13 December 2005

Stories from 13 December 2005

Hong Kong, South Korea: Protest Blog

Looking forward to the usual WTO demonstrations? Here's a new blog (in Korean and English) by Korean-Americans documenting and accompanying Korean farmers’ protests at the trade meet in Hong Kong.

13 December 2005

Philippines, Singapore: Blog Race

theory.isthereason follows the race between Singapore's sexy celeblogger Xiaxue and not-as-sexy Mr. Brown for the title of Best Asian Blog: “While such blog awards help us recognize the most popular...

13 December 2005

El Salvador: Who do Salvadorans trust?

Tim's El Salvador Blog looks at a recent study by the University of Central America, which asked participants where they placed their confidence. Churches and political parties were far apart.

13 December 2005

Vietnam: Hair Ban

At the Saigon-based art blog diacritic.org, a post bemoaning the year-and-a-half-old law from Vietnam's Ministry of Culture prohibiting radical hairstyles.

13 December 2005

Russia: The Revolving Door

Scraps of Moscow reports on the revolving Russo-German door–in which Gerhard Schroeder has taken a position with a major (Russia's) Gazprom-led gas pipeline project shortly after leaving office.

13 December 2005

Russia: Volgas

Carpetblogger reports the demise of a beloved (well, by some people anyway) Russian automobile, the Volga.

13 December 2005

South Africa

South Africa provides some “food for thought” on South African media.…Four major newspaper groups – Independent Newspapers, Johnnic Communications, Naspers and CTP/Caxton, dominate the South African print media market.

13 December 2005

South Africa: Spying in Zimbabwe

The Fish Bowl reports on the arrest of a South African spy for running an espionage ring in Zimbabwe! ciommenting “If that's the only thing we, and the people of...

13 December 2005

Kenya: personal reflections

Feminist African Sister publishes some personal reflections on her life at present…….My body has shut down, essntially saying that this December the brain and soul are on their own. My...

13 December 2005

Nigeria: Housing sell off

Chippla's Weblog voices his disgust at the latest privatisation of the housing sector in Nigeria…..”Welcome to the Nigeria of the future where the government will continue to sell off its...

13 December 2005

Kenya: Poetry

ThinkersRoom gets into some melancholy poetry…. “The Rain of Tears“….

13 December 2005

Kenya: Book reviews

African Bullets & Honey posts some critical reviews of “Okri, Naipaul and Arundhati” by one John Dolan and basks in his (Dolan's) particularly unpleasant bushwaking of the three writers..

13 December 2005