4 December 2008

Stories from 4 December 2008

Taiwan: President out of mind?

Social activist Wobblies says on his twitter(zh): “Knowing that Ma refused Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan, I began to think that my father's friend is correct. He said that this...

4 December 2008

Israel: Having Fun with Fateh

International relations are rarely good for a laugh, but one Israeli blogger is having some fun, writes Maya Norton, who brings us the story.

4 December 2008

Taiwan: Newspaper for the Immigrants

Bao Bon Phuong, a unique immigrant-focussing Vietnamese newspaper celebrates its second year from its first issue in Dec. 2006. On its blog(zh), the editor 張正 Zhang Zheng writes : “Everyday,...

4 December 2008

Guyana: new crime hotspot

Living Guyana is "reliably informed" that new hotspots for criminal activity are developing west of Guyana's capital, Georgetown: "another major crime development … which the mainstream media have not yet...

4 December 2008

Barbados: HIV secrets

Barbados Free Press is outraged that the head of the Barbados Family Planning Association advocates not informing a woman about her husband's HIV-positive status. "[The FPA head] is a menace...

4 December 2008

Haiti: clean water

Haiti Innovation posts detailed information about a campaign to improve access to clean water in Port-au-Prince. "Their approach is to provide cost effective tablet chlorinators and to build the capacity...

4 December 2008

Bahamas: medical accountability

At Bahama Pundit , Larry Smith outlines the labyrinthine twists and turns in a "landmark" case of medical accountability currently before the Bahamas Medical Council — "more than six years...

4 December 2008

Peru: Municipal Recall Elections

This Sunday, many Peruvians will vote in municipal recall elections, which will determine the fate of many elected officials based on their performance writes Juan Arellano of Globalizado [es].

4 December 2008

Costa Rica: Calling a Constituent Assembly

Some Costa Rican lawmakers are supporting the convocation of a Constituent Assembly to rewrite the Constitution, something that Mirando en Marcelo [es] has been supporting. However, he points out that...

4 December 2008

Paraguay: Heavy Rains for the Country

Carlos Rodríguez of Rescatar [es] notices that Paraguay continues to be hit by heavy rains and that the country once was a country with balanced and frequent rains, but lately...

4 December 2008

Indonesia: Metaphorizing Obama

Indonesia Anonymus from Indonesia metaphorizes president-elect Barack Obama for the nation's governance: “… are [Indonesians] going to cling on to the same old divisive politics, same old status quo while...

4 December 2008

Fiji: How to change the government from within?

As the two-year anniversary of Fiji's military takeover approaches, another international governing body has called the Pacific island nation to hold elections in 2009 as once promised. A discussion has broken out in the blogosphere over how exactly to initiate political change in Fiji.

4 December 2008

India: Stop The Blame Game

At The Observers Indian and Pakistani activists discuss why India is blaming Pakistan for the terror attacks in Mumbai.

4 December 2008