14 March 2008

Stories from 14 March 2008

Cuba: No Restrictions?

Child of the Revolution is hesitant to regard the news that “Cubans will be able to buy a range of electronic consumer goods without restrictions” as a sign of political...

14 March 2008

Guyana: Threads that Bind

“Sometimes we life is one unending seam, same colour, same strand, same stitch, not varying in size. Then suddenly the thread snap and…”: Guyana-Gyal discovers a “delightful variation” from her...

14 March 2008

Ukraine: A Hacker's Party

Orange Ukraine links to the Washington Post's Security Fix blog for its coverage of a new Ukrainian party founded by a hacker: the Internet Party of Ukraine.

14 March 2008

Kazakhstan: Pictures from the West

Mikhail is on the road again with his photo-camera, offering a breath-taking set of pictures from Mangyshlak, a mountaneous peninsula on the Caspian Sea, Western Kazakhstan.

14 March 2008

Turkmenistan: The Meeting of Two Khans

Maciula analyzes the reasons for and the outcomes of the Turkmen president's visit to the neighboring Uzbekistan, which was arranged with great ceremony although tangible results of the visit were...

14 March 2008

China: SARFT's Insanity

Wang Xiaofeng tries to explain SARFT’ insanity by looking into its unrestricted administrative power and the history of censorship against cultural workers.

14 March 2008

China: Nansha Oil Refinery Campus

Buchong visited the planned construction site of an giant oil refinery campus at Nansha, a river mouth peninsular at Zhujiang delta [zh]. The villagers are looking forwarded for the construction,...

14 March 2008

Ecuador: Google Maps and Flood Zones

Christian Espinosa of Cobertura Digital [es] provides an update on the project of using Google Maps to show and provide more information of the areas affected by the heavy flooding...

14 March 2008