10 November 2006

Stories from 10 November 2006

Nigeria: remembering Ken Saro Wiwa

  10 November 2006

Ken Saro Wiwa is remembered today: “It is important to note that the militancy that is taking place in the Niger Delta today has evolved out of the original non-violent struggle begun by Ken Saro Wiwa and the Ogoni people in 1990 and the failure of successive Nigerian regimes together...

Iran:Election in USA and Iran

  10 November 2006

Hanif Mazroi says US President understood the message of voters and replaced Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld by Gates. The blogger adds now compare USA with Iran where even legal political parties have a lot of difficulties to be present in election [Fa].

North Korea: migrant labour

  10 November 2006

R. Elgin in Marmot's Hole discusses about the North Korean migrant labour conditions in Czech, who are producing luxurious car to support the North Korea's economy.

Japan: letter to youtube

  10 November 2006

Adamu wrote a letter to youtube hoping that the company can remove sexy videos of 12-year-old Japanese actress Saaya Irie.

Japan: birthrate

  10 November 2006

Alexpappas in Japundit discusses about the situation of falling birthrate in Japan, a simple solution is to open up immigration.

Hong Kong: cantonese soundbite

  10 November 2006

Alex was surprised by both the Hong Kong reporter and Margaret Chan, the newly elected WHO Director-General's performance in the official press conference (zh): a Hong Kong reporter insisted to repeat an earlier (English) question and asked Chan to reply in Cantonese in order to get a “soundbite” eventhough the...