Global Voices · 27 August 2009

27 August 2009

Monthly archive

Stories from 27 August 2009

Russia: Nikita Mikhalkov's '12’

Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe27 August 2009

Azerbaijan: Washington DC demonstration in support of detained bloggers

Quick Reads · Central Asia & Caucasus27 August 2009

Japan: Falling Asleep on Trains

Quick Reads · East Asia27 August 2009

Maldives: Defense Arrangement With India

Quick Reads · South Asia27 August 2009

Hong Kong: “Compensated Dating” and the use of Pejoratives

East Asia27 August 2009

The life imprisonment of the “girl butcher” might have halted the case against “compensated dating” in Hong Kong for a while, but what have Hong Kong people learned from the...

Japan: Hazy yet Familiar IT Vocabulary

Quick Reads · East Asia27 August 2009

Iraq: Death Of Shi'ite Leader Abdul Aziz Al Hakim

Middle East & North Africa27 August 2009

Sayyed Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, leader of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (the largest political party in the Iraqi Council of Representatives), died of lung cancer on August 26...

Bahamas, Jamaica: Thoughts on the IMF

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 August 2009

Ecuador: The National Festival of Music

Quick Reads · Latin America27 August 2009

Martinique: Dance the Bèlè

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 August 2009

Argentina: The Passing of a Fellow Twitterer

Quick Reads · Latin America27 August 2009

St. Vincent & the Grenadines: R.I.P. Walter Porter

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 August 2009

Pakistan: Bloggers Vs. The US Citizenship And Immigration Services

Quick Reads · South Asia27 August 2009

Trinidad & Tobago: Productivity

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 August 2009

Japan: What to do with “Media Arts”

East Asia27 August 2009

For a nation working to capitalize its “soft power”, what is the role of anime and manga culture in governmental policies? The official answer is that anime, manga and digital...

Jamaica: Making It Last

Quick Reads · Caribbean27 August 2009

Sri Lanka: Video Evidence Of Extra-Judicial Killings Sparks Debate

Quick Reads · South Asia27 August 2009

Ted Kennedy And The South Asian Immigrants in the USA

Quick Reads · North America27 August 2009

Bangladesh: Mourning Senator Edward Kennedy

North America27 August 2009

Senator Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009), the second most senior member of the US Senate, died of cancer last Tuesday. Bloggers recall him as...