6 November 2006

Stories from 6 November 2006

Taiwan: Former Justice Minister

The former Minister of Justice, Chen Ding-nan passed away in the midst of the President corruption scandal. Levitator has more background on the Chen.

7 November 2006

China: real name registration

ESWN translated an article from Southern Weekend on the blogger real name registration system proposed by Ministry of Information Industry.

7 November 2006

South Korea: who are US allies?

Robert Koehler comments on a commentary by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist which was viewed by Korean media a “naked expression of anti-Korean sentiment”. In the article, the columnist called Japan and...

7 November 2006

Puerto Rico: Mosquito experiments

“For things like this the colony has always been useful,” says (ES) Tinta Digital, discussing a series of experiments conducted on mosquitos in poor communities in Puerto Rico by the...

7 November 2006

Brazil: Lula's Victory

The presidential election results in Brazil showed, despite dire opposition predictions that victory for Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva would produce an untenable political situation, that Lula indeed has the...

7 November 2006

Kazakhstan: Free Haircuts

KZBlog reports on a bizarre scheme in Astana, Kazakhstan in which local officials have required hair salons to provide free services to pensioners and veterans of World War II.

6 November 2006

Kazakhstan: Borat Opens

Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, the story/mockumentary telling a “Kazakh” journalist's quest across America to marry Pamela Anderson, opened over the weekend in North America much of Europe and neweurasia looks...

6 November 2006

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan: Steinmeier

neweurasia reports on the visits of Germany's foreign minister to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Both trips were part of a region-wide tour that comes as Germany works on a comprehensive Central...

6 November 2006

Serbia: Attractions of Halovo

Trans Europa Express writes about the blacksmith and other attractions of “Halovo, Serbia: 538 meters above sea level, 500 meters away from the Bulgarian border. Number of houses: Depends on...

6 November 2006

Russia: Deportation of Karachais

J. Otto Pohl writes about yet another tragic anniversary: the 1943 deportation of Karachais “from their ancestral homeland in the North Caucasus to desolate areas of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.”

6 November 2006