16 August 2006

Stories from 16 August 2006

Hungary, Poland: Crime Roundup

Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about the deportation of ex-con Gabor Magosztovics (aka Joe Dinardo, aka Ironman “during his heavyweight boxing career”) from Canada to Hungary. The beatroot...

16 August 2006

Balkans: Serbian Propaganda

In an emotionally charged post about Serbian propaganda, Srebrenica Genocide Blog quotes from the ICTY testimony of his former high school teacher, Dragan Lukac, a Bosnian Croat concentration camp survivor.

16 August 2006

Belarus: Prohibition Looming

BM of TOL's Belarus Blog is shocked: Belarusians may soon have to drink juice, not beer or vodka, outside; underage drinking may become impossible; stores may be forced to stop...

16 August 2006

Brazil: Lula Declines Debate

Boz says that President Lula da Silva made a big error by declining to show up for the first presidential debate. Opposition blogger Luís Afonso Assumpção is bothered by Lula's...

16 August 2006

Bolivia: Bloomberg and Bolivian Gas

Jim Shultz admits that every journalist and blogger makes a mistake from time to time, but the reporting by Bloomberg News, according to Shultz, creates “a false public image that...

16 August 2006

Peru: Music: Remix Culture

Oscar Montezuma introduces Novamlima, the new project of Miki Gonzales. According to Montezuma (ES) the new album is “another glimpse of Peru's remix culture.”

16 August 2006

India: The Turtle Girl

The Doodle Spot on a woman who spent much time working with turtles. “Viji (as Vijaya was called) was India’s first woman herpetologist when such a career was unknown in...

16 August 2006

Myanmar: Celebrity Website

Man Actually posts a link to a site on Myanmar celebrities and talks about the latest singing sensation in Myanmar who pens her phone number along with her autograph. “I...

16 August 2006

Indonesia: Iranian President's Blog

Unspun discoves that Iranian President Mahmood Ahmadinejad blogs too. The Iranian president was a recent guest in Indonesia and he was very well received there.

16 August 2006

China and Japan: the Ants

Richard in the Peking Duck introduces a new Japanese movie “the Ants” which explores the topic of WWII war crime with merciless honesty.

16 August 2006

China: GDP calculation

Rosu in Bullog points out that the calculation of GDP by the National Statistic Bureau is very arbitrary. According to the reports from 31 provinces, the growth of GDP in...

16 August 2006

China: webcast regulation

According to Wang Xiao feng, the National Broadcast and Television Bureau will introduce a new regulation which requires permission for all internet webcast (zh).

16 August 2006