23 August 2006

Stories from 23 August 2006

Central Asia: Borders 2

Ben Paarmann has posted part two of his series of posts on the determination of Central Asia's national borders during the Soviet period.

24 August 2006

Kazakhstan: Urker

Leila and Ben of neweurasia post an interview with Urker, a Kazakh pop-folk band from Almaty.

24 August 2006

Kazakhstan: Responding to Borat

Sean Roberts reports that awarenes of Kazakhstan in the United States is much higher than it was a few years ago as a result of Sascha Baron-Cohen's “Borat” character. He...

24 August 2006

Afghanistan: Cooperation Please!

Afghan Warrior talks about the importance of cooperation between Nato forces and Afghan National Army. The blogger says last week 12 border police were killed by a coalition air strike...

24 August 2006

The Week that Was – Bolivian Blogs

Emigration from Bolivia, especially to Western European countries, continues to be a topic of discussion in the Bolivian blogosphere. Two Bolivians, who currently reside in Europe, are dismayed over tighter...

23 August 2006

Iran: A Radio for Websites

According to Haftan, Webna is a new radio to inform news about websites [Fa]. This radio has also its own blog and site. Webna calls itself Iranian Website News Agency.

23 August 2006

Lebanon: One Week after the Cease Fire

Most Lebanese Blogs still reflect on the war and its aftermath. Some post photos of Lebanese trying to regain their lives and their efforts to fix that which was damaged. Others write political and social analysis of what happened and what should be done in addition to some personal accounts. Here is a sample. Happy reading.

23 August 2006

Ukraine: Senior Officer Killed

LEvko of Foreign Notes writes about the organized crime and political connection of the recent murder of a senior officer involved in investigation of a “money laundering operation linked to...

23 August 2006

Russia: “The Wrong Umarov”

David McDuff of A Step At A Time translates an article “on the strained efforts of the Moscow-backed Chechen government to claim the capture of an Umarov, even if it...

23 August 2006

Russia: 113 Houses in Sokol

Copydude writes about the fate of Sokol, a Soviet-time “intellectuals’ thinkpark” near Moscow, and a common belief that “in St. Petersburg, the woman sweeping the yard will stop to discuss...

23 August 2006

Sri Lanka: The BPO Sector

With business outsourcing becoming a major source of employment and economic development for South Asia, LirneAsia presents a baseline sector analysis of Sri Lanka's BPO sector.

23 August 2006

Trinidad & Tobago: Tourism truth

Asks Trinidadian Elspeth Duncan: “Can our ‘tourism truth’ continue to lie in pretty cliches, unchanging statistics and glossy, tropical images Photoshopped to seduce foreigners?“

23 August 2006

Sri Lanka: The Sudan Model for Peace

Achieving peace in Sri Lanka with the “Sudan Model” – “But, GOSL have all reasonable excuses to set such a condition, given that the tigers have denied ample opportunities to...

23 August 2006