Stories from 19 July 2006
Iran: No prayer with President
Tehran Shahr reports from Tehran that Resalat Tunnel was inaugurated after 9 years in the presence of President Ahmadinejad, Mayor of Tehran and some conservatives’ personalities such as Mehdi Chamran, Abadgaran party's speaker. The blogger says all reporters were asked not to ask Ahmadinejad any questions. Tehran Shahr says Ahmadinejad...
Iran: What democracy!
Tayebeh Beheshti, a teenage Hezbollah writes she does not understand why some Hezbollah members like to say we have democracy in Iran and we can say what we want! The blogger says it is clear that we do not have a western democracy in Iran and we can not say...
Kenya: Munyakei remembered
Thinker's Room remembers David Munyakei, “the man who put his neck on the line to blow the whistle on the colossal theft that is the Goldenberg scandal”, who died Sunday evening after a short illness. The corruption racket is estimated to have cost Kenya U.S.$850 million in the early 1990s.
Nigeria: Bout Malaria
Taurean Minx gets sick, and discovers the nasty way about drug resistance among the various strains of malaria.
Kenya: Job-search headache
Afrofeminizta is on a job-hunt, sharpening her strategies and wondering how to outperform her competitors. “The search for a new job requires almost a whole separate strategy for handling the emotions it unleashes in you,” she muses.
Ethiopia: Wolfowitz statement
Ethioblog takes issue with recent “disheartening” comments from World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who traveled to Ethiopia a few days ago. He calls them “guarded to the point of being empty even by diplomatic standards, contrast sharply with donor language just six months ago.”
Kenya: Aching heads
“Something I think that headaches are a national disease in East Africa,” writes Video journalist. “You cannot go for two minutes on the streets without having some kind of headache relief fired to you.”
Argentina: My First PC Program and its Detractors
The Argentine government has relaunched its federal program MiPC [My First Personal Computer], or as Mariano Amartino refers to it (ES), MiPC Reloaded. The original incarnation of the program, which hoped to narrow the digital divide by distributing affordable computers nationwide, debuted last April where it was met with severe...
Myanmar: Azarni Day
Mayvelous, a Burmese living in Fiji remembers poems and songs on Myanmar's founding father on the Martyr’s Day or Azarni Day as it is known in Myanmar.
Indonesia: Tsunami Alarm
The blogger at Indonesia's Economy Blog does not agree with the Science and Technology minister . The minister claims that giving warning tsunami warnings on radio is a bad idea. UPDATE: Apparantly, the minister was misquoted. Pls check the comments on this post.
Japan and South Korea: territory debate
Gerry-Bevers invites open discussion concerning the Japan-South Korea territory debate surrounding “Dokdo/Takeshima” (an island between two countries) in Occidentalism.
Japan: Japan football
Ampontan from Japundit blogs about ancient Japanese football game called “kemari”.
Japan: weather forecast
“Japan is planning to implement a new program that provides forecasts of typhoons, storms, blizzards, droughts and other inclement weather 30 years in advance!” JP reports on this in Japundit.
China: KFC
ESWN translates Hu Jinghua's report in Financial and Economic Times concerning the recently debate about KFC's newly release adverstiment that adopted the image of Seven Swords in CCTV. The ad has stirred up strong discontent among Chinese culturati.
Taiwan: human trafficking
David discusses about the US State Department downgraded Taiwan to its “tier two” watch list in its latest Trafficking in Persons Report in jujuflop. He hopes that the report can give pressure to improve the human rights of overseas migrants (brides, workers and maids).
China: Journey to the West
There are some discussions about Spielberg’s plans to remake Journey to the West. However, some worries that western director will turn the Monkey King into his Hollywood cousin, King Kong. Peijin Chen puts up a report in Shanghaiist.
