5 October 2007

Stories from 5 October 2007

India: A day in Calcutta

The author of I, Me, Myself finds himself in Calcutta and offers glimpses of the city, even as he compares it to other cities in India.

5 October 2007

Burma, India: Midnight Raid

An update from Burma on the current situation. “raided many monasteries, they visited house to house around mid-night and picked up whom they suspected as the protest leaders in Rangoon”...

5 October 2007

Russia, Ukraine: Gas, Again

Wu Wei writes about the most recent gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine: “Now it is threatening LOUDLY in public to cut off gas to Ukraine (and thus inevitably to...

5 October 2007

In a new blog, Neojaponisme, W. David Marx reports on suppressed reports of pedophilia against a well-known Japanese producer, Johnny Kitagawa. It's a good read on the state of the...

5 October 2007

Barbados: Visiting the Concorde

Notes from the Margin reports on a visit to the decommissioned Concorde supersonic jet preserved at the Barbados airport (there were once weekly Concorde flights between London and Barbados).

5 October 2007

Russia: A Protestant Country?

According to Window on Eurasia, “Russia could become a Protestant country, at least in terms of the number of practicing faithful, for a few decades until ongoing demographic developments transform...

5 October 2007

Japan: Nova and Teacher Union

David Markle from Japan Probe picks up the Nova (English school) financial crisis issue and discusses the need for teachers to join union.

5 October 2007