3 May 2006

Stories from 3 May 2006

Haiti: Kevin Sites Sighting

Yon Ayisyen, the only Haiti-based Haitian blogger writes (FR): “When I noticed that [Yahoo war correspondent] Kevin Sites was in Colombia, I understood right away that he wasn't too far....

4 May 2006

Uruguay, Venezuela: Criticizing Mercosur

Steven Taylor writes about Uruguay's discontent with the South American trade bloc Mercorsur. Miguel Octavio (and his faithful readers) try to make sense of Latin America's recent economic realignment.

4 May 2006

Armenian Blogs on the Armavia Crash

An Airbus A320 flown by the Armenian airline Armavia crashed into the Black Sea, killing all 113 passengers and crew onboard–the worst air crash in Armenia's history. In early reaction...

4 May 2006

Kyrgyzstan: Constitutional Reform

Kyrgyzstan's president has set a date for drafts of a new constitution to be finished. Matt Jay discusses this news, saying that it is obviously a reaction to the recent...

4 May 2006

Uzbekistan: NGO Expulsions

With Counterpart International looking to be the latest victim of Uzbekistan's spree of NGO closures, Elizabeth explains the various reasons by which Uzbekistan justifies the expulsions.

4 May 2006

China: Churches compete for Christians

The EastSouthWestNorth blogger does a non-random sample analysis of several blogs’ Google PageRanks and comes up with a completely unreliable conclusion. Further down is the final translation of a very...

3 May 2006

China: Music tour tips

In ‘One Country, Two Rock Scenes‘, Holidarity‘s Friend Gram reveals a mainland China rock star trick of the trade.

3 May 2006

China: Cantonese opera

Supernaut Frances D'Ath and her non-demonic friends gear up for Apocalypse Guangzhou later this month in ‘Canton Opera Madness.’

3 May 2006

Hong Kong: Zheng He exhibition

sevenyearsinchina‘s Han Girl visits the Zheng He exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History and comes away flipping Eurocentrism on its head. “What can one expect? We're talking about...

3 May 2006

Hong Kong: A Communist pod-dream

It didn't take long for Dave and Stefan at Hong Kong's Blog the Talk to get around to podcasting and their most recent release “a meditation on pedestrian behavior, individualism...

3 May 2006

China: Catholics, coal, chemicals

China Confidential‘s Confidential Reporter gives a second look at rapidly-deteriorating relations between the Communists in Beijing and the Catholics in the Vatican, preceded with one long dire post: at least...

3 May 2006