Stories from 1 August 2006
Fiji: Disappearing Province Websites
Fiji blog Babasiga finds that websites for Fiji's provinces are fast disappearing.
Cable TV is a right
The Sri Lankan blogosphere is concerned by the Sri Lankan government's decision of shutting down LBN & CBNSat cable TV services in the country and more to follow. Hundreds of thousands of subscribers are affected by this. Lanka Libertarian ironically puts that the Sri Lankan government should make cable tv a basic human right shielded by the constitution.
South Korea: boring or fun
Robert Koehler disagrees with the comment that Korea is a boring country and explains the charm of Korea that he has experienced in Marmot's Hole.
China: tibet activist
Ohmynews citizen reporter, Munish Nagar, posts his interview with a Tibetan independent activist, Kalsang Phuntsok, a member of the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC).
China: media climate
Asia media forum puts up an interview with the editor (Hu Shuli) of Chinese economic magazine, Caijing. In the interview, Hu talked about the importance of professionalism and commented on Chinese media climate.
Taiwan: media and independent music
Sounds and Fury has an angry post commenting on the mainstream media's attitude towards independent music during the recent 3 days annual independent music festival. The writer links the development of music industry with media reform (zh). “The issue at stake is not only whether or not they reports on...
China: conversation
Bingfeng posts a conversation with an overseas Tibetan, Tenzin, in his blog on various issues including the role of Dalai Lama, Tibet autonomy, etc.
Sunny Maldives
South Asia Biz posts 10 reasons why one should travel Maldives. The small country situated on the south, southeast of India consists of 1,192 islets, out of which two hundred are inhabited by people. The main attractions include visa free entry, modern resorts, scuba diving heaven, water sports, picturesque sceneries with natural landscape and it remains sunny all the year.
Bollywood does Othello
Bollywood has succesfully adapted William Shaekspeare's Othello with enough brilliance, emotion, grandeur, wit and drama. Amit Varma posts a round up of reviews of Vishal Bhardwaj's blockbuster Omkara.
Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere
Gushers of cool at the local Mall in Warsaw – by Embe, WarsawDaily Poland is a hotspot in a few ways this week. While the heatwave is starting to take its toll on fan stocks (Warsaw seems to be sold out of them), Blog from Poland reports on the annual...
Guatemala: Blog Marathon
Oscar Mota announces the commencement of the “Guatemalan Blogs Marathon,” which will coordinate and track conversations throughout the Guatemalan blogosphere for one week, starting today. You can subscribe to the category feed.
Pana-Blogs Report
#1: Chiriqui Chatter: "US Consular Outreach Happened" Michelle Javor, Vice Consul – Chief, American Citizens Services and Mayra Luaces, Foreign Service National Supervisor, met with a large group of US citizens at the first US Consular Outreach in David, Chiriquí last Friday. I would estimate that there were over 20...
