Stories from 4 September 2006
Trinidad & Tobago: Youth, alcohol, cigarettes
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
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
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...
Hong Kong: Ching Cheong
T-Salon has put up a summary of local mainstream reports and blogs post on Ching Cheong's 5 years Verdict.
China: Foxconn and First Financial Daily's collective statement
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: Shaolin business
One Man Bandwidth reports that Shaolin KungFu is becoming a big business in China.
China: education
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
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).
South Korea: information about north Korea
Joshua in Korea Liberator tells people how to break the blockade and access to alternative information to North Korea.
Brazil: Musical Nostalgia in the Broadband Age
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...