13 August 2007

Stories from 13 August 2007

Angola: life-affirming dance in Angola

  13 August 2007

Kilandukilu is a dance group from Angola, which brings together the old and the new: “Kilandukilu was founded by a group of friends in the Maculusso municipality of Luanda twenty-one years ago, bridging traditional Angolan beats with break-dance, pop and even funk. “These are works basically about our history, they...

China: Chongqing home buyers cheated

  13 August 2007

Don't mess with Chinese homeowners. A property development company in one central Chinese city tried backing out of an agreement which left empty-handed people who thought they had already bought a new home and led to angry and destructive retaliation, including clashes with police that netizens are saying turned violent.

St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Nepotism?

  13 August 2007

Blogging from St. Vincent, Abeni examines the recent appointment of the Prime Minister's son to the post of UN Ambassador: “Never in my life have I seen such a calling out of troops to present and defend any ambassadorial candidate before.”

Jamaica: Home Grown

  13 August 2007

“Much better, (and cheaper) I think, is to let the child stay and then apply as a full-fledged Caribbean product, rather than one that is a culture shocked creature, being neither fish nor fowl”: Francis Wade makes a case for not sending Jamaican kids to high school abroad.

Barbados: Cemetery Bulldozed

  13 August 2007

“Almost 300 years of history erased with the expenditure of a little diesel fuel and the movement of a few levers and pedals”: Barbados Free Press calls for accountability in the destruction of the island's historical Moravian cemetery.

China: Harmful Information

  13 August 2007

William long has translated a government regulation, Computer Information Network and Internet Security, Protection and Management Regulations, which has a very clear definition of “harmful information”.

China: Giant Cat-fish?

  13 August 2007

Kenneth Tan from Shanghaiist reported on the discovery of a giant man-eating cat-fish in a Guangdong reservoir. However some netizens said that the mutant cat-fish may in fact be a whale shark. See for yourself.

China: Baidu Kids Version

  13 August 2007

Jason Li from Virtual China found out that Baidu has launched a Baidu Kids Version, it is something related with the Chinese Internet market.

Iran:Esfandiari and Tajbakhsh will have some writing to do!

Omid Memarian writes that Hassan Haddad, Security Deputy District Attorney of Tehran stated that investigations about two Iranian-American jailed scholars, Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh, cases has completed. He added that these two will have some writing to do upon completion of which further decisions will be made about them.Omid...

Guatemala: The Role of the Transit Police

  13 August 2007

Luis Figueroa of Carpe Diem [ES] thinks that the Municipal Transit Police in Guatemala spends too much time chasing after street fruit vendors and not regulating real dangers like overstuffed trucks.