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24 August 2006

Daily archive · 5 posts

Stories from 24 August 2006

Broadband for All!!!

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Chilean bloggers are concerned about the opportunities that broadband can bring to our development. Alex Lagos (ES) , writes on his blog: One week ago, La Nación published an article...

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Russian-Language Blogs: Miscellanea (1)

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

On August 19, LJ user sapojnik (39 years old, Moscow) wrote this (RUS) about the 15th anniversary of the 1991 August Putsch: The Day of Victory Over the CPSU It's...

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Brunei Times's take on blogging in Brunei

Written by Maurina H · East Asia

- The Brunei Times (22nd August, 2006) Some very lucky bloggers got a mention in the new English newspaper, The Brunei Times, in an article written by Amirul Azuan. The...

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China: Censors vs. video, culture, innovation, humor, pretty much the entire Chinese blogsphere

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Late last month a seemingly important stage was reached in the maturation process of China's blogsphere with the launch of Bullog.cn, a new website bringing together—a substantial and pertinent alternative...

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Flood in Burkina Faso, Nigeria withdraws from Bakassi

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Burkina Faso, Cameroon

Read bloggers' write about flooding in Burkina Faso, Nigeria's withdrawal from the Bakassi peninsula, an opinion about NEPAD and politics in Gambia.

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Updates from 24 August 2006

South Korea

Michael Hurt at Scribblings of the Metropolitician criticizes the Korean Teachers' Union's proposal of black listing malpractice foreign English teachers. “If foreigners were to start a master ‘blacklist' of Korean schools and orgs that have cheated or abused foreigners, it would literally have to be a 100-pyeong office space…“

Robert Koehler in Marmot's hole translates a local report on how English teachers having affairs with high school students.

• Oiwan Lam

Taiwan (ROC)

ESWN translates an article written by Lung Yin Tai in responding to recent political mobilization agains Chen Shui-bian.

The newly formed taiwan group political blog challenges Lung's opinion.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Chinese Law professor blog comments on the result of Chen Guangcheng's court case. “The extremely harsh sentence for Chen Guangcheng confirms not only the lawlessness and vindictiveness of the authorities of Linyi City but also the determination of the national Communist Party Political-Legal Committee to intimidate and suppress the country's rising generation of human rights activist-lawyers.“

Zeng jin-yan has Chen's full defence statement (zh) in her blog.

• Oiwan Lam

China

In reaction to the possibility that Pluto has to be taken away from the solar system planet list, the mainland science fiction writer, Hansong wrote a story about the western conspiracy against China on such proposal(zh).

• Oiwan Lam

Kazakhstan

Sean Roberts examines whether or not the murder of Kazakh opposition politician Altynbek Sarsenbaev will have changed anything as the trial of those accused of murdering him wraps up.

• Nathan Hamm

Armenia

Zarchka writes on enjoying Armenian village life.

• Nathan Hamm

Kazakhstan

After having lived there for seven years, Narcogen has started driving every day, which is quite an experience.

• Nathan Hamm

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