Stories from 12 June 2008
Guyana: Love and Marriage
“It is a shock to some people system, nice, nice gyal like you ain’t married yet? A gyal should not walk around unfettered by man”: Guyana-Gyal has other ideas.
China: Tearful Plea to Stock Holders
Daynews copies the writing style of Qiuyu's “Tearful Plea To Disaster Victims” and writes a piece on “Tearful Plea to Stock Holders” telling them that all their money has been vaporized to the heaven [zh].
Malaysia: Oil subsidy
Noname's blog reviews the oil subsidy policy of Malaysia
Indonesia: Mud volcano
Mikhail Tsyganov blogs about the “largest mud volcano disaster in the world” in East Java, Indonesia
Kazakhstan: ENRC versus Kazakhmys
Adam reports on the Kazakh government’s decision to exchange part of its share in ENRC metals corporation for 15% stake in Kazakhmys copper giant [rus].
Kyrgyzstan: Writer and Statesman Died
Almaz reports that famous Kyrgyz writer and statesman Chingiz Aitmatov dies of pneumonia at a clinic in Nuremberg at 79.
Egyptian Blogger Faces a Defamation Case for Highlighting environmental pollution
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information reports on the first defamation case against the blogger Tamer Mabrouk – Elhakika blog, by a company called ‘Trust Chemicals’. “This case aims to silence the voice of a blogger who writes about the crime of polluting a lake that connects many cities...
