Stories from 7 June 2006
HIV – Death by Diplomacy
Leading African HIV activists and other campaigners from around the world are anxious that previous gains made at the international level five years ago. Olivia Phiri, Zambian blogger at Real...
Romania: Homophobia and Gay Rights
Cristian of Owlspotting posts a candid reflection on homophobia and gay rights in Romania: “If “Will and Grace” was a Romanian sit-com, Will would either be spending a lot of...
Russia: “Manhandled. Insulted. Bitter. Disgusted.”
Jane Keeler of From Russia With Blog writes about getting assaulted by a drunk man in Vladimir; Brigid of Laughter in the Dark recounts her experience of being harrassed by...
Russia: “Asylums for Dissidence”
Sean Guillory discusses an LA Times article by Kim Murphy, which claims that “the Soviet practice of condemning the political dissident to mental asylums continues in the cities like Moscow...
Russia: Human Rights Lawyer Attacked
Muckraked! writes about a recent attack on a St. Petersburg human rights activist: Ivan Pavlov, director of the Institute for Information Freedom Development, an organization that “takes secretive government agencies...
Ethiopia: Raising the Wrong Flag
Wonkette of Weichegud! ET Politics posts a roundup of reaction to the ongoing treason trial in Ethiopia. More than 70 people are charged with crimes which carry the death penalty....
Russia: Copyright Violations
Yuri Mamchur of Russia Blog writes about the most recent case of copyright violations in Russia.
Indonesia: Playboy Indonesia
Paras Indonesia blog is asking the legislators upset over the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine why they are not troubled by pirated pornographic DVDs and child trafficking . “The legislators...
Singapore: Mean Football Club
James blogs about a local football club that treats its players, all of them foreigners, badly by paying them an unbelievably low allowance. The president of the team had argued...
Iran: A Photo about Addiction & Madness
In Seeking Life photoblog, we can see an interesting photo about a deranged addicted man in the street. The blogger says this poor man, hooked on drugs, is sitting on...
Bring the world of Bangla Blogs to GV
Bangla or the Bengali language is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world today. It is the official language in Bangladesh and one of the official languages...
Brunei: Learning English
Our Local Style in Brunei is not in favour of lowering the standard of English language in Brunei's schools.
China: NotBuyHouse leader legitimate?
Is leader of China's ‘NotBuyHouse’ movement Zou Tao a fraud, as translations of several Chinese blog postings from EastSouthWestNorth‘s Roland Soong seem to suggest? Or is he, as seen in...
Hong Kong: Tiananmen killings bloggage
A link to Youtube video from Sunday's candlelight vigil in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on Sunday at Nathan's n8ma blog here. The vigil commemorated the killing of peacefully-protesting students, workers...
Japan: Literary reader published
FG blogger Mulboyne takes a look at the recently-published book ‘Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion‘ and the stories in it which, the blogger writes, “like the country and the people,...
China: Chinese MySpace rumored
Tangos at China Web2.0 Review validates fears of web users in mainland China that Google and its e-mail service Gmail are next up on the Great Firewall of China block,...
Hong Kong: Tiananmen vigil
Photos from Sunday's candlelight vigil in Hong Kong's Victoria Park can be found here at Hong Kong Digital Vision blog. Sunday marks the seventeenth anniversary of the day China's People's...
China: Tiananmen accounting urged
Two interesting posts from Richard at The Peking Duck: first on an apology from Google co-founder Sergey Brin for decisions the proliferating company has made in regards to its operations...
China: Arrest of suspect's children
Michael D. Manning at The Opposite End of China blogs on a development in the case of Rebiya Kadeer, an Uyghur businesswoman accused by Chinese authorities of supporting the separatist...
Botswana: Podcast
Blogswana publishes its first podcast “The Blogs Must Be Crazy” which gives a background to the project on blogging for AIDS in Botswana
Africa: Technology & Renewable Energy
The African Uptimist is another new blog on the Africa scene. This one focuses on technology and renewable energy in Africa.
