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29 December 2005

Stories from 29 December 2005

Latin America: Day of the “Innocents”

Mariano Amartino has a summary of blogs “celebrating” El Dia de los Inocentes – the Spanish speaking world's version of April Fool's Day. As such, Definitely Maybe announced that Google...

Written by David Sasaki
30 December 2005

Mexico: Mexican Community Medicine

Enrico, a medical student in Guadalajara who grew up in Texas, has an excellent four part series (1, 2, 3, 4) on Mexican community medicine and how it compares to...

Written by David Sasaki
30 December 2005

Haiti: Jean-Juste Has Cancer

Commenting on a Miami Herald article which revealed that imprisoned Haitian priest, Gerard Jean-Juste has leukemia, Boz opines that “the Haitian government should allow Jean-Juste to travel to the US...

Written by David Sasaki
30 December 2005

Syria: President

Ammar says that syrian president still can’t make up his mind as to how he wants the world to see him.

Written by Haitham Sabbah
29 December 2005

Iran: United Kurdish Front

According to Paiz, Nederlands based Iranian, former Sanadaj deputy in Iranian Parliament, Mr.Adib, announced the creation of United Kurdish Front. Everybody can become a member and achieving justice and equality...

Written by Fred Petrossian
29 December 2005

Saudi Arabia: Religious impact

Sabbah chronicles the social progress of Saudi women in the last year, and considers it a blow against Islamic terrorism. A woman won election to a seat on the “engineer's...

Written by Haitham Sabbah
29 December 2005

Sub-Saharan Africa: Blog Quiz

What do you know about Africa? About African bloggers? Find out with the 2005 BlogAfrica/Global Voices African blog quiz! If your score is 60% or below, make a New Years’...

Written by Ethan Zuckerman
29 December 2005

China: Jailed Journalists

the leaky pen writes about three journalists now languishing in Chinese jails: Singapore's Ching Cheong, researcher Zhao Yan of the New York Times and local reporter Shi Tao.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
29 December 2005

Indonesia: Economists’ Blog

Cafe Salemba is a group blog written by Indonesian economists, one in Jakarta and three studying in the U.S. Recently, they've been writing about subsidies: for education and for art.

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
29 December 2005

Thailand: Bilingual Posting

Fringer has announced he will be no longer writing as often in English as in Thai: “it is almost impossible to write in different languages without switching between two different...

Written by Jose Manuel Tesoro
29 December 2005

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