Stories from 11 March 2009
Jamaica: Congrats, Windies!
Blogging from Jamaica, Girl With a Purpose congratulates the West Indies cricket team on winning their first test series in five years.
Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago: Summit Time
Barbados’ Cheese-on-bread! is excited that the Obamas “will be in the region to the attend the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad next month.”
Kenya: Diary Of A Bride To Be
A Kenyan bride to be is blogging about her experience, “Yup people, I’m engaged and have been so for a good number of days. How has it been? Well at...
Dominica: Rhys’ House to be Preserved
Repeating Islands’ Blog reports that “Vena’s Guesthouse in Roseau [Dominica], which had occupied Jean Rhys’ childhood home…has closed its doors after several decades of operation”, adding: “The building…has a new...
Cuba: Political Clarity
“The information to make an intelligent evaluation of Cuba’s civilian vs. military led economic performance, the pluses and minus of both, is simply not available to journalists or the general...
Barbados, Jamaica: Homophobia?
Living in Barbados gets candid about Jamaica's “uncompromisingly hostile attitude towards homosexuality”, saying: “The bottom is not falling out of Jamaica because of gays.”
Guyana: CLICO Questions
Diaspora blogger Signifyin’ Guyana has quite a few comments on “the CLICO mess”.
Japan, Brazil: Crisis puts an end to the dream of a better life
After 30 years of a strong immigration trend from Brazil to Japan, young Brazilians who have crossed the ocean in search of a better life are now leaving their adopted country. It is estimated that between 40,000 and 50,000 Brazilians have lost their jobs and, unable to compete in the shrinking Japanese job market, have decided it is time to make the journey back home.
Kazakhstan: President told what to do with crisis, and gave extra $4 bln
Arman analyzes the new stage of anti-crisis efforts of the Kazakhstani government, which was started by the presidential State of the Nation address.
Kazakhstan: The economic crisis
Elina Galperin says that the economy of Kazakhstan has been hit hard hard by the worldwide drop in demand for energy supplies, and the government is increasingly worried about protests...
Afghanistan: Plight of an Afghan Christian
Sanjar writes that many people in Afghanistan have turned to the faith of Jesus Christ in recent years. A few of them have done so openly, though most have kept...
Kazakhstan: Blogosphere's crisis chronicles
Bloggers of Kazakhstan continue to follow closely the situation in the country and the government's attempts to switch on a “manual control” mode in economy and other spheres of social...
South Africa: Backstage Photos from Design Indaba
Ladybrille posts backstage photos from the Design Indaba in South Africa. It is one of South Africa's largest trade event in the design industry.
China: Online Democracy
Uln from Chinayouren takes a tour around the Internet to see how netizens respond to the recent NPC-CPCC meeting and online chat between legislators and netizens.
China and France: Patriotic young girl PK anti-Chinese French guy
Fauna from ChinaSMACK translated a post from MOP about a young girl arguing with a French guy on an airplane.
China: Difficulties in China Business
China law blog sums up various difficulties in doing China business around areas such as: intellectual property, disappearing Chinese companies, joint ventures gone bad and labour law violations.
China: Green GDP suspended
Bullogger reposted a local news about the central government's decision to suspend the release of Green GDP index in China in order to stimulate the economy (zh).
East Timor: Reporter used SMS texts to expose corruption deal
Veteran East Timor journalist José Antonio Belo used leaked mobile phone text messages to expose a corruption deal involving the country’s Justice Minister. Today, the journalist is facing a criminal defamation suit.
Uruguay: Sold Out Tickets for Teatro de Verano
Mariolo of Asi ta’l mundo, Botija [es] expresses frustration at the inability to buy sold out tickets to the Carnaval show in the Teatro de Verano (Summer Theater) in Montevideo,...
El Salvador: Final Week Before Elections
In the final week before the presidential elections in El Salvador, Hunnapuh provides some observations, including a comparison in the amount of money spent by the different campaigns [es].
Bolivia: Another US Diplomat Expelled from Country
The Second Secretary of the US Embassy in Bolivia has been expelled by the government of Evo Morales. Willy Jordan writes that this is not the first time that relations...