Stories from 2 August 2006
Singapore: Bloggers Irked by Mainstream Media
Singapore's metablog Tomorrow.sg has a link to a blog post that is taking the mainstream media to task for it's love-hate relationship with bloggers.
Indonesia: Middle Income Country Status
Indonesia's Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) says that Indonesia is now a middle-income county. Blogger Indcoup says “But while BPS’s statement may boost the egos of some high-ranking govt officials like Yusuf Kalla who recently said Indonesia had already “come out of the 1998 economic crisis”, there may be a...
Singapore: Using MSN for Business
The blogger at mediaslut is happy to find a travel company that asks visitors on their website to contact their agents via MSN.
Cuba: Fidel in High Spirits
Writing from Venezuela, Daniel Duquenal pokes fun at Fidel Castro's opening sentence of a message to the Cuban population (available in its entirety (ES) at Juventud Rebelde) assuring his good health and high spirits after undergoing surgery. Agnerys Rodríguez Gavilán adds (ES) that, while Castro recuperates, “the Cuban Revolution will...
Bangladesh: Political allies
In politics bizarre things happen as ‘today’s enemy can be tomorrow’s friends.’ In Bangladesh, Prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia's party BNP agrees to form a coalition with the ex-dictator HM Ershad, a man accused of playing a role in the assassination of her husband, President Ziaur Rahman in 1980. Her party fought with others succeeding in bringing down the Ershad government in 1990 to establish true democracy in Bangladesh. imperfect | world | 2006 criticizes BNP's move and the oppositions' reactions.