Stories from 11 October 2006
Ukraine: New Appointments, Old Faces
Foreign Notes writes about the recent appointments made by president Yushchenko: Vasyl Baziv, Oleksandr Zinchenko, and Vitaliy Hayduk.
China: Youth, too much free time
Obscurity is here to stay for the residents of a distant northern Chinese town, it seems, judging from a post this week from Chongqing-based blogger-journalist Ran Yunfei. 中国的县之多，从未听说过某一县，当然不足为奇。比如山西的方山县，我就从未听说过。但最近这个县的县委书记张国彪来了个铁腕政策，打着为保护未成年学生的幌子，关掉该县县城所有网吧，干涉商人经商之自由，以及人们了解信息之自由。还被许多人赞美，这真是滑天下之大稽。 There are many counties in China. To have never heard of a certain country is of course nothing strange. Shanxi‘s Fangshan county,...
Russia: Journalist's Death and the Country's Future
President Vladimir Putin said this (RUS) about Anna Politkovskaya's murder in an interview with Suddeutsche Zeitung Tuesday: I have to say that her political influence (and I think that the experts will agree with me) was insignificant inside the country, and, most likely, she was more noticeable in the human...
Chile: What's That Smell?
Chileno clarifies what he thought had been a “mysterious toxic gas cloud in Santiago.”
Venezuela: The Avalanche From Caracas
Alfredo Ascanio gives another first-hand impression of the “avalanche march” by opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.
Colombia: New Bird
John Guzman shows a “new” Colombian Bird that even proudly wears the patria.
Honduras: “How to have a better banking experience in Honduras”
An American expat living in La Ceiba, Honduras offers two handy posts on “the frustrations of banking” and “how to have a better banking experience” in Honduras.
India: Kiran Desai and the Booker
Indian author Kiran Desai wins the booker for ‘The Inheritance of Loss’. Ultra Brown has some interesting links and Amitava Kumar has a little on the author and her first work.
Nepal: Maoists and Arms
The peace deal in Nepal has obstacles. One of them being the Maoists’ reluctance to give up their arms. Bloggers Nepal has more. “The government wants the Maoists to give up their weapons before joining the interim government in order to assure that the rebels do not have an army...
Colombia: Tecdigestion
Of T E C D I G E S T I Ó N [ES] by Alvaro Montes, blogsColombia writes [ES]: “From open source to “digital ecology,” with a critical vision of journalism, technology, and the current state of the digital divide in Colombia and worldwide. Highly recommendable.”
Mexico, Argentina, France: Fort Boyard
Bilingual Mexican blogger Andrés Bianciotto reminds readers of the reality TV show Fort Boyard? (which was apparently very popular in Argentina) and points them to a post about the fort on Google Sightseeing.
Peru: Food: Crema de Zapallo
Another tasty Peruvian recipe, this time Don Ball Carbajal tells us how to make Crema de Zapallo.
Guatemala: Film: “Las Cruces… Poblado Proximo”
Patrick of the Guatemala Solidarity Network transaltes a description of the new Guatemalan film, “Las Cruces… Poblado Proximo” from Blog de mi Guatemala [ES]. Patrick also posts the trailer of the film, which is available on YouTube.
Sri Lanka: The average Sri Lankan
Having read a book on consumers in Sri Lanka, indi.ca reflects on the average Sri Lankan. “It’s called ‘Profiling the Sri Lankan Consumer‘ by Uditha Liyanage. It’s not the best written book, but it has a lot of facts. As an example, let’s take the average Sri Lankan male. He...
Pakistan: A man named Gulzar
Shirazi on Gulzar, a newspaper forwarding agent. “That was a place from where he arranges the dispatch of newspaper and periodicals to the agencies in over 200 stations (including remote villages, towns and small cities). He uses railways, road transport and airlines of that purpose. He has employed 11 workers,...
Sri Lanka: NGOs and the Tsunami
LankaWatch on the post-Tsunami money that was streamed into Sri Lanka and how NGOs cannot account for the money. “Almost 2 years on, most NGOs are not able account for the millions of dollars that poured into Sri Lanka after the devastating Tsunami that hit in December 2004.”
Iran: Photos and Women
Zannevesht has published a link to National Geographic prize winner's, Newsha Tavakolian, photos. Newsha Tavakolian has been selected as a 2006 All Roads Photography Program award-winner for her photo essay entitled Iran: Women in the Axis of Evil.
Jordan: Jordanising The Workforce
Nas reports that the Jordanian government has decided to “Jordanise” the workforce by creating a ‘strategy’ that includes using the municipalities to employ Jordanians through a direct application process. If all goes according to plan, some 40,000 foreign workers will be replaced with Jordanians.
Syria: The making of the suicide bomber
Speaking as a former Muslim extremist, Ammar contribute a few personal insights into the making of the would-be suicide bomber– the fate that he was lucky enough to elude.
Palestine: Peaceful Demonstrations in Al Khadr
Last sunday a peaceful demonstration was organized in the village of Al Khadr located on the outskirts of Bethlehem. One of the main food items to be produced by Al Khadr is grapes. The potest concerned the increasing ghettoization of the village which preventing access to external markets adding to...
India: Ramadan in Mumbai
Photos on flickr by tomato umlaut caputing Mumbai at night during Ramadan. Wonderful photographs from the street, as food gets cooked for the faithful.
