Stories from 5 February 2007
Poland: Crime Stats
The beatroot and his readers discuss crime in Poland.
Poland: Radek Sikorski is Out
The beatroot and his readers are discussing the resignation of Poland's defense minister Radek Sikorski: “So it appears that the government will be losing the only internationally respected politician it has.”
Moldova: English Olympiad
Adventures in Moldova posts essays that his Moldovan students wrote for the English Olympiad held at their school and explains why the kids shouldn't be blamed for their not-so-good English: “When taken as an aggregate, my school has some of the worst performance in English in the county and Moldova....
Moldova: Junior Judo Stars
Adventures in Moldova writes about “two village kids from the poorest country in Europe” who did extremely well at the judo “Olympic Hopes” tournament in Kyiv, Ukraine: “In Eugen and Mihail's under-46 kg weight class, there were 34 boys. Our boys not only made our village proud, but they should...
Moldova: Economy Getting Better?
Mihai Moscovici doubts whether an average Moldovan would feel the reported growth of the country's economy.
Czech Republic: Ethnic Kazakh Minister
Leila of neweurasia.net writes about one of the four Green Party ministers in the newly-formed Czech government – Dzhamila Stehlikova, an ethnic Kazakh born in Almaty, Kazakhstan: “Appointed as a minister without portfolio, pani Stehlikova is responsible for the policies in the sphere of ethnic minorities and human rights.”
Dubai Shopping Festival
The annual Dubai Shopping Festival is making headlines around the world .. but Secret Dubai seems to be turning green with some of the publicity he is seeing in his own turf.
Barbados: Foreign security force
Barbados Free Press views the manner in which the Barbados government plans on “ramming through” some last-minute legislation permitting foreign nationals to become part of the security apparatus being put in place for the 2007 Cricket World Cup as a warning sign “of a corruption of democratic principles that –...
Dubai: Jobs Scam
Looking for a job in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates? Perhaps you should read this first.
UAE: Student Vlogs
“Where can you find video logs, unusual commentary, rare links of articles you never came across, and really creative Arab students all at the same spot?,” asks Bahraini blogger Esraa, who leads us to an interesting site by Arab Vloggers.
Bahrain: Genetically Engineered Food Alert!
Bahrain-based blogger Haitham Sabbah raises the alarm about the presence of genetically engineered food, which is not labelled, floating about in the markets of Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and even Bahrain.
Guyana: Where's the Indo-Guyanese culture?
MediaCritic notes a bias against Indo-Guyanese culture in a newspaper column purporting to report on Guyana's cultural scene.
Libyan Bloggers in a Week
The past week has been quite interesting as Libyan bloggers discussed the relative merits of a parallel universal, virtual reality or a chance at a Second Life which you could enter anytime you want if you were bored with your current one. This brings the movies Vanilla Sky or even...
Indonesia: Floods that Paralysed the Capital and its People
Indonesia again gets international media intention for yet another natural disaster. This time the capital Jakarta has gone through the worst floods in five years. The floods paralysed everything – the business activities, its people movement and day-to-day government activities. Picture from Rifle's Flickr Page Around 340,000 of Jakarta's population...
