Latest posts by Jose Manuel Tesoro from October, 2005
Malaysia: Thoughts on First Lady's Death
Malaysian bloggers share their thoughts on the Oct. 19 passing of PM Abdullah Badawi's wife Datin Seri Endon Mahmood.
Japan: Maid Cafes
Tokyo Times reports on the expanding “maid cafe” franchise, in which waitresses dressed in frilly outfits wait hand-and-foot on patrons. The police are suggesting that the business apply for an...
Cambodia: Secret Treaty
The Cambodia-Vietnam border negotiations continue to be a hot topic in the local blogosphere. Dissident blog KI Media (“dedicated to publishing sensitive information about Cambodia”) offers a copy of a...
China: Too Much IP Law
Mutant Frog Travelogue has a paradigm shift: It's not that there's no intellectual property law in China; the problem is that there's too much of it.
East Asia: Bird Flu Fowl
Effect Measure is a blog run by public health experts and epidemiologists. They are very worried about what they call the bird flu iceberg.
Hong Kong: Newspaper Survival
Diana Wong at Chatter Garden asks whether newspapers can still survive in Hong Kong.
Indonesia: Fuel Dominos
“What a year it's been,” says Macam-macam of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's first year in power. Corruption and rising fuel prices bedevil the country, Sarapan Ekonomi notes. Meanwhile, Myanmar...
Philippines: Blogconference
If you're in Manila, get out your diaries: the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism is having a conference on “Journalists as Bloggers” this Saturday, Oct. 22.
South Korea: Security Law Controversy
Several blogs have been discussing the top-line item in local news: the South Korean government's handling of the prosecution under the National Security Law of a local professor who had...
Vietnam: Twenty Reasons to Smile
Our Man in Hanoi lists twenty things that make him smile in Vietnam.
Indonesia: More Babies
To shoulder Indonesia's debt burden, tedy at tedsta.com makes the Swiftian suggestion that Indonesians ought to have more babies.
China: Guardian Explains, Others Respond
asiapundit rounds up the skeptical reactions to the Guardian‘s explanation that reporter Benjamin Joffe-Walt's exaggerated description of Lu Banglie's injuries at Taishi was caused by temporary insanity. Bingfeng Teahouse helpfully...
Japan: Yasukuni Visit
Yaw and Mog passed by the Yasukuni Shrine during PM Junichiro Koizumi's visit on the anniversary of the interment of fourteen war criminals there and asks what Japan gains by...
Philippines: Need Another Hero
Torn and Frayed in Manila parses the supposed national yearning for another hero.
Vietnam: Indians in Hanoi
No Star Where‘s search for traces of the Indian community in Vietnam leads to a discovery that poet Rabindranath Tagore had once visited Saigon.
Cambodia: Radio Host Arrest
Lux Mean at Cambodia Blog worries that bloggers may be next, after the arrest of a local radio host. The announcer's alleged crime? Interviewing a critic of a Vietnam-Cambodia border...
China: A Prostitute's Life
Over at WoW, the blog of journalism students at Beijing Foreign Studies University, a fascinating, tragic account of the dashed dreams of a murdered prostitute.
China: One Chinese, Please
Danwei reports on efforts to eradicate non-standard Mandarin (i.e. Hong Kong or Taiwan accents) from mainland TV.
Philippines: Bocobo's Back
Dean Jorge Bocobo's blogiant Philippine Commentary has returned from a year's hiatus; many in the Filipino blogosphere welcome him back.
Singapore: Why Han Blogs
Wannabe Lawyer‘s Han responds to a National University of Singapore survey on why he blogs.
South Korea: Asian Films Now Less Asian?
On The Asia Pages, a response to Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's comment that Asian films are going too Hollywood.
