14 October 2005

Stories from 14 October 2005

Armenia: Fashion

Blogrel comments on young women's fashion in Armenia. Is there a correlation between skirt length and economic success?

15 October 2005

Hungary: Soft Serv Defense

Despite years of criticism from NATO for failing to meet its defense commitments, Hungary's Army has found room in its budget for soft serve ice cream machines for its fighter...

15 October 2005

From the Caribbean Blogosphere

Some snippets from this week's conversations in the anglophone Caribbean blogosphere: Aruba Lost in Smallness is resigned to the inevitable rise in gas prices after the recent parliamentary election. Bahamas...

14 October 2005

Morocco: Migrants suffer in Morocco

Saad of The World from Rabat quotes an eyewitness who reports the sufferance of migrants in Morocco. On the other hand, Human Rights Watch News Releases, (Middle East and Northern...

14 October 2005

Palestine: Wall Kills Human Values

umkahlil quoting Saed Banoura who reports: ‘Wall Kills Human Values’ is the new slogan which the weekly procession against the Separation Wall in Bil’in village, west of Ramallah, carried on...

14 October 2005

Indonesia: International Muslims

Jakartass writes about being a Westerner who converted to Islam to marry his wife, and posts an e-mail he received about a charity drive at Ramadan from the Jakarta International...

14 October 2005

Vietnam: Foreign-backed J-programs

Vietnam Journalism notes the rapid proliferation in recent years of journalism training programs backed by foreign institutions, but laments that “a number of participants of these courses just go to...

14 October 2005

Indonesia: Why blog?

Must be something in the blogowaters. A. Fatih Syuhud, an Indonesian student based in India, is also moved to share his blogger's philosophy.

14 October 2005

China: Trust no-one

ESWN shares his philosophy of blogging, China reporting and critical thinking, saying that no-one gets a monopoly on the ‘truth’, whatever their credentials, especially where this ‘thing’ called China is...

14 October 2005

Saudi Arabia: Imagine Being a Woman

Farah continues her war for woman's rights in Saudi. She translated an Arabic article by a Saudi female columnists Badria Al Bisher, titled “Imagine Being a Woman..”. She dedicate this...

14 October 2005

South Africa: AIDS quackery

commentary.co.za reports on revelations that a couple of AIDS patients apparently thriving on a patent medicine issued by the “Rath foundation”, were in fact taking anti-retroviral medication all the time.

14 October 2005

Syria: Bashar on CNN

If you missed President Bashar al-Assad Wednesday morning comprehensive speech to the US CNN TV station. The following is the full story of the interview.

14 October 2005