Stories from 9 June 2006
Belarus: Homophobia
TOL's Belarus Blog highlights homophobic attitudes that seem to be prevalent in the country and are even shared by the otherwise progressive politicians: [Artur Finkievich, a leading “Youth Front” activist]...
Estonia: Homophobia and Racism
Giustino of Itching for Eestimaa and Estonia in World Media (RUS) report that the Dutch Ambassador has decided to leave Estonia due to the recent racist and homophobic attacks on...
Poland: Equality Parade to Take Place Saturday
Poland's Equality Parade will take place Saturday; Becca of Boo writes on her plans to participate and also muses about the importance of “standing up for fundamental rights in what...
Cambodia: Buddhist Monks and Football
Vutha in a post titled Reaction to watching World Cup 2006 compares the reaction of various people on monks watching the World Cup matches. “Meanwhile, there are different reactions to...
Serbia: Racism and Xenophobia
Dictionary of the Serbian Mess and Pustolovina: Adventure in Serbian write about instances of xenophobia in Serbia.
Moldova: Village Wine-Drinking Music Video
Peter Myers of Adventures in Moldova posts a music video (origin and performers unknown, I guess) that shows Moldovon countryside and local wine-drinking traditions.
Russia: Assaulted Activist Wins Lawsuit
Muckraked reports that Ivan Pavlov, the human rights lawyer who was attacked last week, won the lawsuit against Russia’s Bureau of Standards and Measures, which he believes had caused the...
Cambodia: Book on Cambodian History
Andy in his blog talks about a new book on Cambodian history “A book arrived through my letterbox today for review, namely John Tully's A Short History of Cambodia :...
Latin America: World Cup Weblogs
In addition to José Luis Orihuela's list of weblogs in Spanish dedicated solely to the World Cup, Colombian blogger Blue Elephant will be writing contributing to the football poetry at...
60th Anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej
People in Thailand are celebrating King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th anniversary of his accession to the throne. Royalty Originally uploaded by elbisreverri. Andrew Biggs describes the celebrations, part of which is...
Bolivia: Is Morales Delivering?
MABB asks readers “is Morales Delivering?” Buitrago is convinced that he is: first with the nationalization of hydrocarbons and now land reform.
China: Desperate football housewives
“Everyone has their own way of celebrating or dealing with the inconveniences of the World Cup,” writes Shanghaiist blogger Peijin Chen of pregnant Chinese women who have painted soccer balls...
China: University entrance exam
China's nightmarish university entrance exams wrapped up today. Seen in a post from Danwei‘s Joel Martinsen are rumors that ‘full-mark’ essays from the composition section are already being collected for...
South Korea: World Cup consciousness
NGOs in South Korea have banded together, writes Kotaji blogger Kotajihwal, to prevent World Cup fever from drawing attention away from pressing social and political issues.
Hong Kong: Chinese author porn
Roland Soong at EastSouthWestNorth translates an essay making waves on a Chinese BBS recently written by a woman calling herself the Franz Kafka of China. In a bid to draw...
China: Yahoo and the law
Chinablawger Kevin Fisher blogs in response to an article from a journalist advocacy group which condemns internet company Yahoo for cooperating with Chinese authorities in imprisoning Chinese journalists: “These Chinese...
Oil Wars: Auding the Voters’ Registry
Oil Wars writes that Venezuela's voters’ registry “was thoroughly audited in late 2005 by an independent outside agency which found that it was a largely accurate and was completely appropriate...
Venzuela: Metro Price Change
Qtpd describes the change in pricing (ES) at the Carcas metro. Rather than charging per segment, each journey will now have the same price (US $0.30) regardless of distance or...
Kenya: World Cup Indeed
MentalAcrobatics manages to link maths to football – well its here – World Cup 2006 and I have already missed 6 minutes !
Kenya: Perils of coffee picking
For the coffee addicts of the world, Cock and Bull Stories posts on the harzards of picking coffee – “When they tell you; ‘Finish you food, there are kids starving...
Kenya: African blogosphere
Kenyan Pundit sings the praises of an innovative and fast developing African blogoshphere.
