Stories from 1 February 2008
Barbados: Press pays attention to blogs
A leading Barbados newspaper runs an editorial on “The Blogging Phenomenon”; Living in Barbados offers an analysis of the coverage.
Trinidad and Tobago: Reading Andy Ganteaume
Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp takes at look at the recently published memoirs of Trinidadian cricketer Andy Ganteaume — who scored a century in his one and only Test match, 60...
Trinidad and Tobago: Carnival art
Trinidad's art galleries are filled with Carnival-themed work right now, says SexyPink, but is it just aimed at tourist dollars? “We have to reach inside ourselves and pull out much...
Barbados: Police ignoring drug dealers?
Barbados police go after drug users, including tourists, but ignore the dealers, says Barbados Free Press. Why?
Japan: Snow Creatures
Edo posts some photos of snow creatures with Japanese characteristic.
China: Traditional Tibetan Song
Michael blogs his experience as a voluntary teacher in Jinyuan. He also posts a video with his students singing traditional Tibetan song.
Kyrgyzstan: Ombudman statistics and elections
GenderStan reports on the increased concerns over the Kyrgyzstan's Ombudsman office, as local women’s NGOs are uniting against Ombudman’s initiatives and many other NGOs complaining about lack of understanding between...
Kazakhstan: U.S. Ex-President Clinton Involved in a Money-Related Scandal
Josh Foust reports on an article in The New York Times, which reveals Bill Clinton's involvement in a suspiciously easy uranium mining deal between Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev and a...
China: Premier Wen Jiabo's Tear
Buliaoyuan listed out the occasion when premier Wen Jiabo shed tear because of people's suffering. Then the blogger points out that it is about time for Wen to visit Bobo...
Young citizen journalists getting into the act in Kolkata
Last time we featured the Neighborhood Diaries project, participants from Kolkata’s slums were learning more about their neighborhood. In this week's feature we read their profiles of local characters and find out more about their daily lives. The weekly workshop also got more interesting with enactments of skits regarding their neighborhood's problems and the brainstorming of solutions.
Japan: Imai Noriaki
At The Westerner's Fear of the Neonsign, calligraphykid writes about the experiences of freelance journalist and blogger Imai Noriaki, who became famous in 2004 as one of three Japanese to...
Iraq: Hail Storm and Work
Neurotic Iraqi Wife describes a day which started with a hail storm in this post. She also writes about an outstanding colleague, who wants to leave Iraq.
UAE: Little Girls Suffer
“I'm rather pleased to see that the UAE is formally addressing the incidence of child rape and molestation and has proposed this 12 step initiative,” writes teacherlady, who posts the...
Russia: “All Snow is in Samara!”
Inspired by Amira Al Hussaini's earlier post on the cold spell in the Middle East, Veronica Khokhlova does a roundup of the Volga region bloggers' reactions to (and their photos of) the record snowfall that paralyzed the city of Samara and trapped hundreds of cars on the Samara-Ufa highway last week, forcing local authorities to declare state of emergency.
MENA: Let it Snow ..
After a lull in the weather, it's back to cold and snow in some parts of the Middle East and North Africa. This time, bloggers were better equipped and had their cameras on standby.