Latest posts by Jose Manuel Tesoro from December, 2005
China: Jailed Journalists
the leaky pen writes about three journalists now languishing in Chinese jails: Singapore's Ching Cheong, researcher Zhao Yan of the New York Times and local reporter Shi Tao.
Indonesia: Economists’ Blog
Cafe Salemba is a group blog written by Indonesian economists, one in Jakarta and three studying in the U.S. Recently, they've been writing about subsidies: for education and for art.
Philippines: Jose Rizal Links
On the 109th anniversary of Jose Rizal's execution, Filipino Librarian collects some links to introduce readers to the Philippines’ national hero.
Thailand: Bilingual Posting
Fringer has announced he will be no longer writing as often in English as in Thai: “it is almost impossible to write in different languages without switching between two different...
Thailand: New Year's Party
At thai-blogs.com, photographs of a company New Year party at a country fair.
China: Bloggers Beware of WordPress China
China bloggers have been sounding the alarm about wordpress.com.cn, a free WordPress blog hosting service in China. The service, which has no relationship to WordPress, deletes accounts without warning a...
Cambodia: Visit to Movie Star's Wildlife Refuge
On the Khmer440.com forum, keeping_it_riel posts photographs and an account of a visit to Hollywood movie star's Angelina Jolie's $5 million wildlife refuge in Cambodia.
China: The Mystery of the Missing Chinese Blogs
GVO co-founder Ethan Zuckerman discusses on his blog why search engines often miss Chinese blogs in their search results.
Indonesia: One Year After the Tsunami
Indonesia Today by Yosef Ardi updates the progress in the two Indonesian regions most affected by 2005's tsunami: the province of Aceh and the islands of Nias. “One year later,...
Philippines: Gas Project Runs Out
In the 1990s, the Malampaya underwater gas field was touted as a major move for the Philippines into cleaner energy. Divergent Poles talks about what has happened to the project...
Philippines: Filipino Intimacies in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has long been a major destination for Filipinos seeking work. The PCIJ blog hosts a podcast from a journalist who lived there for three years, on how they...
Japan: Gaudy Game Paddles
Japanduit has colorful photographs of hagoita, wooden paddles used in a traditional Japanese game much like badminton that is played around New Year's. The paddles are adorned with Kabuki images,...
China: Scrubbed News Digest
danwei prints a post by a publishing consultant in Shenzhen on Cankao Xiaoxi, a Chinese-language digest of articles from world press formerly restricted to the Communist party elite but now...
China: Patients’ Fate
In 2004, China's President Hu Jintao shook the hands of two AIDS patients in a hospital. The resulting exposure changed their lives, and not for the better. EastSouthWestNorth translates a...
Indonesia: Aceh Blog
I'm Your Huckleberry is a blog in English and Indonesian by a native of Indonesia's rebellious province of Aceh. He's working there for the U.N.D.P. and writes, in one post,...
China: Signs of Beijing Christmas
Imagethief reveals how you know Christmas is approaching in officially atheist Beijing.
Japan: Hard Gay Toy
Controversial but popular Japanese TV character Razor Ramon HG, a.k.a. Hard Gay now has a toy inspired by him. A “sexual minority” teacher's network has complained that the toy, which...
Philippines: Constitutional Reform
Ricky Carandang reveals his disappointment that the commission tasked with reforming the Philippines’ constitution and consider a change from a presidential to parliamentary government has taken the best reforms off...
Singapore: Symbols
Yawning Bread tells the stories behind Singapore's national symbols, including the much-maligned merlion and the Vanda Miss Joaquim orchid.
China: Anti-Virus Efforts
Revere at Effect Measure praises China's cooperative transparency in sharing with the world its bird flu virus samples. “The Chinese also report they have begun their own clinical trials of...
China, Hong Kong: Banking Haven
Sun Bin suggests that China ought to create a Caribbean-style banking and tax haven to add 0.1% to its GDP. He maps out some places in the Pearl River Delta...
