Stories from 2 March 2008
Afghanistan: The Perils of Afghan Exclusion
SunLeaf opines that Afghanistan is increasingly becoming an appealing “commodity” of the world politics, whereby the least visible face is that of an Afghan and the least talked about topic is the priorities of Afghans.
China: The truth of Nanjie Village
Nanjie Village, a small village in Henan Province and once the so-called ‘red billionaire village’ and ‘Republic of Chairman Mao’, is recently revealed by Chinese media that it is totally a phoney. Changping[zh] compares it with the fake tiger photo last year arguing that it indicates the bankruptcy of planned...
China: ‘Political accident’ derived from a photo
Wang Lili, a 52-year-old journalist working at Tongzhou Times for 4 years, got fired by his company merely because of a picture he shot and published in which the sheriff of Tongzhou is making a work report in People's Congress. According to bloggerQian Liexian[zh], the official statement about Wang's dismissal...
Russia: Remembering Deportation Victims; “Dzhigit Day”
Ingush blogger kaloy writes about mourning the victims of the 1944 mass deportations by Stalin - and about celebrating manhood in Ingushetia.
