2 September 2009

Stories from 2 September 2009

Jordan: Maktoob's Rise

Jordanian site Jazarah discusses the development of Arabic site Maktoob in this post. “Yahoo! and Maktoob officially announced the acquisition of maktoob.com, the largest Arabic website, by the international giant...

2 September 2009

Jordan: Making Lists

Do you make lists to determine the direction of your life? Tololy, from Jordan, shares her experience with making lists in this post.

2 September 2009

East Timor: The land was freed, but who owns it?

A decade since Indonesia left East Timor with one of the most devastating scorched earth campaigns of modern times, there is strong debate about the draft Land Law, and among other things, its implications for community lands.

2 September 2009

Sri Lanka: A Journalist Sentenced For 20 Years

Sepia Mutiny reports that Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who has written articles critical of the Sri Lankan government for a magazine, has been sentenced for 20 years hard labor....

2 September 2009

Puerto Rico: Saving the Parrots

Repeating Islands blogs about the Puerto Rican Parrot Recovery Program, which is “an effort to conserve, protect, and manage the wild and captive populations of this endemic parrot in order...

2 September 2009

Jamaica: The Beauty Battle

Although Long Bench is not a fan of beauty pageants, she finds “some of the criticisms about this year’s selection rather disingenuous and void of basic historical perspective. To suggest...

2 September 2009

China: A blog on rescuing husband

A woman's husband was arrested and sentenced to 14 days in a detention center in Beijing. Apart from trying to give him support, she sets up a blog, Beijing Haze,...

2 September 2009