Stories from 8 June 2007
Google in Korea
How does Google do in Korea? Trend25 discusses how Google started off behind in Korea but is rapidly catching up to local players. [ko]
Popularity of a blog
TF Seoul offers a chart for measuring the popularity of a blog over time, and measures his own.[ko]
Barbados: Government Responds to Police/Media Clash
In response to government statements following a police/media clash outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados Free Press writes: “Journalists are not ‘ordinary citizens’ when they are covering public events. A free media is a defender of citizens’ rights and freedoms and the police should realise this if they cared about our...
Collection of images from anti-smoking campaigns around the world
Z Rock talks about quitting smoking and offers a collection of images from anti-smoking campaigns around the world. [ko]
Bahamas: Is Fair Trade Fair?
“I am a believer in Free Trade. Not trade with more bureaucracy, but mutually agreed trade between parties. You have something to sell, I want to buy it and we agree a price for the satisfactory goods.” WeblogBahamas.com says that the principles of Free Trade may not always be so...
Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago: UK Travel Advisory
In response to the UK issuing a travel advisory about Trinidad and Tobago in the wake of the JFK terror plot, Bajan Reporter says: “I am not saying that anywhere is peaceful and idyllic, but to jump on a bandwagon because the American media have found a few fringe lunatics…is...
Peru: Five Blogs, Five Posts
The five blogs featured in this Peruvian blog round-up have little in common except for the fact that they are well written and are interesting, which are two ingredients necessary to capture the readers' attention.
Taiwan: Matsu Temple
Michael Turton blogs some great photos of Matsu Temple in Daija, with some background about the significance of Matsu culture.
Hong Kong: The Fall
Fongyun describes the recent comment of Wu Bangguo, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, on Hong Kong's autonomy as “the Fall of Hong Kong”. As the Central government has already given autonomy to Hong Kong through the Basic Law, Wu's comment in reaffirming Central government say in Hong Kong politics...
Hong Kong: Save Wikipedia Declaration
Tiney protested in his blog against the Chinese Wikipedia policy in deleting items because of “lack of popularity / significance” (zh). The debate is triggered from the debate about an item on “Fuk-guy always have yours” (a popular video spoofing Hong Kong government's propaganda video “Hong Kong always have yours”.
China: Google and Baidu
Kuangfeng comments on an evaluation report of google and baidu's service in China (zh). The report shows that google has provided much better service than baidu, but it has lost in the market. The reason is mainly because of various compromises that google has to make for entering China market,...
China: Property market
In the past few days, the stock market went down because of state regulation, however, the property market is going up. Zengying points out that the property market is more difficult to regulate than the stock market as people consider property as the primary investment (zh).
China: Flickr photos cannot be displayed
Bingfeng reports that flickr is filtered in China: to be more precisely, the site was not 100% blocked, you can still get most of the content (like the title of photos) except that all photos can not be displayed.
Iran:Iranian government cancels women's football game in Berlin
Haji Kensington says [Fa]that Iranian government cancels Iranian women's football game in Berlin.The blogger asks why Ahmadinejad,Iranian president, is so afraid of cultural exchange? You can find an article about this story in English with a photo here.
Iran: Why Iranians use the term of Persia?
Plateau writes that most Iranians in using the term “Persia” nowadays want to distance themselves from the Islamic Republic Regime of (Iran) and the likes of Ahmadinejad, in the eyes of those non-Iranians who cannot or will not make a distinction between Iranian People and the despicable regime ruling Iran.The...
Kazakhstan: Aliev Intrigue
Bonnie Boyd reports on some of the business-related intrigue in the conflict between Kazakhstan's president and his son-in-law, Rakhat Aliyev.
Tajikistan: Hyatt Dushanbe
Vadim reports on the announcement that Hyatt will be opening a hotel in Dushanbe, and he says that he hopes this will encourage local hoteliers to improve their services.
Armenia: Football Victory
Blogrel writes about Armenia's surprising victory over Poland in the Euro 2008 football qualifiers.
Caucasus: Tourism Index
Social Science in the Caucasus summarizes how the Caucasus states fare on the World Economic Forum's new tourism index.
Afghanistan: RAWA's History
Ronin says a fellow blogger has it wrong on RAWA, and corrects the record.
Iraq: Oil Workers on Strike
Issandr El Amrani, from Egypt, updates us on the latest regarding a strike by oil workers in Iraq.
