2 February 2007

Stories from 2 February 2007

Kyrgyzstan: Plov Recipes

The Golden Road to Samarqand posts two “official” recipes for Kyrgyz plov, a rice dish with onions, meat, and carrots.

2 February 2007

Uzbekistan: Phony NGO

neweurasia looks at the World Bank's implementing partner on a project to promote civil society in Uzbekistan.

2 February 2007

Georgia: Electronic Music

Levan says that electronic music is very popular in Tbilisi at the moment and gives links to a few of the artists he finds interesting.

2 February 2007

Armenia: Demo for Zhirayr Sefilyan

Onnik Krikorian reports on a demonstration in support of Zhirayr Sefilyan, a critic of the Armenian government who was arrested in December on charges of planning a coup. Onnik says...

2 February 2007

Fairly tale in Chile: Small Giant

The famous French “Small Giant” arrived to Santiago, Chile. Many citizens gathere to see this in the centre of the capital. Claudia (ES) introduces us to the concept: Cuenta la...

2 February 2007

Cambodia: Be the first to tell

Too often, most people, want to be the first to be informed of events and situation happening around them or anywhere else in the other of parts of the world....

2 February 2007

What is Madagascar to Americans?

Malagasy aty California explains (Fr) Americans’ challenges with Madagascar's geography: “I often had to confirm that Madagascar is not close to the Middle East, that it is not a city,...

2 February 2007

Hong Kong: I'll get the job done

Donald Tsang has finally launched his election campaign for the Chief Executive (2007-2012). As the new Chief Executive (CE) would be selected by 800 selective committee members dominated by pro-China...

2 February 2007

Japan: forced eviction of homeless

Kamapat blogs about the recent protest of Osaka's homeless against city government's forced eviction plan (jp). There is an online petition organized by rootless.org. Interlocals.net has collected more background on...

2 February 2007

Argentina: Buenos Aires Blog Roundup

Alan Patrick of the newly named Buenos Aires Argentina Guide has already put together his eighth Buenos Aires blog roundup, including mention of a recent Clarín article about the boom...

2 February 2007