Stories from 19 October 2005
Bangladesh: How corrupt?
Bangladesh: How corrupt?
Southern Africa social forum
The 3rd and final day of the Southern African Social Forum, held in Harare, dealt with the crisis in Zimbabwe. “Briggs Bomba, a representative of the parallel Uhuru Youth Forum of the SASF, said that Zimbabwe faces its worst economic crisis ever. The hospitals are no longer hospitals but ‘death...
Representative Heuristic in race
Kenyan Diasporan blogger, Curious, discusses “the representative heuristic”. For example, the representative heuristic (Wikipedia) would be like this: “after a report in the media that, for example, black people are x times more likely to commit gun crime (hypothetically), or that muslims are x times more likely to suicide bomb...
Pakistan: Relief Agencies
Pakistan: Relief Agencies
India: Microfinance
India: Microfinance
Pakistan: Aid from the enemy
Pakistan: Aid from the enemy
Loss of life in Lesotho
Lesotho blogger Sotho puts the human disaster of Katrina, where it is estimated that 700 people died, in the context of a “3rd world” country like Lesotho where loss of human life will be 300 times greater than in the US of the coming years due not to natural disaster...
Kenyan Photo Essay
Kenyan blogger Kipepeo points us to some great photos of Kenya courtesy of Christoph-Grandt.com
Aid for Darfur
Aid worker “Sleepless in Sudan” responds to those who have accused her of “”blogging to much on “the problems of Darfur and the mistakes people are making – and not offering any bright solutions myself”. One solution she sights is for the Canadian armoured personnel carriers stuck in a warehouse...
Mob rule in Nigeria
Nigerian blogger “Jangbalajugbu-Homeland Stories” has a horrific story showing the brutality of mob rule. An 11 year old boy Samuel is burnt to death after he is suspected of attempting to steal a baby.
Radio Sud FM
Black Star Journal reports on the shutting down of Senegal's most popular radio station, Sud FM by the Senegalese government.
Indonesia: More Babies
To shoulder Indonesia's debt burden, tedy at tedsta.com makes the Swiftian suggestion that Indonesians ought to have more babies.
China: Guardian Explains, Others Respond
asiapundit rounds up the skeptical reactions to the Guardian‘s explanation that reporter Benjamin Joffe-Walt's exaggerated description of Lu Banglie's injuries at Taishi was caused by temporary insanity. Bingfeng Teahouse helpfully classifies who's on what side of the Taishi affair, and Fons reflects on the end of the foreign correspondent.
Japan: Yasukuni Visit
Yaw and Mog passed by the Yasukuni Shrine during PM Junichiro Koizumi's visit on the anniversary of the interment of fourteen war criminals there and asks what Japan gains by provoking its neighbors. Says vincentvds of Achikochi: “Japanese prime ministers should stay away from Yasukuni.”
Philippines: Need Another Hero
Torn and Frayed in Manila parses the supposed national yearning for another hero.
Vietnam: Indians in Hanoi
No Star Where‘s search for traces of the Indian community in Vietnam leads to a discovery that poet Rabindranath Tagore had once visited Saigon.
Images from Bangladesh: Village pond
A typical pond in rural Bangladesh with lush greenary surroundings. The floating algae denotes that the pond is less frequently used.
Travels in the Kurdish Blogosphere
According to preliminary results the Iraqi Constitution Referendum has passed with a “yes” vote. And while the world waits for the official results, Iraqi Kurds and Kurds in general have been very active as to their opinions of the proceedings. Dr Nazhad Khasraw Hawramany of Iraqi Kurdistan gives a congratulatory...
Chile's Presidential Blog Forum
此篇文章有繁體中文的翻譯” While all of South America has been experiencing an exponential growth of weblogs, podcasts, and other online methods of civic participation, no country has done more to institutionalize the new tools into its political process than Chile. The ruling class’ embrace of online media as a way to encourage...
