Stories from 2 October 2007
China: Daughters At Home
Kanchai comments on a popular T.V drama, Daughters At Home, in his blog (zh). The story is about a happy family with three kids. However, such kind of ordinary happiness...
China: Coral Studio QQ Version
Coral Studio is a lab set up in Beijing Technology University. Recently a programmer has developed a QQ beta version that help the QQ user to get rid of the...
Bloggers’ Notes From Web2forDev Conference
Web2forDev is the first conference on participatory web for rural development, which took place from 25-27 September 2007 in Rome, Italy. Bloggers who were covering the event included African journalists who were blogging both in English and French at the Web2forDev blog.
Syria: Reflections from the Blogosphere
Ramadan is a period not only of fasting and restraint, but also of reflection, judging by posts from many Muslim bloggers. Syrians (whether Muslim or not) are no exception, taking this period to reflect upon philosophy, patriotism, and Ramadan itself, among other things, writes Jillian York.
Malawi: Doing business in Malawi
An inspiring story about starting a business in Malawi: “As Victor Gondwe was clearing the bush, many people around thought that the computer analyst just back from Seattle had lost...
Africa: The AfroSpear Carnival: Religion and Negritude
This is the Second AfroSpear Carnival dealing with the theme of religion and negritude: Two brave souls so far have dipped into this subject with honesty and clarity. First, Femigog...
Myanmar: List of Detainees and Letter From A 88 Generation Worker
Blogger Niknayman has a list of names and affiliations of over 300 monks and civilians who have been arrested by the Myanmar Military Regime. Many are from the National League...
Bangladesh: Bloggers demand release of detained cartoonist
Zafa Noor writes in E-Bangladesh: “It has been two weeks since Arifur Rahman’s cartoon “Naam” was published which prompted the Bangladesh police to take him to jail and lock him...
Trinidad and Tobago: Saving the Savannah, eight years on
Coffeewallah recalls an incident eight years ago, when activists protesting the paving of the Queen's Park Savannah in Port of Spain had a truckload of gravel dumped over them. “Unless...
Bahamas: More homeless people?
“There seems to have been an increase lately of people aimlessly wondering the streets,” writes Craig Butler at Bahama Pundit, as he contemplates the growing number of homeless people in...
Hong Kong: District Council
As the District council election is approaching, erynnyes from Those were the days wrote an article on the diminishing power of the district council in the past 10 years (zh)....
Japan: Rice Paddy Art
Edo from Pink Tentacle blogs pictures of rice paddy art in Inakadate village.
Bolivia: Four Year Blogging Anniversary
Miguel Buitrago celebrates four years of blogging at MABBlog about Bolivia and Bolivian politics.
Guatemala: Immigrant's Earnings Seized as He Returned Home
Marisa Treviño of Latina Lista provides her thoughts on the battle waged by Pedro Zapeta, an undocumented Guatemalan immigrant in the U.S. whose earnings were seized by federal officials as...
Peru: Superman at Machu Picchu
Superman meditates at the
Russia: “Putin Wants To Be PM”
Mark MacKinnon and Sean Guillory write about yet another one of Vladimir Putin's surprise moves.
