4 September 2006

Stories from 4 September 2006

Trinidad & Tobago: Youth, alcohol, cigarettes

  4 September 2006

The Manicou applauds a new Drug Abuse Prevention policy proposed by the Trinidad & Tobago Ministry of Education aimed at making all schools smoke and drug free, but wonders what effect this could have on the fundraising parties held on the premises of certain schools

Cuba: Chavez visits again

  4 September 2006

Cuban television has broadcast more video of ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro being visited by his friend and ally, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, reports Luis M. Garcia, who gleans two key messages from the footage.

Iran: Bloggers want to debate with Ahmadinejad

  4 September 2006

Irane Emrouz invites Ahmadinejad to debate with five bloggers in Iran rather than hoping to debate with American President. The blogger says in Ahmadinejad's eyes everything is either white or black. According to the blogger, in Ahmadinejad's letters to Bush or others, people have no place and he just invites...

China: Foxconn and First Financial Daily's collective statement

  4 September 2006

Yesterday, FoxConn and the First Financial Daily News released a joint statement: FoxConn would drop the charge while both sides made apologies and expressed multual respects towards each other in order to build a “harmonious society”. Many bloggers who have been blogging about the case and defending for the journalists...

China: education

  4 September 2006

Recently a vice president of Peking University said that university should train blue collar workers, Xueyong elaborates such debatable proposal in his blog by showing the contraditions in the inmagination of university education and the position of China as a world factory (zh).

China: AIDS activist

  4 September 2006

In respond to a comment, Hu Jia writes a very detailed post reporting what the AIDS activists have been doing in China and how they have been harassed by national security polices (zh).

Brazil: Musical Nostalgia in the Broadband Age

  4 September 2006

Daniela Thompson remembers us that “Brazilians are the most notorious music pirates in the world, and that the age of broadband makes it possible for almost everyone to indulge in musical nostalgia at no cost”. Check out the various links and detailed description about the audio files reservoirs hosting “from...