Stories from 8 June 2006
Mongolia: Energy Cooperation with China
Luke Distelhorst reports on talks over coal and energy cooperation betwee Mongolia and China.
Kazakhstan: Iranian Ties
Leila discusses ties between Kazakhstan and Iran in the wake of a meeting between delegations of the two countries.
Afghanistan, Central Asia: Musical Change
Registan.net writes about pressures on Turkmen musical traditions in Afghanistan and the influence of Western pop and hip-hop on music throughout Central Asia.
Georgia: Borjomi
Jeremy, who is on his way to Armenia, sings the praises of Borjomi, Georgia, known to many in the Soviet Union as a summer retreat, the source of the country's famous mineral water, and a candidate for the 2014 Olympics.
Puerto Rico: La Voz del Centro
Tinta Digital introduces (ES) “La Voz del Centro”, a radio show on Puerto Rican and Caribbean history and culture whose episodes are also archived online.
Jamaica, UK: Celebrating Zadie's win
JT at the Caribbean Beat Weblog celebrates Zadie Smith's winning the Orange Prize for Fiction: “Zadie Smith is British but counts as Caribbean on account of her Jamaican mother and the multicultural world she lives in. . . . Don't worry about the critics who make much of this book...
Storms and rain in Chile
Pancho Cornejo show us the capital rain collecters in this photo. The first rain arrived and half of the capital, Santiago, is flooded. One of the main reasons is that the urban ground of the city has erased the natural channel’s that drained the water accumulated in the mountains towards...
Venezuela: Blog-Journalism Conference
Luis Carlos (ES), Jorge Letralia (ES), Zinnia Martinez (ES), and José Roberto Duque all partook in the event “Blogjournalism: Your Voice on the Web” at the Central University of Venezuela on Saturday.
Peru: Humala and UPP Go Separate Ways
Inka writes on Journal Peru that Ollanta Humala will not lead the UPP party. Humala ran under the party banner when his own Nationalist party failed to officially register in time.
Guatemala Museo Casa Mima
Blog de mi Guatemala has an informative post on the Casa Mima Museum (ES) in the historic center of Guatemala City.
Colombia: Cartagena on Election Day
David of A Ride for the Climate left his hotel on election day in Colombia and took some pictures around Cartagena. He even conducted his own, surprisingly accurate exit poll.
Argentina: Blog Conference
Leandro Zanoni is finally going to university. Well, at least for a day to take part in the Blog Conference at the University of Palermo on June 29th where he will be joined with Luis Majul, Darío Gallo, Gastón Roitberg, Mariano Amartino, Alejandro Rotizchner, Julio Lagos, Julián Gallo, Laura Ubfal,...
Playboy Indonesia and Two Contradictory Opinion
There are two interesting contradictory responses regarding the second edition of Playboy Indonesia which was released from its new office in Bali. Budi Putra thinks that the second issue is “skinner”: The edition, which hit newsstands across the country on Wednesday, offers bolder content than the first. The first issue...
Nepal: Prachanda speaks
United We Blog! comments on Prachanda, the leader of the Nepal Communist party on television. “Prachanda said that first Maoists should be incorporated in the interim government and the country should talk about developments and bringing in help packages from abroad.”
Nepal: Interim Constitution
Legal News from Nepal on the need for an interim constitution – “Legal experts stressed the need for an interim constitution to legalise the recent achievements of the movement and the declaration of the House of Representatives (HoR).”
India: What's with the copywriters
Jabberwock comments on an advertisement. “…dapper-looking Mahendra Singh Dhoni turns to the camera and tells us, “I decided not to be ordinary. I chose to shine.” Cut to close-up of shoe-polishers looking up at Dhoni in adoration and subservience; looking, essentially, like buffoons who have “chosen” their lot, chosen to...
Singapore: Singapore as a model for South Korea
Jodi at Asiapages wonders if Singapore could serve as a model for South Korea's aspirations to be a international business hub. “What struck me most about Singapore though was how I have heard people talk about how Korea is striving so hard to model itself into something sort of like...
India: Culture, Myths and Justice
Ashok questions why the story of Silappathikaram is considered reflective of Tamil culture or zest for justice, when clearly it is about a woman who tolerates the waywardness of her husband.
Malaysia: Malaysia vs. Europe
A Malaysian politician, currently on a trip to Europe asks on his blog “Why is it Malaysians can match person-to-person the Europeans, but lose out when it comes to nation-to-nation?”
Cambodia: Phnom Penh Street Images
Mythicaldude has posted more pictures of people from his street in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Indonesia: Playboy Indonesia Tame
Indcoup in Jakarta find the latest issue of Indonesian Playboy rather tame and figures out an alternative “adults” magazine that is doing well in Indonesia. Since its introduction, Playboy has seen protests by various groups trying to close it down.
