Stories from 5 June 2008
Trinidad & Tobago: Hurricane Season
Caribbean Beat Blog has the 411 on this year's hurricane season.
Cuba: Prison Protest
Uncommon Sense blogs about the reported quelling of a protest by guards at Cuba's Combindado de Guantánamo prison “that started after a political prisoner tried to inform a human rights...
Barbados, Bermuda, U.S.A.: What Now?
“Now that Obama has the nomination…comes for me the real test. If Obama becomes president he will be plunged into real politics and the needs of national and international balance”:...
Bermuda: Capital Punishment
“There is a group on Facebook who want Bermuda to put Capital Punishment back on the books”: IMHO.bm weighs in.
China: Who Should be Thankful?
The CCTV kept showing clips on earth victims expressing thanks to the government. Guo yu hua, an anthopologist pointed out that the government should thank Chinese people instead as they...
Japan: Death Art
Chiemi from Pink Mag blogs about an art exhibition on death theme. The writer inteviews the gallery owner Narutoshi Sekine about this art category.
Japan: Photograph Memorial Service and Festival
Ampontan introduces a Shinto rite called photograph memorial service and festival hold by the Ozaka Shinto shrine.
Japan: Haunting Beauty
Edo from Pink Tectacle introduces a digital art genre by Yoshitaka Kawakami. Most of the works are about haunting look of school girls. The artist's gallery is here.
Japan: OpenWeb.Asia
Serkan Toto blogs about the openweb.asia project which is designed to be a network of premium blogs written in English that deal with IT, Tech and web stuff coming from...
South Korea: Protest Marathon Against Beef Import
CINA blogs about the protest marathon against the importation of U.S beef. The biggest mobilization would be in June 10.
Pressuring China to build freedom in Myanmar
Veteran Myanmar activists have set up a website, 8-8-08 for Burma, to pressure China to use its “unique leverage” on the ruling junta to help save lives and build freedom...
Singapore blogger arrested
Blogger Gopalan Nair was arrested by the Singapore police for insulting a a public servant, as reported by RTS.
Malaysia cuts fuel subsidies
Friends of According to Izzat is supportive of the Malaysian government decision to cut fuel subsidies but the blogger could not explain why gasoline price should increase by 40 percent...
Thailand: Protesters want the Prime Minister to resign
Soraj's Weblog comments on the mounting protest actions in Thailand today: “Watching the demonstration is like watching soap operas. Same old plots, same old endings.” Will Yaryan also blogs about...
Medical mission in Laos
Lao Voices blogs about the medical mission conducted by a Japanese NGO in a remote province in Laos.
Brunei Street Rollerblading Competition
Surkrew announces the winners of the Brunei Street Rollerblading Competition. Z-crew also blogged about the same topic.
Kyrgyzstan: Someone is Relaxing, Someone is Fighting
Undoubtedly, the meeting of the Kyrgyz bloggers became the most under discussion event of the Kyrgyz blogosphere in the second half of May. 27 bloggers met and even the bad...
Kazakhstan: Did Kazakhstan Give the Election to Obama?
Joshua Foust opines on the Kazakhstan connection in a Clinton affair, which subsequently had an undermining effect on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
Afghanistan: Relatively Measuring Success
Joshua Foust reflects on an argument that May was the most violent month in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
Hong Kong: 64 Art Action at Time Square
A group of artists performed at Time Square to memorize June 4. Tinywest posted a short video at inmediahk.net on their performance.
Afghanistan: Poppies to Perfumes
Barnett Rubin analyzes a story from Jalalabad this morning about the effort to develop the essential oil and fragrance industry in Afghanistan.
