Stories from 10 March 2006
Singapore: Anti-Singapore Sentiment?
Zuco reacts to news of anti-Singapore demonstrations in Thailand and Australian hostility to permitting Singapore Airlines to fly from Sydney to L.A. He writes: “Very soon, we might have to ask “that” American question: “Why do they hate us so?””
Vietnam: Departures
Six Months in Hanoi bids an emotional farewell to Vietnam. “My experience of leaving Hanoi was of suddenly seeing the loss of a whole community. I know I will return, but I will never regain that world.” It took him a week before he could write about it.
Iran: Street & Nuclear
View from Iran, an Iran based blogger, talks about Iranian public opinion about nuclear issues. Blogger says “Why do Iranians mistrust everything the government tells them, but trust their spin when it comes to the nuclear issue?” We were wondering last night. If you have followed the nuclear issue at...
Mexico: Making Noise About Juarez
Jennifer Woodard Maderazo wants to see something done about the many unsolved homicides of young women in the border town of Juarez, Mexico.
The Week That Was in Bahrain..
While Haitham Sabbah's pledge to add Palestine to Blogger, Yahoo and MSN has met with huge success, Mahmood continues to battle the demons with Mullas against a new Personal Law in Bahrain!
Anglo-Venezuelan Blogosphere Conspiracy
Este post también está disponible en español. Peace Journalism brought to us this week a post about the political polarization on the Internet and citizen-information Venezuelan blogs. Relentlessly optimistic the young journalist says: thanks to the majority being prone toward dialogue, bigger and better spaces for tolerance, inclusion, or at...
Iran: Bolton!
Mr.Behi, an Iran based blogger, writes about Iranian nukes and American ambassador in the United Nations. Blogger says I am not sure if the nucks are the real issue just like the case of WMD of Iraq. I am getting ready for Bolton to take a toothpaste tube from his...
North Korea: Who are you calling a threat?
OhmyNews! hosts a forum discussion between Robert Einhorn, advisor to the International Security Program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy think tank, and Peter Beck, Northeast Asia Project Director for the International Crisis Group, on the bogey men being used by various parties...
China: Petitioning parliament
“The wife of and daughter of imprisoned labor activist Yao Fuxin have gone to Beijing to petition delegates of the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on during their annual sessions,” reports Human Rights in China. Yao is in poor health, and his family...
China: Urbling memorabilia
Shenzhen Ren reminds us of the mass mobilization of young intellectuals to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), and of Stefan Landsberger's excellent online collection of CR posters and memorabilia.
China: Risk assessment
The Opposite End of China comments on a recent political risk assessment report produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which rates conflict between China's haves and have-nots as the most likely contributing factor to political instability in China.
Guyana, Trinidad: Islam in the Caribbean
Guyanese Muslim blogger Qays’ defends the use of the word “sainthood” in the context of Islam, sparking a dialogue in the comments thread about manifestations of Islam in Guyana and Trinidad.
China: Human-rights shoot-out
“I am glad to have the Chinese government join me in condemning many things that I have over the years contributed money, signed petitions, and cast my vote in order to defeat,” writes Chinese Law Prof. “But its report is more a schoolyard nyah-nyah than a real response to criticism...
China: Kitten mea culpa
“After this affair, I have undertaken a deep self-reflection, how I debased myself for a little flyspeck of profit,” wrote Web movie producer Li Yuejun in a Chinese newspaper regarding videos and photos of a woman crushing a kitten and other small animals. “I have hurt far too many people,...
India: Food Labels
Food Labels get a Hindu group a little angry. Kellogs at the receiving end says Pickled Politics.
Nepal: Human rights
Bahas has a roundup on the human rights situation in Nepal.
Sri Lanka: The bumper crop
A bumper paddy crop in Sri Lanka may pose marketing problems for farmers – at Janapathi Blog.
Pakistan: The choices
Azad Forever captures some of the nuances of the recent controversies to hit Muslims – “ Muslims, as social and conscious human beings should also denounce cowardly acts committed by Muslims, like killing innocence people, just like how Muslims condemn some stupid Danish cartoons against their symbol of faith.”
Nigeria: Literature reading
Molara Wood will be appearing in Oxford tomorrow…” Afam Akeh, Nnorom Azuonye and myself will form a quartet with Chuma Nwokolo Jr at the event.”
South Africa: Sanitation Week
This week is santation week in South Africa and the government has promised to eradicate bucket toilet systems by the year 2007. African Houseit “”We have set targets especially on bucket system and we are saying that by 2007 we would have eradicated all the buckets that we have in...
Nigeria: 3rd term for Presidents
Grandiose Parlor comments on the attempts by sections of the Nigerian public who support the President's wish to run for a third term.
