9 January 2007

Stories from 9 January 2007

Bahamas: Junkanoo

Bahamians Larry Smith and Lynn Sweeting offer two perspectives on the Bahamian Christmas-time festival of Junkanoo.

10 January 2007

Antigua: Michael Perham

“Annoyed”, writing at the Talk Antigua blog, has serious reservations about the attention showered by Antigua upon Michael Perham, the 14-year old British boy who sailed solo across the Atlantic...

10 January 2007

Peru: Most Popular Blogs of 2006

Plaza de Armas at Christmas Marking the end of 2006, a few bloggers took up the task of pointing out what might be the most remarkable Peruvian weblogs of the...

9 January 2007

Sri Lanka: Muslims in the country

Groundviews has some insights about the Muslim community in Sri Lanka. “At the same time the Sri lankan government is going to enroll 3,000 Muslim people into the army regiment...

9 January 2007

Nepal: Cold Wave

The recent cold wave in Nepal meant hard times for many people. More at United We Blog! – “Four more people in Siraha died today due to the cold wave...

9 January 2007

Lebanon: Politics of Economy

The Lebanese blogosphere seems to be in a semi-lull this week. Nevertheless some bloggers reflected on topics such as the theory of evolution, the economical situation in Lebanon and the...

9 January 2007

India, Pakistan: Across the border

Kalpana Sahni writes on borders, culture and shared history. “These lines divide families living on either side of a river or they divide linguistic groups (the Punjabis, Kashmiris and Bengalis)....

9 January 2007

India: Tourism and Kashmir

~Kashmir~ on the mess that is Jammu and Kashmir's Tourism Department. “The Jammu and Kashmir Tourism will do just one thing: it will speed Kashmir’s ecological destruction because of its...

9 January 2007

India: Feni in Goa, Hic!

Goa Blog has a comprehensive post on Goa's local drink – Feni. “And the reason is not difficult to understand because feni is the name of the most popular local...

9 January 2007

Mexico: City Governments Inheriting Debt

“As new municipal and state governments took office in early December and this month, the many and various mayors and their staffs began taking inventories of what they had inherited...

9 January 2007

USA: Latino Netroots

Latino Netroots is a bilingual aggregator of what are described as “Progressive Latinos on the Net.” The aggregator seems to have been set up by Washington DC-based “DaBloguiMan” who blogs...

9 January 2007

Ecuador, Mexico: MacWorld 2007

The Macintosh Users Group of Ecuador [ES] and ALT1040 [ES] are just two of the hundreds of weblogs in Latin America that were following every last word uttered by Steve...

9 January 2007

Ecuador: Promoting Local Community

Carlos Correa Loyola observes that, although Ecuablogs.com lists nearly 1,000 registered weblogs, many are inactive or unrelated to Ecuador. Furthermore, only a handful are based in the Andean city of...

9 January 2007

Kazakhstan: Modern Art

Daniel Gulegos is an American artist who is temporary in Almaty, Kazakhstan and he blogs at Travelpod. While in Kazakhstan, Daniel explores the Kazakh contemporary art, meeting and collaborating with...

9 January 2007

Kazakhstan: The New PM

Sean Roberts reports on Karim Masimov, the man nominated to be Kazakhstan's new Prime Minister (who looks poised to be the country's first Uighur Prime Minister) and analyzes what his...

9 January 2007