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9 August 2006

Daily archive · 6 posts

Stories from 9 August 2006

The Week that Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Bolivia celebrated her Independence Day on August 6th complete with the usual fanfare and outward displays of civic pride. Many Bolivians marked this 181st birthday with family and friends, while...

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India In Blog Posts: Cola, Newly Weds, Travel and Bollywood

Written by Kamla Bhatt · South Asia

What are bloggers talking about India? Lots...the cola affair, wifi, newly weds, travel and Bollywood.

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Hunger strike, a filtered journal & a banned NGO

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Many Iranian bloggers are worried about Ahmad Batebi, activist student who is on hunger strike in prison for about ten days. Many compared his case to Akbar Mohammadi’s, another student...

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China: Hooker unions, uniting bloggers and qualitative and quantitative data from the Chinese blogsphere

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

One stock narrative for MSM reports on China is the untabooing of sex since Mao died. Indeed, a trip to the countryside reveals unsettling numbers of STD treatment posters and...

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Pana-Blogs Report

Written by Melissa De León · Latin America

#1: Tatiana Salazar visits Chicá, Parque Nacional de Campana (ES): Chicá is close to the Parque Nacional de Campana, a national ecological reserve with excellent weather, great roads, and a...

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Death of Joseph Sankara, Drug menace in Ghana, Prof Chike Obi and Prez Election in Gambia

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Sub-Saharan Africa

Burkina Faso's independence day, a Nigerian mathematician, and elections in Gambia

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Updates from 9 August 2006

China

Scott Relyea in Frog in a well introduces the world's biggest online Chinese used book website: Kongfz.com.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Non violent resistance reports on a client protest against Baidu, the biggest internet search engine in China, of its fraud in paid search engine ranking.

• Oiwan Lam

Uzbekistan

Registan.net speculates on the possible reasons for today's meeting between Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov and US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher.

• Nathan Hamm

Onnik Krikorian reports that internet connections in Armenia are still spotty after last weekend's loss of service. He says that if the Armenian blogosphere suddenly goes silent, the poor connection is the reason.

• Nathan Hamm

Kazakhstan

Leila of neweurasia writes about doing business in Kazakhstan and interviews a manager from a firm supplying IT equipment to Kazakhstan for additional perspective.

• Nathan Hamm

Armenia

Onnik Krikorian reports on mixed race marriages in Armenia, public attitudes against them, and the difficulties that such couples face.

• Nathan Hamm

Cuba

Zenia, writing from Pinar del Rio, Cuba, critiques (ES) the ways Cuba is viewed by the right-wing press: “‘In Cuba many people don't have MP3 players or cell phones.' That's one of the criticisms circulating in cyberspace these days from the right. . . . “

• Georgia Popplewell

Bermuda

Charlotte Andrews reports on a public meeting convened to dicuss the Bermuda Government's Draft Sustainable Development Strategy and Implementation Plan.

• Georgia Popplewell

Barbados

Barbados Free Press reports that the Caribbean Broadcasting Company (CBC), Barbados' national television, network, has committed to running one HIV/AIDS public service announcement during every hour of broadcast, as well as embedding HIV/AIDS messages in the plots and scripts of regular television programming.

• Georgia Popplewell