Stories from 1 September 2006
Kazakhstan: Monarchy
Sean Roberts notes that the son-in-law of Kazakhstan's president thinks Kazakhstan would be well-served by a constitutional monarchy.
Turkmenistan: Desert League
Joanne Schirm reports on a historic moment in sports in Turkmenistan — the first baseball game played between teams from different provinces. The Dashoghuz Devils emerged victorious over the Mary Sharks.
Uzbekistan: Bread
Nick of neweurasia sings the praises of Uzbek bread.
Armenia: Nessuna
Onnik Krikorian notes the disappearance of another Armenian blog written by Nessuna, who often shone a light on issues not covered by other bloggers.
Kazakhstan: Lines
Narcogen gives a thorough treatment to the particulars of waiting in lines in Kazakhstan.
Russia: Beslan Anniversary; Day of Knowledge
For LJ user yume_yami, a 14-year-old high school student from St. Petersburg, September 1 is, above all, the first day of classes; she posts a picture of herself at today's Day of Knowledge ceremony at her school and writes (RUS): Tada-datam) It's happened) I did survive it. Everything went as...
Bermuda: Bermuda Maps
Bermuda has released Bermuda Maps, its “own version of Google maps.” The Limey has a few criticisms, but in general he's pretty pleased with it.
Thailand: Reaction to Bombing
Bangkok Pundit reviews media reports on the bombing in Southern Thailand. The bombs were left at banks and ATMS and set off by timer.
Bahamas: The milk stand
A slice of Bahamian history is encapsulated in a milk stand in Nassau that was recently bulldozed to create a traffic lane. Nicolette Bethel tells the story.
Barbados: Eat local
Linda Thompkins encourages visitors to Barbados — “the only place in the world where MacDonald's failed” — to eat local. [Editor's note: McDonald's also eventually pulled out of Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, though they operated considerably longer in those countries than in Barbados, where they apparently lasted only six...
Barbados: Financial test case
Barbados is the venue for a court case testing a new law permitting minority shareholders in a corporation the power to have a court review of the company's activities, reports Barbados Free Press.
Guadeloupe: Demanding a Fiscal Revolution
Convention pour une Guadeloupe Nouvelle, the blog of a political organization by the same name, deplores (Fr) that a recent law mandating that duty-free zones be created in Guadeloupe has not been implemented. The blog adds: “Guadeloupe needs an in-depth fiscal reform in order to ensure its economic growth, create...
French Antilles: Arrival of ADSL Technology?
InternetRapide.com wonders (Fr) whether a recent sign read in a French Guiana telecom store predicts the imminent arrival of ADSL TV in the French Overseas Departments of the Caribbean.
Russia: September 1
Snowsquare.com provides a brief explanation of what September 1 is in Russia.
Russia: Caran d'Ache
Snowsquare.com writes about the Swiss pencil-maker with a Russian-sounding name: Caran d'Ache.
Russia: Casualties and Cruelty in Chechnya
Sean's Russia Blog writes about the Russian army's “lack of transparency in casualty figures” and quotes from a New York Times piece on the “allegations of state-sponsored” cruelty in Chechnya: “It seems that Kadyrov’s Chechnya is turning out to be no different than the late Shamil Basaev’s would have been.”
Russia: Deripaska and Pichugin
Charlie Ganske of Russia Blog writes about Oleg Deripaska and the world's largest aluminum producer, and about the case of Aleksei Pichugin, former chief of security for Yukos.
Belarus: News Roundup
Most recent topics covered by TOL's Belarus Blog include: short-wave radio and “independent information” in Belarus; a proposed linguistic “upgrade” and other threats to the Belarusian language; scandals surrounding scholarship programs for persecuted students; Russian criticism of the Belarusian election law.
Iran: A blind electronic music composer
Ankabout presents us Aboozar, his blind electronic music composer from Iran. You can download some samples of his music or but them .
Indonesian Blogger Confronts US Media View on Indonesian Muslims
Here is a stark example on how people from different cultures see the same thing differently. And how bias and pre-occupied notion on certain issue and on certain people or community can lead you to see thing only from the negative side of the picture. Rasyad A. Parinduri at Sarapan...
China: Lists
Blogger's block, we all get it sometimes. Ruthless readers, our editors, don't have time for excuses. So what's a blogger to do? Lists! Here are few from the last few days of the Chinese blogsphere, ordered with a certain amount of thematic continuity:
