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19 October 2006

Stories from 19 October 2006

Kenya: Kenyan blogger passes away

The Kenyan blogger, Kachumbari, who wrote from a village in Central Kenya has passed away: “I just found out from Ndesanjo that Kachumbari was killed in a car accident several...

Written by Ndesanjo Macha
20 October 2006

Africa: opening door to African cinema

“For decades, African cinema has been poised for the kind of international breakthrough that Asian and Middle Eastern films have enjoyed. There are lots of stories to be told and...

Written by Ndesanjo Macha
20 October 2006

Zimbabwe: woman-on-woman violence

Zimbabwean cartoonist joins the debate around the Domestic Violence Bill, “He raises an interesting issue, writing at some length about the ill-treatment of maids by their female employers, discussing this...

Written by Ndesanjo Macha
20 October 2006

Gambia: human rights violation

Home of the Mandinmories writes about torture and coercion of the alleged coup plotters in the Gambia: Browsing through the Point today, a story on the court martial of Captain...

Written by Ndesanjo Macha
20 October 2006

Kyrgyzstan & Azerbaijan: Pollution

Ben Paarman notes that Kyrgyzstan's Mailuu Suu has been listed as one of the ten most polluted sites on earth by a US environmental group. Elsewhere in Central Asia and...

Written by Nathan Hamm
20 October 2006

Korea: Mount Geumgang Tourism project

Occidentalism summarizes the buzz over Mt Geumgang tourism project. Reports said that Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill demanded the supension of “inter-Korea project” as a part of the sanction...

Written by Oiwan Lam
20 October 2006

China: Agricultural bank of China

Logan Wright points out that Agricultural bank of China is following the bailouts and the overseas listings of the other large state-owned banks (Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank...

Written by Oiwan Lam
20 October 2006

Turkmenistan: Monument to Irony

Registan.net notes that Turkmenistan's president has unveiled a building shaped like a book that is a gift to the country's media and dedicated to free media. The author notes that...

Written by Nathan Hamm
20 October 2006

China: Satiric SMS or libel

Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translated an article from Nanfang daily on a prosecution resulted from a political poem in Chongqin.

Written by Oiwan Lam
20 October 2006

Chilean Bloggers Around the World

Ana María (ES) lives in Heidelberg. She explains that to pass the cold winter she discovered wool. With it she makes small handcraft dolls and posts them on her blog....

Written by Rosario Lizana
20 October 2006

Panama: A Rant

In his inimitable style, Rob Rivera let's loose with “Panamanians and My Rants.”

Written by David Sasaki
20 October 2006

Mexico: Oaxaca Update

Both Ana Maria Salazar and Mark in Mexico relate, in their respective styles, the heightened political ambitions of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO). Colin Brayton describes...

Written by David Sasaki
20 October 2006

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