Stories from 8 August 2006
China: english teacher
Imagethief responses to the recent article from AP about English teacher in China: “It has always seemed to me that teaching in English was the job of last resort for people who wanted to spend an extended period of time here. “
China: Shanghai book expo
Shang Neil in Shanghaiist reports on the book expo in Shanghai.
Hong Kong: blog research
Moluiology comments on a award winning research done by a professor in Hong Kong University claiming that blog can become a platform for hate speech. Moluilogy disagrees and points out that the 820 Xanga users in the research only constitutes 0.0164% of the Xanga population. Besides the researcher did not...
Hong Kong: lights out
Last night local environmental organizations jointly launched the light outs campaign in Hong Kong; the big white guy comments that “it turns out the power companies has nothing to fear of the Lights Out…” and “Lights Out failed because it didn't appeal to the people with power…”
East Asia: Asia history carnival
Frog in the Well runs the sixth Asia history carnival by grouping and reviewing blog posts and internet resources on China, Korea and other Asian countries history.
China: Lebanon
ESWN has a partial translations of a blog post from Hong Kong and an essay by a famous mainland Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo to show the readers what are the Chinese thinking about the Israel-Lebanon war?
Martinique: Homophobia and Tourism
Le Blog de [Moi] disagrees (Fr) with local LGBT association An Nou Alle that Martiniquan homophobia explains a recent lag in its tourism industry but agrees with them that certain local dancehall artists –Krys in particular– are going too far with their homophobic lyrics. She points our that Jamaica has...
Reunion: Whales Passing Through
In a news roundup, blogger Jean-Paul of Dijoux.re writes (Fr): “Whales are passing through our island to reach cold waters. The females are here to give birth before leaving for Antarctica. It is the first time that we have observed the washing up of a baby whale on our shores....
Kazakhstan: Bowling
Andrey of neweurasia offers bowling as a summer sport (ru).
Kazakhstan: Volga – Kazakhstan – Braunschweig
Ben Paarmann translates a story from German that tells how Volga Germans who were exiled to Kazakhstan are returning to Germany.
Armenia: Photo Manipulation
Onnik Krikorian uses the dismissal of a Reuters freelance photographer in Lebanon for manipulating photos as a springboard to discuss photojournalists’ ethics and photo manipulation in Armenian media.
Uzbekistan: Gulnora, Pop Star
Registan.net reports that the daughter of Uzbekistan's president has launched a pop music career and speculates on how it will impact pop music in Uzbekistan.
Latin America: United Against Menéame
Manuel Amador is collecting posts (ES) by bloggers who share his conviction that the popular Digg-like aggregation site Menéame (ES) is worthless.
Guatemala: Looking for Palladin
El Blog Diablogico runs into a film crew in Antigua only to discover what will be the first full-length feature to be shot entirely in Guatemala since Green Jade back in 1935
Albania: Letter to the Country
David Sheern writes a letter to Albania, advising it “on how to become a better nation.”
Ukraine: New Government
Dan McMinn of Orange Ukraine posts a reaction on Ukraine's new government headed by Victor Yanukovych.
Venzuela: The 1999 Floods and Climate Change
David, who continues to ride his bike along the Venezuelan coast, reminds readers of the deadly floods that claimed an estimated 30,000 victims in 1999.
Ukraine: Tymoshenko Interviewed
LEvko of Foreign Notes reports on Yulia Tymoshenko's most recent radio interview, in which she talks, among other things, about Victor Yushchenko's broken promises.
Ukraine: Romance Tours
Everybody I Love You criticizes a feature on “romance tours” to Ukraine that appeared in Harper's.
Russia: Chechens and Navajos
J. Otto Pohl reviews citations of his work and runs into an interesting book that compares the Chechens and Navajos: “Both the ethnic cleansing of the Navajos and the Chechens took place during “Good Wars” at the hands of the “Good Guys.” The Union Army marched the Navajos to Bosque...
Chile: “How the Chilean Internet was Born”
Everyone knows that Al Gore invented the internet (joking!), but how did that invention spread to Chile? Mary Joyce tells the story following her meeting with Professor Florencio Utrera.
