Stories from 3 August 2007
Turkmenistan: Share your forecasts
Abdulgamid invites his readers to share their prognoses about what Turkmenistan will be like in 2021.
Trinidad & Tobago: Good Books
In the mood for a good page-turner? Trinidad-based blogger Jeremy Taylor shares a list of his “recent reads”.
Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados: Cozier Blasts ICC
West Indies Cricket Blog links to Tony Cozier's comments about the International Cricket Council's “inclination to bandit Allen Stanford’s money away from the struggling and desperate WICB and towards the ICC’s obscure and farcical tournaments.”
China: Bad time to invest West
“Timing is everything, seasoned investors tell us,” and EngagingChina blogger Geoff Nairn writes in ‘Bad Timing‘, “and the Chinese government's much-publicised recent decision to start investing directly in western companies has proved to be particularly badly timed.”
Jamaica: Less is More
Sometimes, less is more. Geoffrey Philp explains.
China: Are aluminum prices fixed?
Lou Schwartz at the Asia Business Intelligence blog manages a very detailed and clear analysis of the fluctuations in aluminum prices over the last fifty years in ‘Price-Fixing in China? Case-in-point: the Aluminum Industry‘.
Haiti: Simple Technology
“The teenagers in Haiti with rheumatic heart disease break our hearts when we examine their broken hearts.” Dr. John Carroll quotes The New England Journal of Medicine to support his view that simple technology can work wonders in resource-poor countries like Haiti.
Iran: A Photo Exposition
Mohammad Kheyrkhah informs us that he organised his new photo exposition in Tehran:Iranian Woman.You can see one of his photos here.
Cuba: The Church's Role
Uncommon Sense finds it “disheartening that the church in Cuba has not used its moral authority to advocate more forcefully for the cause of freedom.”
China: Baidu rolls out 1GB blogs
Chinese search engine Baidu has announced its Baidu Space bloggers now have 1GB of server space to work with, writes China Tech Stories blogger Mao Xianjia, making “hi.baidu one of the largest personal album service on the web.“
China: Nokia's Creative Commons infringement?
“Everybody can freely use my Flickr pictures under the Creative Commons license, and because of that they end up on many websites,” writes Shanghai-based blogger Marc van der Chris in ‘Nokia copyright infringement?,’ where he writes of finding one his photographs on the cellphone company's Europe site: “And amazingly they...
Iran:Workers support jailed worker activists
Kaargar says[Fa] that there will be several demonstrations, from 9th to 11th of August, in different countries, to ask for freedom of two jailed woker activists:Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi.Kaargar adds Iranian government continues its repression against workers.
Barbados: Price Fixing Scandal
“Virgin Atlantic and British Airways ILLEGALLY got together and decided to squeeze more money out of travelers to and from Barbados – and in so doing hurt our travel industry.” Barbados Free Press wonders, “What do you think that Barbados will do about it?”
Iran:no tears for criminals
Kourosh Ziabari says[Fa] he got surprised to see that some people are sorry for “criminals” or “thugs” who got executed recently.He says they were not political prisoners to be sorry for!
China: Net buzz trends for first half of 2007
Sam Flemming of the China Internet Word of Mouth blog has posted the first bi-annual review for 2007 from the consulting firm of the same name, noting a focus on three new areas: L+K+P IWOM Philosophy, Online Video Gains Foothold, and Netizens’ Online Collaboration.
Bahamas: Energy Policy
“So in the absence of an official Bahamian policy, what can WE do to promote energy security?” Larry Smith at Bahama Pundit thinks that “a little common sense will go a long way.”
Afghanistan: Hostage crisis background
Carl Robichaud publishes the answers he gave to a South Korean reporter covering some of the backgrounds to the current hostage crisis.
China: $100 laptops made here, just not sold
The US $100 laptops are being made in China, writes Shanghaiist‘s Mathew Seigal, and two hundred million people in this country earn less than one US dollar a day, so why hasn't the Chinese government gotten with the program? “It looks like Chinese children will only be able to get...
China: Motorbikes banned in Dongguan
“Today is the last first day of a month that motorcycles can legally ride the streets of Dongguan,” wrote manufacturing executive and blogger A. Bryson on August first. “Come September 1 they are banned.”
Cambodia: Net commentators react to Kem Sokha's new Human Rights Party
A new political party has been launched in Cambodia. Human Rights Party (HRP) is being fronted by activist Kem Sokha. Cambodians are commenting online on the new party and the emerging dynamics in the political space.
