Stories from 17 December 2007
Costa Rica: Banking Frustrations
Costa Rica en El Presente [es] writes about frustrations with Banco Nacional and writes about a response to an earlier blog post from bank officials.
South Africa: Tell us what Zuma has done
Mpumelelo is reporting from Polokwane, South Africa where the ANC is holding its historic conference: “Please Mbeki and Ngcuka, tell us what Zuma has done,” came the song from inside...
Slovenia: Urbanc Store Renovations
Jennifer Dorroh writes about renovations at Ljubljana’s Urbanc Store, a 104-year-old art nouveau landmark.
Slovenia: A Walk in Ljubljana
“Every now and then it really feels good to simply take a walk,” writes Dr. Filomena. And so she does walk around Ljubljana, taking pictures.
The Balkans: Kosovo War Inevitable?
Slovenian photographer Borut Peterlin does a photo story on a Serbian paramilitary group and leaves Kosovo and southern Serbia with a conviction that “another war in Kosovo is inevitable.”
Slovenia: Pepi Sekulic Honors Salih Mahmoud Osman
Adventures in Wheelville writes about and posts some picture from a Ljubljana exhibit by Pepi Sekulic, honoring Salih Mahmoud Osman, a “Sudanese human rights lawyer who has recently been awarded...
Slovenia: Miklavz, Božiček, and Dedek Mraz
Adventures in Wheelville writes: “It turns out that instead of just one plump and rosy-cheeked wintertime gift-giver, Slovenia has three jolly old men who come baring gifts during the holidays.”
Portugal: The best Portuguese blog 2007
“Welcome to the best blog in Portugal”. Bitaites [pt] celebrates having been chosen as the best national blog at the MBP07 and explains the reasons why they might have won...
Brazil: Respecting Bolivian immigrants
Sakamoto [pt] takes the International Migrants Day commemorations in São Paulo to write a long post reflecting on the situation of the many South American migrants, most of them Bolivians,...
Peru: Gratitude for Free Trade Agreement
Peru's Congress recently approved the Free-Trade Agreement with the United States. Juan Sheput of Mate Pastor [es] writes about a personal handwritten note from George W. Bush sent to former...
South Africa: Stormhoek's social media innovation
Andy is excited about Stormhoek innovation in social media: “Bloody hell. These guys KEEP innovating above the bar in the social media field. They've recently secured a distribution deal with...
Namibia: Are Scientologists a threat to Namibia?
Rob warns Namibians against the Scientologists: “Scientologists are a big threat to poorer nations and especially to a populus who will be more vulnerable to the scheming, cunning, seconhand car...
Trinidad & Tobago: Dancing Bamboo
Now Is Wow creates some interesting effects with her camera, bamboo and natural light.
Japan: Drop in Average Height
James from Japan Probe analyzes how the news about the decrease in average height of Japanese male was reported in Japan by comparing the situation with U.S.
Trinidad & Tobago: Give One, Get One?
“While there may well have been practical reasons to limit participation in the programme to the US and Canada, I find the idea philosophically distasteful and steeped in on-behalfism”: Caribbean...
South Korea: Corruption Scandal at the Eve of Election
Robert Koehler bets that the reinvestigation of presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak's involvement in the BBK scandal wouldn't change the election result because: nobody’s voting for Lee because he’s the “clean”...
St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Windies Win
“One could be forgiven for thinking that Christmas came a few days earlier”: Abeni celebrates a West Indies victory.
South Korea: Civil Organization to Expel All Illegal Aliens
CINA blogs about the establishment of a “civil organization” campaigning to expel all migrants without legal document.
Jamaica: Bought or Sold?
“When a Jamaican moves abroad…they learn the cynicism that comes with repeatedly being ‘sold”: Francis Wade relishes the freedom that has come with moving back home.
China: Mock Press Conference
Zhao Shilong blogs about a mock press conference organized by the Journalism department of Zhongshan University for training their students (zh).
Haiti: Restavek
Denise Green at Haiti Innovation blogs about the island's Restavek situation.
