Stories from 5 August 2006
What Salvadoran bloggers are saying — August festivals
The first week of August in El Salvador is a week for vacation. In Spanish, El Salvador means “the Savior” and nothing gets done as this historically Roman Catholic country celebrates the week leading up to the feast day of El Salvador del Mundo. It is a time of trips...
Ukraine: Victor Yushchenko the Anti-Hero (Or Not)
Victor Yanukovych is Ukraine's new prime minister, and it looks like the president, Victor Yushchenko, is the nation's new “anti-hero.” At least, this is what LJ user didaio concludes (UKR) after reading through the recent posts of his fellow-bloggers: Before August 2, the only problem with my friend list was...
Flying Over the Iraqi Blogodrome
I'm on holiday – posting from a smoky Internet Café in Turkey – so only time for a small sliver of the Iraqi blogs this week. There are two that really stood out and make essential reading. Both are from the same kind of person, secular, middle-class, Westernized, Iraqi. Both...
Iran: Photos from Khorramshahr
Haftan has published a link to a photo group exhibition about Khorramshahr 18 years after the Iran-Iraq War. Khorramshahr had been destroyed during the war. There are 32 photos available online .
Iran: Constitutional Revolution
Parsikhan reports that a seminar was held in Tehran to commemorate 100th year of Iranian Constitutional Revolution. According to the blogger, Mohammad Khatami, former President was first speaker of this seminar [Fa]. Several other reformist politicians took part in this conference.
Iran: Ganji talks about Gender Apartheid in Iran
Omid Memarian, blogger & journalist reports that Akbar Ganji, dissident journalist will talk about Gender Apartheid in Iran in UC Berkeley in USA.
Vietnam: South Saigon
Itsthefinalword looks at the changing face of southern Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Comment left by a visitors sums up the change “The area looks ritzy. Even in my wildest dreams, at the time my family left the city at the conclusion of the war, I cannot imagine Saigon would...
Singapore: Life in the 80s
Smoot blogs about a article going around Singapore's online space about the life in the 1980s Singapore.
Singapore: Emigration Concerns
Blogger Kwayteowman tackes on the concerns expressed by some on the keenness of many younger Singaporeans to emigrate to other countries.
Philippines: Alcoholism in Philippines
The blogger at Touched by an Angel looks at alcoholism in Philippines. “The effects of alcoholism are easily shown in the sensational section of the local TV news. How often do you see wives beaten up by their husbands? Or children being sexually abused by their biological fathers? What about...
Brunei: Wreck Dives in Brunei
The blogger at Brunei Resources introduces some ship wrecks popular with divers in Brunei.
Cambodia: French Films on Cambodia
Andy Brouwer introduces two recent French movies filmed in Cambodia
