16 December 2008

Stories from 16 December 2008

Vietnam: Numerology

  16 December 2008

Ned gets to learn the lucky and unlucky numbers in Vietnam. For example, the numbers 4 and 2 are unlucky in Vietnam.

George Bush and Iraq: ‘Shoe'denfreude?

  16 December 2008

Will this become one of those moments in history? In years to come will you recount to your grand children where you were when an Iraqi journalist, Montather Al-Zeidi, threw his shoes at the president of the United States? For me I was at home just getting my kids ready to sleep when my father called me insisting that I simply had to switch on the television immediately. Iraqi bloggers reacted in much the same way with a number who wrote their first new post in months just to make their comment.

South Korea: Riot Police Suppressed Comfort Women Protest

  16 December 2008

Michael Solis from Ohmynews! reported (with a video) about the Korean comfort women protest on 10 of December, 60th anniversary of the United Nations’ proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the government sent riot police to suppress the peaceful protest.

Poland: Climate, History, Holidays

  16 December 2008

A roundup of the recent posts on Poland: Leopolis writes about a successful outcome of the EU climate package talks; Raf Uzar writes about General Wojciech Jaruzelski's alleged plans to “open Poland’s borders and let in the Soviet army”; 20 east is fuming about bad driving in Warsaw; Polandian complains...