Stories from 17 May 2006
Reunion: Slideshow
Reunion Passion posts (Fr) pictures of the Port of St-Gilles (2 photos), the beach at Boucan Canot and some palm trees.
India: The Da Whatever Code
The Indian Government decides to delay the release of the movie – The Da Vinci Code, and the blogosphere has had quite a reaction to the issue. Falstaff on having to defend a piece of work that may not be worth it.
Mexico: Artists From Tijuana
Nathan Gibbs recommends to readers that they check out the Flash-based website for the exhibition “Strange New World,” which focuses on artists from Tijuana, Mexico.
China: No lawyer for Hao Wu
Access to a lawyer shall not be granted to illegally-detained Beijing or Bust blogger Hao Wu, as seen in a post dated May 17 on his sister Nina's blog, in which she documents her increasingly desperate drive to see some justice handed down to her little brother Haozi, ongoing translations...
Iran: Women & Make UP
Salakhi Migerist writes some people say Iranian women use a lot of make up products! She adds but same people forget to say the only visible part of Iranian women are their faces and Iranian men just care about their beauty and nothing else (Persian).
Iran: Diplomacy & War
Rajabali Mazroi, reformist politician & blogger, says diplomacy is the best way to solve nuclear crisis. He writes that he does not agree with Iranian President's policy concerning nuclear issue. Blogger adds he believes USA and other big powers have not been on a right diplomatic path to negotiate with...
Brazil: “City of Rhyme”
Ethan Zuckerman tells the story of his college roommate, Kurt Shaw, who has been working with the group Pé no Chão (“Feet in the Dirt”) to help street kids express themselves through breakdancing, capoiera, grafitti, beats and MC’ing. The group has just released “City of Rhyme,” a compilation of “a...
Thailand: Boycotting Censored Movie
Andrew Biggs in Thailand boycotts the opening of the movie Da Vinci Code. The final 10 minutes of the movie is cut because of protests by Thai Christian groups. Andrew says “I don’t want to offend this group of well-meaning Thai Christians, but really, you have no right to be...
Indonesia: Unravelling Journalist's Murder
Paras Indonesia blog has a story on International press groups asking Indonesian authorities to find the culprits involved in the murder of a journalist. The journalist was investigating corruption allegations against officials in East Java.
Cambodia: Is the world getting Flat?
Kalyan in Cambodia is reading Thomas Freidman's “The World is Flat“. Kalyan is asking the visitors to her blog “Do you believe that the world is or is going to be flat?”
United Arab Emirates: Saturday's children
secretdubai says that finally the UAE gets a sensible weekend that isn't unmanageably out of sync with the rest of the developed world.
Lebanon: Chomsky's visit
lebanon.profile thinks that the American University of Beirut, the institution that paid for Chomsky's visit, should provide a more rounded view of the United States rather than present only the opinions of – what in the United States is deemed – the radical left.
Lebanon: The National Dialogue
Abu Kais sums the existing National Dialogue by saying; they hug, kiss and gently disagree.
Egypt: How the Egyptian police treats women?
Sandmonkey shares a video taken by a camera phone that shows how the Egyptian police interrogates females at a police station.
China: Textbook reform urged
As a pan-Asian consensus seems to have been reached on changes to a revisionist Japanese history textbook, a translation from Joel Martinsen at Danwei of historian Ye Yonglie's essay Textbook Problem suggests Chinese textbooks should be next.
Japan: Signs of nationalism?
Of prefect officials in Japan's Fukui city ordering one library to cease stocking a list of 150 books, Tokyo Times‘ Lee sees the move as “all in all a rather unsavoury affair, although as an isolated incident it’s hardly indicative of a return to ‘the bad old days.’ No, surely...
South Korea: Farmers protest military camp
unity at Days in Daechuri blog keeps up the coverage of villagers peacefully protesting the expansion of an American military base into their village, and the resulting state crackdown with the post ‘Environmental Testimony from Daechuri Villagers.’
Venezuela: Film Blogs
BlogaCine highlights the film ‘El Aprendiz’ by Jorge Hernández Aldana [ES], which will be shown at this year's Cannes film festival. Día Naranja, Días de Cine [ES] is a weblog by Venezuelan filmmaker Alejandra Szeplaki about the production of her first feature length film, “Día Naranja.
China: Canadian faces execution
“A program called Ultrareach is helping thousands of Chinese defy internet censorship every day,” writes Celia at China Activist Weekly, along with posts on disturbances in Tibet and the response to a letter written to the Canadian government regarding Canadian citizen Husein Celil currently in Uzbekistan “where he is being...
Argentina: Galbraith and Weinberg
Roberto Bobrow, accompanied by one of his ever-talented caricatures, describes the relationship between American economist John K. Galbraith and Argentine historian Gregorio Weinberg, both of whom passed away around the same time.
South Korea: Human rights campaign
Prior to tomorrow's kick-off to Project Sunshine—a two-week campaign for human rights for North Koreans—a documentary was screened and a mock funeral procession held in, says Joshua at The Korea Liberator, “what appears to be either Myongdong or Apkujeong, but in any event, one of Seoul’s tonier neighborhoods.” Photos included.
