23 September 2005

Stories from 23 September 2005

Rising Gasoline Prices

Charles Ganske of the Russia Blog reports that just like in the United States, rising gasoline prices are a big issue in Russia at the moment.

24 September 2005

Scrambling for Votes

the beatroot discusses how one of Poland's right-wing parties is scrambling for votes at the last minute before this Sunday's election.

24 September 2005

Slovenia's 10th Referendum

Slovenes go to the polls this weekend to vote in their tenth referendum since independence. This referendum concerns the future of Slovenia's national broadcaster, RTVS. The Glory of Carniola discusses...

24 September 2005

Yurts

The Golden Road to Samarqand discusses Kyrgyz yurts and poetry about them.

24 September 2005

Dispatches from the Yerevan Rock Scene

Onnik Krikorian continues his stellar coverage of the Armenian rock scene with an alert that MDP will be making a rare Armenia appearance soon and points to more information on...

24 September 2005

China: Guangdong sweatshops

China Herald highlights Chinese media reports that the Guangdong provincial authorities have compiled a blacklist of 20 sweatshops which force workers into excessive unpaid overtime, underpay workers or use child...

23 September 2005

Hong Kong: Deconstructing Disney

Walk the Talk reports on a lecture given by Asian Wall Street Journal reporter and Harvard-trained anthropologist Geoffrey Fowler in Hong Kong on how the mainland Chinese consumer is reinventing...

23 September 2005

Taiwan: Media watch

Taiwan Tiger takes a look at the different sorts of spin in mainstream media reporting, notably in mainland China and the United States.

23 September 2005

Nigeria: Sex or prayer?

trae_z at Trae Days blogs about losing his religion, though not his sense of God, and his scepticism about deifying human beings, though not about miracles.

23 September 2005

Township Sessions: CD review

Afromusing reviews the forthcoming release of “Township Sessions”, a CD released from an old cassette recording by the South African Philani Mothers Choir.

23 September 2005

Sudan: Medair chopper service

The Passion of the Present reports that the roads in West Darfur have become so dangerous that Switzerland-based medical aid NGO Medair has started helicopter flights to reach affected areas....

23 September 2005

Zimbabwe: Farm manager beaten

Zimpundit rails against the beating by a gang of armed men of white farm manager Allan Warner, quoting Martin Luther King Jr.: “Are we any better than they are if...

23 September 2005