21 April 2006
Stories from 21 April 2006
Nepal Revolution: Showdown
The king is nowhere close to seeing the light.
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Chinese media guru Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei links to Youtube footage of Chinese president Hu Jintao being heckled at the White House late last week.
“Are you nuts man?,” asks one reader. “You are going to get blocked.”
Bill Gates is visiting Vietnam. Sadgopan, an IT industry veteran, finds lots of excitement in Vietnam for this. He finds strong pro-US sentiment among the people. The blogger also shares some thoughts on Vietnam as a offshore service location.
Luke Distelhorst reports that Ulaanbaatar's governor's office is finally cleaning up the capital for Mongolia's 800th anniversary.
Singapore blogger Lancerlord links to a short video made by Malaysian students that pokes fun at some Singapore-Malaysia issues.
Nanyaar has a chronology of events around the death of an Indian student in Armenia while Onnik Krikorian has a few updates and more photos.
As they occasionally do, a web2.0 war of words has broken out. When Eduardo Arcos typed in the domain wordpress.es he was redirected (ES) to the weblog of the Ferca Network (ES), a Spanish web company run by David Carrero. Walter of HTML Life defends David (ES) saying that he has good intentions, but Arcos follows up saying the best gesture would be offer the domain to the open source WordPress community (ES) instead of using it for a proprietary company.
Anarchistian writes on the connection between one's beliefs and being accepted by other Armenians.
Sean Guillory reports on one day's news out of Russia's capital: “Soldiers' Mothers, HIV/AIDS NGOs Under Attack & Anti-Fascist Murdered in Moscow.”
W. Shedd of The Accidental Russophile writes about the demographic situation in Russia.
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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Based on the Wikipedia list of countries, details.
In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...