17 March 2008

Stories from 17 March 2008

Armenia: Moving Forward?

Unzipped comments on an op-ed co-penned by president-elect Serge Sargsyan and former parliamentary speaker Artur Baghdasarian published by the influential Washington Post. The piece is in response to another op-ed...

17 March 2008

Japan: Crackdown on File Sharing?

Danny Choo writes about an announcement that Japanese ISPs are going to forcibly cut off users who share files over the Internet, pointing out differences between English-language and Japanese-language coverage...

17 March 2008

Uzbekistan: Foreign Policy Perturbations

The Uzbek regime's violent suppression of the uprising in Andijan in May 2005 was a turning point in the country's foreign policy. The government did not allow EU to investigate...

17 March 2008

Bermuda: Freedom of Information

When it comes to Freedom of Information in Bermuda, Vexed Bermoothes says: “Sorry, press conferences full of spin, manipulated statistics, and avoidance of substance do not equal a transparent government.”

17 March 2008

Jamaica: Dancehall

The recent Global Reggae Conference, held at the University of the West Indies, has Agostinho Pinnock blogging about whether or not dancehall music is Jamaica's “solution to civil society”.

17 March 2008

Japan: Tibet Tibet

Blogger and artist Takami Toshio writes about the Japanese film Tibet Tibet [ja] at his blog Radical Imagination. He points out the similarity in perspectives between the director, who is...

17 March 2008

Iran:9 more magazines were banned

Iranian authorities banned 9 more magazines yesterday. Zannevesht says [Fa] they (authorities) have power and are against these things (media). The blogger writes “I was just reading an interesting article...

17 March 2008

Japan: Support for Tibet

As fires rage on in the streets of Lhasa, bloggers in another part of the world have been anxiously following developments in Tibet with open eyes and open ears. Over the weekend, as mainstream media in Japan presented what many criticized as toned-down coverage of ongoing events in Lhasa, the word "Tibet" climbed to number one on Japanese blog search engines with thousands of entries largely in support of the uprising.

17 March 2008

Tanzania: To quit or not to quit?

Pernille is a well-known blogger from Denmark. She entered the African blogosphere scene when she started working in Uganda and blogging at “I've Left Copenhagen for Uganda”. She is now lives in Tanzania and blogs under a new name, Louder than Swahili. Last week she decided to put her blog on stand-by following comments she received via email, SMS, and phone calls, which made her uncomfortable.

17 March 2008

Azerbaijan: Karabakh Resolution

Archuk's blog comments on the success of an Azerbaijani-sponsored resolution adopted by the United Nations condemning the Armenian occupation of territory inside the republic and recognizing the territorial integrity of...

17 March 2008

Armenia: I am Karabakhtsi

In light of divisions between ethnic Armenians from Armenia proper and the self-declared [Armenian] Republic of Nagorno Karabakh which were exploited and further encouraged by the opposition during last month's...

17 March 2008

Georgia: Sports Ambassadors

Archuk's blog recounts conversations with English football fans and concludes that for any country to have a good image abroad they must first have sports and pop stars to export....

17 March 2008

Africa: Hope Supersedes All

Women love to share their experiences and express themselves, but no clock will wait for them to sit and share every detail with each other - not even if they do it on their blogs. Life must go on.

17 March 2008