Global Voices

English

The world is talking, are you listening?

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Armenia

Zarchka writes on enjoying Armenian village life.

Kazakhstan

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

Iran

Faryad says one day of his/her mother's salary reduced on her pay check in the name of helping Lebanon! The blogger says it is a very ugly act to reduce somebody's salary for a cause without asking him [Fa]. The blogger adds he/she does not know this salary reduction only happened for employees of Ministry of Education or other organizations are concerned too?

Iran

In Afkar Mastoor we read that Iran faces electricity shortage this year [Fa]. The blogger reminds us that Iranian government refused to advance the clocks by one hour during the summer time to save energy.

Bulgaria

Andy H of Csikszereda Musings writes (here and here) about the problems faced by the Polish migrant laborers in Britain - and whether the same awaits Bulgarians and Romanians.