Stories from 27 June 2006
Lusosphere blogs report the latest political twists in East Timor
Since the last report from the lusophone blogosphere, the crisis in East Timor has evolved with the country now divided between the President Xanana Gusmão and the Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. Once again, reading about the situation in the Anglophone media tells a quite different story from what appears in...
DRC: Kudos to Le Monde
Le Blog du Congolais points to a recent article by Le Monde on mining in the Katanga and says (Fr): “At last, Le Monde has decided to break from the dominant tendency in western media to report on the Congo what they are dictated by biased high European Commissaries, Belgian...
Jamaica, USA: The making of a poet
Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp recalls his early days in Miami and his rise from supermarket bag boy to community college student and — eventually — winner of a college poetry prize.
Afghanistan: Proud to be Afghan!
Sohrab Kabuli has published a photo from the Afghan cricket team in London and says he does not understand why their t-shirts say “Proud to be Afghan”. The blogger says that Afghans in the west usually run away from their countrymen and try to pretend that they are not Afghans...
Haiti, Ghana, Brazil: Football allegiances
Ghana's inspired performance at this year's World Cup raises issues of allegiance for Haitian-American blogger Nightshift and some of his friends.
Mongolia: Past Crimes
Luke Distelhorst reports on how the Mongolian government is and isn't redressing the crimes of the communist government.
Central Asia: Literary Guide
Registan.net has a survey of literature from and about Central Asia.
Guyana: Amusing umbrella
Guyana-Gyal's beat-up umbrella becomes a source of amusement for a minibus driver.
Armenia: House Blessing
Onnik Krikorian reports on and has photographs from the blessing of a house built by Habitat for Humanity in Armenia.
Uzbekistan: Centralized Civil Society
neweurasia carries a report from an anonymous Tashkent resident on the Uzbek government's centralization of civil society.
Armenia: Fighting Corruption
Akhtamar of ArmYouth Blog has a strategy for fighting petty corruption.
Bermuda: Etiquette rules for guest workers
Bermudasucks.com presents a list of etiquette rules for guest workers. An example: “Ensure that all necessary tasks have been concluded before you give the customer your attention. These could include: filing your nails; talking to your co-workers; taking phone calls from your ace boy/girl; debating whether Shakisha in accounts has...
Belarus: The Language Issue
In a perfect world, languages would be nothing but a way for people to communicate with each other – no language would be considered superior or inferior, children would be encouraged to study as many as possible. In the real world, however, languages are being used as political and ideological...
Reporters Without Borders: How They Protect Bloggers & How You Can Help
Last month, Global Voices launched its Help These Bloggers page, signaling the organization's entry into blogger advocacy. (Find out how to add our advocacy badge to your website here.) Although always part of Global Voices mission, support for jailed bloggers became particularly pressing in the past six months due to...
Belarus: Stencil Graffiti
A new LJ community has been created: by_stencil – “Belarusian stencil REVOLUTION” (BEL, RUS) It includes photos of both political and apolitical stencil graffiti in Belarus. One photo is from Warsaw, however, taken near the Centrum metro station: “Stop Lukashenko,” says the writing in Polish, next to the portrait of...
Ukraine: Trip to Chernobyl
MoldovAnn posts an account of her trip to the the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone: “…wild land, more or less untouched by humans for the past 20 years. […] It was breathtaking, even, to see the vast expanse of lush green. At the same time, though, you can never forget that you...
Ukraine: Party of the Regions vs the Coalition
Adrian J. Erlinger of Leopolis reports that the Party of the Regions is “preventing the new coalition from getting down to business.”
Ukraine: Coalition and Gas Agreement
LEvko of Foreign Notes writes about the newly-formed coalition and one of the most important issues facing it: re-negitiation of gas agreements with Russia and Turkmenistan.
News 21 team in Korea
News 21 team, formed by a group of students from University of California with the interest of reporting US military abroad, is now visiting South Korea. GI Korea Blog helps summarize the trip.
Chile, Argentina: Blogger Reunions
Two blogger meetups in the Southern Cone. Ariel Vercelli reminds readers (ES) that June 29th is “Weblog Day” (ES) in Buenos Aires with an event at the University of Palermo. Meanwhile, Argentine-Spaniard José Luis Orihuela, author of the recently published “The Blog Revolution (ES),” will take advantage of his time...
Brazil: São Paulo Pride 2006
Made in Brazil has an assortment of posts on São Paulo Pride 2006, which ended last week.
