Stories from 24 October 2006
Kenya: enlightening experience from beer fast
Kenyan blogger, Bankele, took a month long beer fast. He writes about his enlightening experience, “Taken a (just ended) month long fast from beer which was very enlightening in terms...
Nigeria: restoring Nigerian image
Grandiose Parlor on Nigeria's problems, “Now, some might ask, with such huge revenue from oil and gas why does the country not receive a proportionate and favorable coverage. Why are...
Nigeria: world-class Nigerian fashion magazine
Dipotepede is humbled after finding out that the editor of Haute, a world-class fashion magazine featuring works of Nigerian designers all around the world, is only 21 years old, ”...
Ghana: Ghanian currency available on international market
Proudly African links us to a story in the Ghanian local newspaper about the Cedi, the Ghanian currency, “For the first time ever in this country’s history, and indeed in...
Ahmadinejad: Let the Population Grow
Kamangir reports about Iranian President's speech about the population growth. President Ahmadinejad said they say two children are enough [a famous slogan for controlling Iran’s population growth in the last...
Iran:Photos & Mousavi Khoini
Kosoof, a leading photo blogger has published photos of Mousavi Khoini's, human right activist and politician, after being released from jail. According to the blogger, Mousavi Khoini was arrested on...
China: dam project in tiger leaping gorge
DANWEI has a post on the future and potential conflict of the dam construction plan in the tiger leaping gorge in Yunnan province.
China: the elephant in the newsroom
The imagethief discusses about the quality of China's English language media, which, in his opinion is related to the elephant in the room studiously overlooked in the article above.
Hong Kong: protecting bloggers?
ESWN translates Sidekick's post pleading local media to protect the privacy of bloggers(zh); the recent case is a 12 years’ old girl saying in her blog that she wants to...
South Korea: the passing of former president
Matt summarizes the life of South Korea former president, Choi Gyu-ha, who passed away last Sunday.