Stories from 10 January 2006
Ukraine: Frustrated
Ukraine's government has been sacked now that details of the deal have emerged. Veronica Khokhlova is frustrated with politics in Ukraine.
Turkmenistan: Coverup
neweurasia reports that Turkmenistan's government is worried about bird flu, but that it is suppressing information about it.
Kazakhstan: Oiled Inauguration
Kazakhstan's president will be inaugurated for a new seven year term soon and plenty of world leaders will be on hand. neweurasia reports that by the end of the festivities, President Nazarbaev will have heard plenty about oil.
Slovenia: Kranjska Gora
The Glory of Carniola reports on more of the all too common confusion that strikes the press when it tries to locate Slovenia on a map.
Armenia: Homophobia
At Cilicia, Alex writes that if Armenians’ aspirations to join the West are to be realized, regressive attitudes must be overcome.
Kazakhstan: Gucci Revolution Revisited
Ataman of neweurasia says that Kazakhstan tries to flaunt its success to be taken seriously by the rest of the world and that the faultlines in the country are between those who have benefited under the president and those who haven't.
Colombia: Rural Wi-Fi; Family
John Guzman links to an article about a large-scale broadband rural access project in Colombia on Proyecto Colombia, while he compares family structure between Colombia and the U.S.A. on his personal blog.
India: US and Saudi Arabia
India: US and Saudi Arabia
India: Highways
India: Highways
Brazil: “Political Correctness Threatens Democracy”
Luís Afonso Assumpção says that “the “politically correct” can be defined as a type of ‘ wishful-thinking'” which is harmful to Brazilian democracy. The essay is also available in Portuguese.
Sri Lanka: Girls and Stereotypes
Sri Lanka: Girls and Stereotypes
Bangladesh: Eid and Animals
Bangladesh: Eid and Animals
Nepal: Drug Testing
Nepal: Drug Testing
Petition For Political Prisoners & Air Plane Crash!
Several Iranian bloggers have signed a petition (a letter) in which they asked freedom for political prisoner in Karaj Rejai Shahr Prison. Amnesty international, Red Cross and other humanitarian organisations have been asked to send delegations to this prison. We read in this petition: “On the eighth week of the...
Israel: The Tenth of Tevet
While Muslims celebrate today the first day of Eid ul-Adha, Imshin says that observant Jews fast today in memory of Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon's two and a half year siege on Jerusalem, which commenced 2594 years ago today.
Iraq: The Sunni ignore Zarqawi
Omar of Iraq The Model says that two developments took most of the interest in Iraq's political scene yesterday. The first is the latest audio tape of Zarqawi in which he urged the Iraqi Sunni parties especially the Islamic Party to abandon the political process and go back to the...
Educational Bridges through Blogs
Blogs entering the field of education empower schoolteachers, who are separated by the geography of Chile, to communicate with each other in ways that previously were not so accessible. The blog “Educandonos” (ES) seeks to give schoolteachers a different, participative view of education. The purpose is to use blogs as...
Nigeria: Gbenga interview
Grandiose Parlor writes about the recent interview of President Obasanjo's son Gbenga Obasanjo that has “ruffled some feathers in Nigeria's political circles.
South Africa: Iraqi comment
South African blog The Front Line comments on a story on “Muslim scholars being paid to aid US propaganda”……”Does Democracy need to be established and maintained by Propaganda and War? Just recently we heard about the US take-over of Iraqi print media to spread propaganda and now we got the...
Ethiopia: Poverty as Cheetas feed
Nazret.com reports that in the midst of Ethiopia's poverty, two cheetahs that were rescued by Ethiopian veterinarian and U.S. counterterrorism soldiers, are now living comfortably in the grounds of the official residence of Ethiopia's president. One commenter writes “Has anyone seen the Irony here, Cheetah's live in the palace after...
