Stories from 11 April 2006
Guatemala: Film Review
Blog de Esquipulas has an intriguing review (ES) of the movie Fronteras Sangrientas, which was filmed in rural Guatemala.
Early European trader in Bali
Nick at baliblog writes about a Danish trader in the 1800s who helped put Bali on the trading map.
No interest in local music
Conspiracypenguins lament on the lack of interest in local music in Singapore.
Honduras, El Salvador: The Soccer Wars of 1969
“On July 14, 1969, Honduras and El Salvador went to war. The 100 hour war took 6000 lives, 12,000 were wounded, and 50,000 people rendered homeless The cause was ostensibly...
Computer features in real life
Malaysian blogger Kenny Sia wishes for some computer features to be made available in real life.
Travelling in rural Laos
Scruffydan is travelling through Laos and he encounters the rural life and a river that flows through a 7.5 km cave.
Why intellectual politicians loose out
Indonesian blogger A. Fatih Syuhud analyzes why intellectual politicians loose out to the “stupid ones” in elections.
Sri Lanka: Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation is an ongoing process in Sri Lanka. Sarvodaya on a project in which “Thirty houses in Galle district were ceremonially handed over to Tsunami-affected families in the villages of...
Texting and bad spellings
Leodini, a Filipino magician and blogger complains about the increase in misspellings because of text messaging.
India: More on reservations
River's Blue Elephants reflects on personal experiences as someone who has handled admissions process in a college to talk about the reservations issue in the Indian Education System.
Nepal: Roles neighbours play
What role does India have to play as Nepal burns even after the strike at Nepali Netbook -“How can the world’s most populous democracy sit by and watch the palace...
Under Pressure Journalists & Nuclear Crisis
Saminejad’s, jailed blogger, lawyer said court rejected their appeal and he is supposed to remain in prison for next ten months. ISNA, Iranian Students National Agency, has published this news...
Iran: Journalists Fired!
Alpar (Persian), Iran based blogger, has informed us that many journalists who work for ILNA ( Iran Labour News Agency) have been fired. It seems that there is no budget....
Caribbean: On mangoes
“I'm standing under the cool dark shade of my julie mango tree looking for my breakfast,” writes Attillah at The Pan Collective in her paean to one of the Caribbean's...
Belize: Oil
Simone Elgeln gives an update on Belize's recent oil discovery and the efforts being made by the company which made the find to act the responsible corporate citizen: “The government...
Trinidad & Tobago: World Cup suggestions & a comic book
Stacy-Marie Ishmael of the Trinidad & Tobago World Cup Blog posts her answers to the question of how the World Cup can be improved. She also reports that a comic...
Mexico: Encordados
León Felipe Sánchez introduces the Mexican rock band Encordados whose latest album is licensed under Creative Commons and freely available for download.
Panama: Article on Blogging
Jorge Yau points to (ES) an article (ES) in the newspaper Panamá América about Panamanian blogs including Melissa de León's CookingDiva and the popular tech blog for women, TechnoChica.
China: Tiananmen update
Writing from her blog T-Salon, Andrea mentions an upcoming television program which will look at the identity of ‘the Tank Man'—known to many as the Tiananmen square protestor who stood...
China: Plagiarism in state-owned media
An previously well-respected and outspoken Chinese newspaper which was taken over by the government earlier this year has since resorted to copying stories from other publications, says Non-violent Resistance blogger...
Taiwan: Cross-straits relations
Rank Beginner of the Taiwan-based blog Rank pre-empts Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan's visit to China scheduled for Thursday with a look at recent China-Taiwan diplomatic talks and the prediction of...
