14 May 2009

Stories from 14 May 2009

China: Crisis seen from the Sinosphere

  14 May 2009

Uln from chinayouren looks into various schools of opinion from the Sinosphere on the China Crisis. The blogger sums up the discussion into: time, markets, people, government, package, chest, riot and inflation/deflation.

Fiji: Convicted soldiers freed on supervision plan

  14 May 2009

Fiji’s government admitted that eight soldiers and one policeman who had been found guilty of manslaughter have been released from prison, two months into their four-year sentences. A government spokesman said the Minister of Justice ordered their release under a compulsory supervision order, which allows certain criminals to serve the remainder of their sentences outside of prison

China: Angry Youth

  14 May 2009

China Beat posted Teresa Wright's observation and view on angry youth phenomena in China presented in a roundtable at Brookings Institution.

Colombia: Where is the Water?

  14 May 2009

Angelgoth asks “where is the water? [es]” and writes about the difficulties of receiving water in the area of Bellavista near La Loma in Medellín, Colombia. Residents had the chore of finding water or asking friends and neighbors to share.

Russia: Eurovision

“Suddenly it is that time of the year again – the time when one cannot help but feel that one is, was and will always remain a European,” writes Josefina of Russian Blog in her post on this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Siberian Light posts an overview “of every single...