9 January 2006
Stories from 9 January 2006
African Women Blogging This Week
Heri ya Mwaka Mpya (Happy New Year in Kiswahili). The recent the jailing of a 56-year old English man in the UK for the sexual abuse of children in Africa...
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Heri ya Mwaka Mpya (Happy New Year in Kiswahili). The recent the jailing of a 56-year old English man in the UK for the sexual abuse of children in Africa...
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Robert Wright takes a look at the plans for a central transit station in Buenos Aires, which would consist of “deep train tunnels, an underground highway, enormous amounts of parking, new subway stops, & recovered green space.” He still needs some convincing.
neweurasia reports that Kazakhstan's oil reserves are once again the subject of wild speculation.
Registan.net comments on the State Department's decision to move Central Asia to its South Asian Affairs Bureau.
the beatroot reports that the UK, facing a shortage of halal butchers, is seeking them through advertising to Poland's small Muslim community.
Onnik Krikorian reports that Yerevan's homeless are freezing as the government takes its time renovating a shelter for them.
neweurasia posts on the tragic death of 13 children at an orphanage in Tajikistan. The president is furious with how the situation has been handled.
I guess it has to do with humanizing a figure we prefer to see as super-natural. The almost funny thing...
people of maldives..you have to stop this civil war. its sad to see it in this state of affairs....
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I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...