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5 July 2006

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 5 July 2006

Kurdistance:

Written by Deborah Ann Dilley · Middle East & North Africa

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today's post is going to be short for two reasons: one, I am currently taking an intensive Arabic class this summer and transitioning back to English today...

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Fresh Ideas, New Option, Global Vision: The Brunei Times

Written by Maurina H · East Asia

A second newspaper, called The Brunei Times has finally been launched on Friday, 30th June, 2006, and debuted the next day, with a motto of “Fresh ideas, New options and...

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Culture and History Triumph Over Nationalism in the World Cup Lusosphere

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

As the World Cup heads into its emotion-packed finals, the Lusosphere is still pulsing around the diverse fates of the teams of Portuguese speaking countries. Brazil fell from its high...

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Lebanon: Palestine & Israel, Values that don’t work & the Sahsouh

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

The Lebanese blogosphere this week seems to be directly affected by the situation in the occupied territories of Palestine. Anti-Semitism in Lebanon, the besieging of Gaza, Israeli flag in the World Cup and books by Israelis that “distort” facts are some of the topics discussed. In addition to these we find out about a case where the values we are taught when young do not work well when we get older. We also learn about a common Lebanese practice called the Sahsouh.

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Updates from 5 July 2006

China

Jeremy Goldkorn from danwei describes the blogsphere discussion on Beijing earthquake, it also brings out the issue of the current draft bill which intends to make breaking news illegal: “Any law that hinders the process of sorting the facts from the rumors is a bad law. The law is a lost cause anyway. The information floodgates are already open.“

• Oiwan Lam

China

Li yin-he is discussing a criminal case in Shanghai in her blog. The court charged a homosexual person for three years imprisonment in 1984 under Hoodlum crime and rejected the appeal in 2006 by referring to the defendant's sodomy behaviour. However, sodomy has never been a crime in China's criminal law (zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Peru

Living in Peru has first-hand account of recent protests against the US-Peru free trade agreement in Arequipa and Lima.

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Neither Afrael nor his readers can understand how El Universal listed Caracas as one of the world's most affordable cities (ES).

• David Sasaki

Venezuela

Michael Fox has an informative summary of the 6th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in Venezuela.

• David Sasaki

Ecuador

Christian Espinosa links to a new blog by the newspaper El Diario (ES) from the province of Manabí. So far the weblog has been embraced mostly by migrants living outside of their home state. El Telégrafo and La Noticia are the two other Ecuadorean papers with official weblogs.

• David Sasaki

Mexico

Incredible, now it is Lopez Obrador who has taken the lead. Michelle Dion, Matthew Shugart, and A.M. Mora y Leon are all updating on the hour in English. With 85% of the votes in, Lopez Obrador has more than a one percent lead over Calderon, but as Dion explains, “Calderon has more support in the North, so the lead Lopez Obrador currently enjoys is likely to shrink even more.” A number of bloggers are chatting about the recount (in Spanish) at Hipertextual.

• David Sasaki