Global Voices Online

Kyrgyzstan's president has set a date for drafts of a new constitution to be finished. Matt Jay discusses this news, saying that it is obviously a reaction to the recent protest against the president.

With Counterpart International looking to be the latest victim of Uzbekistan's spree of NGO closures, Elizabeth explains the various reasons by which Uzbekistan justifies the expulsions.

The EastSouthWestNorth blogger does a non-random sample analysis of several blogs' Google PageRanks and comes up with a completely unreliable conclusion. Further down is the final translation of a very relevant series of reports on Christian-ish churches in rural China.

The Oranckay blogger tells us why increased English-language news reporting in Korean newspapers might not be such a good thing.

In ‘One Country, Two Rock Scenes‘, Holidarity's Friend Gram reveals a mainland China rock star trick of the trade.

Supernaut Frances D'Ath and her non-demonic friends gear up for Apocalypse Guangzhou later this month in ‘Canton Opera Madness.'

sevenyearsinchina's Han Girl visits the Zheng He exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of History and comes away flipping Eurocentrism on its head.

“What can one expect? We're talking about people who still use the word ‘discover' to describe the trip to America by Columbus,” she writes. “Columbus discovered a new land for himself but the land was already there, inhabited even. One wonders why they don't say Marco Polo discovered China.”

It didn't take long for Dave and Stefan at Hong Kong's Blog the Talk to get around to podcasting and their most recent release “a meditation on pedestrian behavior, individualism and the appeal of Communism in this capitalist paradise,” doesn't disappoint.

“[Electoral Council Chief] Rev. Malu-Malu was rebuffed by catholic bishops who claim he does not have the power to prolong the transition period [beyond June 30],” says (FR) Le Renouveau Congolais. Instead, the Church calls for a national dialogue by June 30 to collectively decide what to do beyond June 30.