Stories from 25 January 2006
Nigeria: Human Rights
Jeremy of Naijablog has a number of posts on homosexuality in Nigeria and publishes a section from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which would make the proposed law banning homosexuality and campagining on the issue illegal.
Kenya: Corruption just in Africa
Kikuyumoja uses metaphor to highlight the fact that corruption is not just in Africa……”The conformity between both cultures, and hence the point where the story becomes interesting, is that people are eating meat in both countries and having their share of corrupt politicians while in the end of the day,...
Kenya: Tolerance and religion
African Eye asks some questions about tolerance and what he calls “bullet proof beliefs”…..What's the point of saying we believe in a religion/faith that preaches love, tolerance, kindness if we are then consistently dismissive of and inconsiderate to others? What's the point? There does not even appear to be any...
Sudan: Darfur Action Alerts
The Passion of the Present announces three different Action items on Darfur and Sudan, all in February which is a month of action.
Ethiopia: Expelled journalist
Meskel Square points to a report by Reporters Without Borders on the British jounalist expelled from Ethiopia, Anthony Mitchell.
Nigeria: Reviewing Daniel Pink
Jangbalajugbu-Homeland Stories is reading “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink. He shares his thoughts on the book and on “abundance”…..Though he acknowledged that “Offcourse, material wealth hasn’t reached everyone in the developed world, not to metion the vast numbers in the less developed world. But abundance has freed literarilly...
Iran: BBC & Abtahi
Abtahi (Persian), cleric blogger and former vice president, says filtering BBC is a weird action, because people get information from BBC radio broadcasting. He adds filtering political sites is similar to censorship in North Korea or Saddam's Iraq, where people even can not listen to non governmental radios.
Africa: Masks
007 in Africa introduces us to Bruce the mask seller…”He used to work for the Art Museum that shut down during civil strifes, roaming the country far and wide to find nice antique pieces for display. All the art pieces have now been locked in storage, occsionally plundered by various...
Indonesia: Meaning of Peace
I'm Your Huckleberry describes what “peace” means in the restive Indonesian region of Aceh: 24-hour city transportation (so no more curfews), people returning to work the paddies and coffeeshops open again until late at night.
China: Relative Censorship
Matthew Stinson explains how media censorship in China is uneven, using the example of a provincial TV reporter, censored by his bosses, who put up his story as a videoblog, which then got picked up by a Shanghai network that ended up broadcasting its own story based on it.
China: New Year's Resolution
Bingfeng Teahouse has a New Year's resolution he hopes his countrymen will adopt: have a set of personal chopsticks so that he can stop using disposable wooden ones. China cuts down as many as 25 million trees to produce and export disposable chopsticks.
Cambodia: Photographer of the Dead
Macam-macam writes about Nhem En, the Khmer Rouge photographer who documented the inmates at Cambodia's infamous Tuol Sleng prison.
Football and media's trial in the Moroccan blogs
January 12th is Yennayer, the Amazigh New Year . So I'll start by wishing Amazighs all around the world a happy Yenayer 2956! Last week was a sportive one in the Moroccan blogs. And most of the bloggers encouraged the Moroccan football team playing in the African Cup of Nations...
Malaysia, India, China: Why India is Number One
Yasmin the Storyteller from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia meets two Chinese steel men in Mumbai, and engages them in a revealing discussion about which is better – India or China? She explains her answer.
Guyana: Americas II cable breakdown
Both MediaCritic and Guyana-Gyal are temporarily deprived of internet access due to the breakdown of the Americas II fiber optic submarine communications cable.
Guyana: Diaspora blog
“It is estimated that there are as many Guyanese living overseas as they are in Guyana,” goes the headline of the Guyana Diaspora blog, which launched on January 23. Among those profiled to date have been a Toronto-based cookbook writer, a US-based women's soccer coach, a US Army Staff Sargeant...
Guyana: Telemarketing & Guyanese blogging
Monologist speculates on the shape the new Guyanese telemarketing industry is likely to take, given the country's cultural peculiarities. But she resists being thought of as a “Guyanese blogger”.
Barbados: Opposition breakdown
The former leader of Barbados’ opposition party crosses the floor, compelling Titlayo to blog about politics for a change.
Bahamas: Political psychology
“Politics in the Bahamas continues to be attractive to precisely the wrong kinds of people partly on account of the aggressive displays of power that it involves,” writes Andrew Allen in his analysis of Bahamian political psychology, probably striking a chord with the citizens of many a nation.
Google.cn in China
Google, the online web search giant, launched its Chinese version of services with new domain, Google.cn. Formerly this domain would be redirected to http://www.google.com/ig?hl=zh-CN, a Chinese version of Google Search based in US. This services, according to various sources(1,2,3), has censored many content and websites in comply with Chinese government...
Kyrgyzstan: Probing NGOs
Registan.net reports that Kyrgyzstan is pressuring its large NGO community and asks whether or not the new government is trying to protect itself from what it might perceive as a source of power that contributed to the fall of the last president.
