Stories from 2 February 2007
Russia: Conversation With Litvinenko's Widow, Part 12
Installment #12 of Marina Litvinenko's interview has been translated and posted at A Step At A Time.
Serbia: Kosovo Holiday
One Missionary in Kosovo writes about the International Day of Prayer and Fasting for Kosova, marked Jan. 31.
Russia: Photo-Marathon For Children With Cancer
On Jan. 27, 2007, the third annual photo-marathon was held in one of the wards (Onco-Haematology 16) of the Children’s Clinical Hospital in Moscow. It was organized by the International...
Kyrgyzstan: Plov Recipes
The Golden Road to Samarqand posts two “official” recipes for Kyrgyz plov, a rice dish with onions, meat, and carrots.
Tajikistan: Roundup
Vadim rounds up the Tajik blogosphere at neweurasia.
Uzbekistan: Phony NGO
neweurasia looks at the World Bank's implementing partner on a project to promote civil society in Uzbekistan.
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.
Armenia: Wimax
Burnell writes with excitement about plans to install wimax in Armenia.
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...
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...
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....
Africa: separating Africa from the Middle East
White African on the 2007 Bloggies, “There is a category for “Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog”. Someone tell me why the hell people cannot seem to separate Africa from...
Africa: will China teach Africa how to fish?
Writing about Chinese investment and technology transfer in Africa, Jennifer Brea asks: will China teach Africa how to fish?
Nigeria: politics of census in Nigeria
In a thought provoking piece, One Hundred and Forty Million: For every French Person, there are two Nigerians, Chippla discusses the politics of census in Nigeria.
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,...
China: ethically inspiring TV series during prime time
Peijin from Shanghaiist puts together reports on TV management: From February until August, Chinese TV “golden hours” (5-8pm) programming is going to go on moral diet, shedding excess and unwanted...
China: statistics on love and sexual relation
Li yin he blogs the statistics on an online opinion poll on the difference between woman and man's attitudes towards love and sexual relation (zh). The data shows 37% of...
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...
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...
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...
