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17 October 2005

Stories from 17 October 2005

Kazakhstan: Renationalizing Oil

Tim Newman reports that, driven by current high prices, Russia and Kazakhstan are pursuing effective renationalization of their oil industries.

Written by Nathan Hamm
18 October 2005

Images from Japan: Oko

“Oko” by MC MasterChef A small grill/noodle shop in Oko, a small town near Hiroshima. Note that most of the counter space is actually a cooking surface.

Written by Paul Frankenstein
18 October 2005

Guatemala: Survivor Guatemala after Stan

Rob Mercatante and company get CBS to shape up their “Guatemala Relief” web page. Chapinadas weighs the pros and cons of Survivor's impact on Guatemala and all about E explains...

Written by David Sasaki
17 October 2005

Argengina: Expocomm Argentina

Fernando Cassia was at Expocomm Argentina and finds it ironic that Argentina is implementing WIMAX internet access before the United States.

Written by David Sasaki
17 October 2005

ArabiskBlog: Blogging Beyond Borders

Just came across a new Arabic ‘Blog-to-Media’ project, which is still on beta. It's called ArabiskBlog. What they do is quite interesting. On weekly bases they publish a PDF Magazine...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
17 October 2005

Yezzi on Al Jazeera TV

Here is the link to the transcript (Arabic) of Arab TV Al Jazeera program about www.yezzi.org. The title of the program was “What's behind this news: Tunisians are protesting on...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
17 October 2005

China: Fons on Guardian Beating

On his blog China Herald, Fons Tuinstra explains his fence-sitting position in the increasingly acrimonious debate over the beating of Lu Banglie for bringing Guardian correspondent Benjamin Joffe-Walt to Taishi.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
17 October 2005

Philippines: Finding One's Niche

Noting Retzwerx‘s high traffic on the back of his coverage of Pinoy Big Brother, technology news blog Ambot ah! muses on “focus blogs” and asks his readers to share how...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
17 October 2005

Singapore: Podcast Directory

Beng of Born on Ninth of August has started a Singapore podcasting directory: Podcasting Under the Stars and Moon. He also prods a friend to make one. The result: A...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
17 October 2005

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