4 April 2007

Stories from 4 April 2007

Cambodia: Election Losers Joining Forces

Details are Sketchy comments on the news that two of the worst performers in the recent commune elections in Cambodia, ,Prince Norodom Ranariddh and opposition leader Sam Rainsy are joining...

5 April 2007

Cambodia: Origins of a Cambodian Dish

Phnomenon is trying to trace the origins of a Cambodian dish called amok trei . At the risk of being “pistol-whipped by a motivated official from the Ministry of Tourism...

5 April 2007

Bolivia: Joan Baez and Mimi Farina

Professor Zero, in her search for Peruvian cuecas, discovers a YouTube video of Joan Baez and sister Mimi Farina singing a Bolivian hymn written by Apolinar Camacho at a performance...

5 April 2007

Tajikistan: Bringing Treasure Home

At neweurasia, Vadim reports that Tajikistan's government is trying to convince the London Museum to return the Oxus Treasure, an important collection of Achaemenid Persian metalwork.

5 April 2007

Iraq: On Life in a War Zone

Iraqi blogger Mama shares with us the horrors of living in war-torn Iraq here. “To see smashed car, due to explosion ,bomb or other accident, became familiar to anyone go...

4 April 2007

Iraq: Iran Attack Rumours

Blogger and journalist Christopher Allbritton, who covers Iraq, disputes newspaper reports that the US will attack Iran on Friday. “Don’t believe it. I’m due to be on board the USS...

4 April 2007

Egypt: Hypocritical Historians

Egyptian blogger Zeinobia accuses historians from time immemorial of being hypocrites. “Really we are since the beginning of history big fat hypocrites who only mention their rulers success but not...

4 April 2007

Sri Lanka: Human Rights

groundviews on the regime's defenses about human rights violation wearing thin. “There is no escaping the conclusion that the regime is bent on a military solution to the conflict and...

4 April 2007

India: Veiled Racism

My Useless Banter on veiled racism. “It makes me so angry when people say racist things to you pretending as if they're not racist at all, and that infact because...

4 April 2007

Pakistan: Lawyers Rally

Metroblogging Islamabad on a rally to protest President Musharraf's removal of Pakistan's Chief Justice. “The rally in Islamabad on Tuesday was the biggest street protest yet in the capital in...

4 April 2007

Whiskey We've Got, But Where's the Meat?

Carnicería by Luis Carlos Diaz Venezuela is one of the principal oil-exporting countries of the world. However, petroleum is not edible and, lamentably, Venezuela's national food industry is not able...

4 April 2007

Nepal: Protest Rally

Photographs from a rally protesting the Gaur massacre at United We Blog! “The focus of the event might have been about the violence in Gaur, but the mood was definitely...

4 April 2007

Bhutan: Movies in Thimpu City

Visit Bhutan on the only theatre in Thimpu cities that screens movies. “Well, I can still remember the last time i saw a Bhutan movie in the only picture hall...

4 April 2007