Stories from 18 September 2006
Nepal: Or how the King blew it
Blogdai with a rather caustic note on how the King blew his opportunity in Nepal. “Kept looking for the Maoists, kept up the fight and kept marginalizing and ignoring the...
Bangladesh: Vatican and Macaca
Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying with a brief context to the Pope's remarks on Islam and how the Vatican handled the consequences. “His statement fell short of the...
Bangladesh: What was the Pope thinking?
Sadiq on debunking the Pope's statement on Islam. “His allegation is incorrect. Surah 2 is a Medinan surah revealed when Muhammad was already established as the leader of the city...
Serbia: Hip-Hop and Decentralization
Estavisti reports on the Serbian hip-hop, the Anti-Belgrade Front and the ideas of Serbia's decentralization.
Serbia: Belgrade Military Parade and Other Celebrations
Belgrade Blog writes about a military parade recently held in Serbia's capital. Also, there's a short video showing celebrations in Belgrade following victory of the Serbian waterpolo team: “…but this...
Russia: VP of Central Bank Killed
Russia Blog reports on the recent killing of Andrei Kozlov, vice president of Central Bank: “The equivalent crime in America would be killing the Vice Chairman of the U.S. Federal...
Russia: Another Deportation Anniversary
J. Otto Pohl covers another tragic date in the history of the Russian-Germans: the 65th anniversary of the forced deportation of those living in Rostov Region.
Bosnia & Herzegovina: Videos
YakimaGulagLiteraryGazett recommends videos that “show what it's like in BiH for ordinary people, it's very telling and it's real, I know this from my own experience.”
Global Food Blog Report #32
#1: From Sri Lanka, Moju meditations on Hitler and Vegetarianism: "Hitler was a vegetarian" As you can see below from the quotes of Hitler…he was a vegetarian and a teetotaler!...
Knight-Batten Awards: And the winner is…..
It was appropriate that, for an award given for innovations in journalism, overseen by J-Lab (the Institute of Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland), the news came from my...
Philippines: Most controversial military general
Army Major General Jovito Palparan is implicated in more than a hundred cases of human rights violations. He retired last week from active military service but the government vowed to...
Pope, American Embassy and Others
This week was an extremely busy week for all Syrian bloggers, notably Political Blogs had to make a number of updates, since the political atmosphere in syria was swirling with...
Poland's Pulse in the Blogosphere
The 16th century town of Kazimierz Dolny in Poland – by Gustav (Warsaw Station) The Polish Farmer and the Dell? From bovinechips to microchips, Polish Matters reports on the largest...
Postcards from the Congo
With the elections, the run-off announcement, the violent clashes between two presidential candidates, it's easy to focus only the DRC's political tempests. However, many Congo bloggers are writing about art,...
Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome
I [give] up sometimes… when I wake up in the morning [to] the sound of bomb. I feel like… someone took my heart and returned it back to my body…....
Jamaica: Recording artists — wise up!
A recent dispute between a songwriter/performer and a record label prompts Yardflex.com to say — in good Jamaican patois — that Jamaican recording artists need to get smart about the...
Cambodia: Remembering Khmer Rouge's Fall
Chhay Vet at Khmer440 blog remembers the day in 1979 when as a child he witnessed Vietnamese soldiers chase away the Khmer Rouge. “I remember the Vietnamese soldiers as being...
