12 January 2007

Stories from 12 January 2007

Bermuda: Bloggers featured in local paper

Bermudian Christian Dunleavy links to a Royal Gazette article entitled “Have you joined Bermuda's blogosphere,” which features four of the island's most popular bloggers (himself included). Philip Wells, one of...

13 January 2007

Cuba: Chino-Cubano

Following on a post in which she wondered about the existence of an authentic Caribbean-Chinese cuisine, TriniFood learns of the existence of “Chino-Cubano” (Chinese-Cuban) cuisine.

13 January 2007

Russia: Indigenous Peoples of the North

Den’ Olenevoda (Reindeer-Breeder's Day), celebrated in March 2006, in Kazym (Ugra, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) – a photo set by Flickr user ugraland/Irina Kazanskaya While Moscow is braving an atypically snowless...

13 January 2007

Cameroon: meaningful elections?

Blogging at the sub-Saharan Africa Roundtable, Evan Weinberger wonders whether Cameroon is about to have free and fair elections, “After two more seriously flawed presidential elections, the last in 2004,...

13 January 2007

Nigeria: debating census results

Akin joins the debate about the Nigerian 2006 census, “The Nigerian blog boards have been rife with disputing about the validity of the 2006 census as many are derisively rejecting...

13 January 2007

Mexico: News Summary

Ana Maria Salazar has a useful roundup of the day's news in Mexico to send us into the weekend including a note on a private meeting between Eduardo Medina Mora,...

12 January 2007

Honduras: Hondutel Scares Away Competition

Honduras Daily News has put together a bilingual post (Spanish) which accuses former state-owned telecommunications monopoly Hondutel of breaking “into TTI (Tropico Telephone and Internet) offices, in the center of...

12 January 2007

Costa Rica: Talk of crime

Noting the big increase in expat talk about crime in Costa Rica My Dos Colones links to some recent (and depressing) stories about just that.

12 January 2007

Iran:News in country and outside country

Mohammad Ali Abtahi,reformist politician says outside country,news about Iran are on the first page of newspapers.News talks about sanctions againts Iranian banks and UN resolution about Iran.The blogger adds inside...

12 January 2007

Iran:A Boxing Match Between USA and Iran

Digital Klechinkof says the best way to impersonate the situation with Iran’s nuclear affairs is to consider a box-ring[Fa].Then, Iran and America will be two boxers (obviously with different gestures...

12 January 2007