a bicycle
Sleepless in Sudan gets caught up in a gender-skewed debate about the use of bicycles in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp where she works.
Honduras: Fighting Against Tuberculosis
Honduras Last Week explains Honduras’ fight against Tuberculosis.
Guatemala: Thoughts On Survivor
Chapinadas has two new posts on how Survivor portrays Guatemala.
Uganda: Atrocities continue
“The Ugandan military and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army continue to kill, rape and uproot civilians in northern Uganda with brazen impunity,” says a recent report from Human Rights Watch.
Zimbabwe: Post-dramatic stress syndrome
Zimpundit deconstructs his country's political drama (“the drama that is no longer a drama”), President Robert Mugabe's visit to the United Nations, and consequently his own political commentary.
Venezuela, Colombia: Chavez and Uribe in the U.S.
Venezuelan-American, Alexdra Beech has written her impressions of both Hugo Chavez and Alvaro Uribe's recent visits to the United States.
China: What's on wiki
Hailey Xie has set up a wiki for people to add their knowledge of forthcoming events around China.
El Salvador: Underwear Battle With China
Tim's El Salvador Blog coversEl Salvador's battle with China in cotton underwear exports to the US.
Hong Kong: My territory for a horse
Will Hong Kong's hosting of the 2008 Olympic equestrian events get the territory's racing-obsessed residents out jogging the MacLehose Trail? Hemlock doesn't think so…
Philippines: Spooky tales
The Sassy Laywer's Journal reports that six members of the U.S. House of Representatives have called for an enquiry into the activities of the CIA in the Philippines.
Burma: The coasts of Titan
Myanmar blogger Kyaw Oo is taken with newly beamed images of Titan, one of the moons of Jupiter, complete with coastlines, rain and river systems, and seas of liquid methane.
China: Panyu protest
EastSouthWestNorth posts a long essay about why the land dispute and re-election of the village committee in the Guangdong village of Taishi is worth taking the trouble to follow.
Kuwait Roundup
Just a little introduction to the Kuwait Blogosphere, we have about 277 blogs listed on KuwaitBlogs.com and most of them are being aggregated on Safat.KuwaitBlogs.com. We have a mixed group of bloggers that are Kuwait are in and out of Kuwait, as well as people form other countries that live...
London Walk for Belarus
Volodymyr Campaign announces plans for a London walk in support of democracy in Belarus.
Corruption in Georgian & Armenian Healthcare and Penal Systems
Oneworld Multimedia discusses corruption in the Georgian and Armenian health and penal systems.
Shirin Akiner's Controversial Andijon Report
Laurence of Registan.net has written an account of Dr. Shirin Akiner's defense of her controversial report on the Andijon massacre that has prompted many interesting comments.
Turkey “Teaching” Azeris to Pay Their Bills
Katy of Blogrel takes issue with an unfortunately framed story about the troubles faced by a Turkish electricity company trying to collect on bills from its Azeri customers.
