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14 February 2006

Daily archive · 5 posts

Stories from 14 February 2006

Costa Rica vibrates with the Central American Music Festival

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Caribbean, Latin America

Feet are fiddling and fingers are drumming as many Costa Ricans wait for the PapayaFest, Papaya Music's tribute to San José as the 2006 Latin American Culture Capital, to begin on February 16th. Papaya Music is a Central American effort to unite musicians, researchers and producers who wish to bring traditional and popular composers into greater visibility and younger generation's attention.

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Cambodia: The Shadow of the Past

Written by Tharum Bun · Cambodia

In 1970 a boy of ten Nhem En joined Khmer Rouge. He was sent to study photography in China, and six years later became a photographer of death at Tuol-Sleng...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Eastern & Central Europe

Buzkashi in Tajikistan - by Dushanbe Pictures, Erik Petersson, 2006. Welcome to the latest scan of the Central Asian and Caucasian blogosphere, brought to you bi-weekly by neweurasia. While many...

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Cape Verde: elections

Written by Sokari Ekine · Sub-Saharan Africa

Yebo Gogo reports on the “too close to call” elections taking place in Cape Verde.

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African Music Roundup #3

Written by Obi · Sub-Saharan Africa

It's been a fun few weeks with the festival of football that was the African Cup of Nations (congratulations to Egypt the host). Watching all the footballing talent on display...

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Updates from 14 February 2006

Hong Kong (China)

Hemlock regards the attempt to implement a goods and services tax in Hong Kong as utopian as IMF asking Nepal to restore peace. For “our visionary leaders can’t do anything that’s in the interests of the community, because we’re not a community. We are ‘various sectors’”.

• Tian Yi

China

Beijing Loafer defends the role of piracy in media-controlled China. Without piracy, Chinese audiences “would only get the likes of Titanic, Backstreet Boys and Batman with no shoulder exposed, products as mind numbing as the communist propaganda”. The drawbacks? Misleading subtitles.

• Tian Yi

Mexico

Jefferson Morley takes a survey of of what the Mexican media is saying about the scandal, “el hotelazo” in which the U.S. Treasury Department told the management of the Sheraton hotel in downtown Mexico City to expel 16 Cuban officials who were meeting with U.S. oil executives. A U.S. spokeswoman said the meeting violated the Helms-Burton Act which prohibits American companies from dealing with Cuban individuals or companies.

• David Sasaki