7 December 2006

Stories from 7 December 2006

Kyrgyzstan: Status Revision

Kyrgyz Report says that the shooting of a citizen of Kyrgyzstan by a guard at the US airbase in the country has prompted the country's president to call for a...

8 December 2006

Mongolia: Respect & Customer Service

Using an experience from a hotel in Beijing, Tom Terry discusses how Mongolian authorities could have combined realism and respect for the public in their bungled recent hijacking drill.

8 December 2006

Ukraine: New Budget

It doesn't look like Ukrainian legislators are going to be as poor as the rest of the citizens when they retire: Foreign Notes reports on the new budget.

7 December 2006

Belarus: CNN Available Online

CNN is no longer available in Belarus, writes TOL's Belarus Blog, but “as long as Internet spreads through the country, blocking news channels would be useless…”

7 December 2006

Serbia: Kosovo's Future

Wu Wei links to “the most detailed and authoritative prediction of what Martti Ahtisaari is going to say about Kosovo's status.” Neretva River wonders whether Russia's veto would plunge Kosovo...

7 December 2006

Ukraine: Scam

Music and Life – Everywhere! almost becomes victim of a popular scam in Kyiv – and doesn't realize it until much later!

7 December 2006

Mexico: The Britney Spears Upskirt Effect

Mexican blogger Eduardo Arcos comments on the incredible web influence of Britney Spears [ES] and her lack of certain clothing garments: “she slipped into the top five most-searched keywords among...

7 December 2006

India: Bengal, culture and passion

Great Bong writes on the Bengali culture and passion, with some very sharp words on the Bengali attitude. “Her weapons are rhetoric, theatrics, bandhs, disruption and vandalism. In that she...

7 December 2006

India: On kissing and the movies

A kiss in a movie between two stars causes quite a row. Jabberwock reflects on kissing and Bollywood. “What the self-appointed morality-keepers are objecting to, dear and earnest HT City,...

7 December 2006