23 June 2006

Stories from 23 June 2006

Argentina: Translation of Qué Vachaché

  23 June 2006

Robert Wright admits that he's not the world's biggest fan of tango, but a few songs have grabbed his attention and here he offers an English translation of “Qué vachaché” written by Enrique Santos Discépolo and popularized by Tita Merello.

Argentina: José Pekerman

  23 June 2006

Roberto Bobrow informs readers about Argentine football head coach, José Pekerman and his shared bloodline with Hollywood actor, Gregory Peck.

Plane Crashed in Fujian

  23 June 2006

It's the “third crash of Chinese airforce planes occurred in this month”, The Horse's Mouth translates. Considering the recent crashes of the airforce planes (all) occurred in Nanjing Military District, which is confronting Taiwan, this reflects that the training volume of airforce planes in this area has gone up sharply,...

Dell on Fire!

  23 June 2006

Gaston saw that a Dell laptop computer exploded into flames , at a conference in Japan. The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes…We'd suggest you avoid actually using a laptop on your lap. Ouch.

Taiwanese Oversized Wedding Albums

  23 June 2006

Jason from Wandering to Tamshui talks about Taiwan’s booming wedding photography industry, and a book called “Framing the Bride“, written by Bonnie Adrian. Looking past the ridiculous fads and soft lighting that are endemic to the industry, Adrian manages to come up with some interesting theories on why Taiwanese (and...

Egypt: Pope Shenouda's health in danger

Zeinobia writes that Pope Shenouda's health is in danger now and already he went to Germany in treatment journey in the same hospital President Mubarak went last year. The medical test showed how danger his health condition has reached and that he must go to the United States for immediate...

To Be or Not to Be a Martyrdom Seeker

In Iran some people call themselves martyrdom seekers and demonstrate in cities to show their readiness to die for Islamic Republic. A couple of weeks ago Mohammad Masih, blogger and martyrdom seeker invited several bloggers with different points of views share their ideas about martyrdom seekers. Let's look at briefly...

Botswana: HIV Implementers meeting

  23 June 2006

Blogswana reports on the 3rd Annual HIV/AIDS Implementers Meeting….”series of studies presented at the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief's annual meeting (this past week) suggested that men shouldn't be written off in fighting the disease”

Botswana: Nata village launched

  23 June 2006

NataVillage blog reports that Nata Village officially launched.….”Everyone in attendance was proud that Nata is the 1st village in Botswana with it’s own website! At the conclusion of the program, Mr. Tiro provided lunch for the reporters who travelled 120 miles from Francistown to cover our event.”

Nigeria: Finance minister redeployed

  23 June 2006

Exodus comments on the firing of Nigeria's finance minister Mrs Okonjo-Iweala…..”I knew it! I knew the administration had tampered with the foreign reserves (and I suspect to the ignorance of Ngozi). The people in the Senate must know what they are talking about. OBJ don chop money; probably used it...

Iran: Flags, Football & Politics

According to Omid Habibinia, media researcher & blogger, Iranian football supporters carried different flags based on their political attitudes. The blogger says some carried a flag with the sun and lion which belonged to the pervious regime and used today by Monarchists and Mojahedin of People (two opposition groups). Some...

Ghana: American Dreams shattered

  23 June 2006

Koranteng's Toli has a slightly different take on celebrating Ghana's win over the USA – the African blogosphere is on a high right now – it's complicated – the African Nation and the American Dream – ideintity politics – READ IT.

Indonesia Growing Good Blogs, Hatemails and Asia Blog Awards

  23 June 2006

Indonesia blogosphere this last two years has witnessed the growing and heartening development of good blogging and quality bloggers to cheer about. This, for most reason, due to the emergence of some Indonesian intellectuals, writers and journalists who start showing their interests to blog. I have some of good bloggers...