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28 August 2006

Daily archive · 3 posts

Stories from 28 August 2006

Lebanon: Blogging Back to Normality

Written by Moussa Bashir · Middle East & North Africa

This week the Lebanese blogosphere witnessed a sluggish move away from posts about destruction and death caused by the war to posts that reflect patriotic passions, politics and personal accounts. Photos of how ads, weddings and cartoons were affected by the war can also be found. Life in the blogosphere seems to be trying hard to go back to the way it was.

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Global Food Blog Report #29

Written by Melissa De León · Middle East & North Africa, East Asia

#1: Maika's Blog on Haitian Food: "Griot" (pronounced: greee-yo ) a popular Haitian original. Which is fried pork shoulder accompanied with a spicy hot as habanero cole slaw like condiment...

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Hong Kong: Chinese wikimedia conference

Written by Oiwan Lam · East Asia

Last weekend (August 26-27), the Chinese wikimedia conference was held in Hong Kong. The two-day conference included a keynote address by Mr Jimmy Wales, founder and chairman of the Board...

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Updates from 28 August 2006

Afghanistan

Dialogue 3 says Hamid Karzai, Afghan President has done a lot of compromises with warlords and has lost his credibility among Afghans. According to the blogger poverty, corruption, and insecurity are dominating Afghan society and Afghan President is unable to solve them.

• Fred Petrossian

Japan

Registan.net and neweurasia both comment on Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

• Nathan Hamm

Armenia

Onnik Krikorian has numerous new posts covering his recent visit to Lachin. Among them are ones on Ditsmayri and Herik, two dead villages in the region.

• Nathan Hamm

Kyrgyzstan

Yulia has thoughts on Kyrgyzstan's relations with the United States and President Kurmanbek Bakiev's foreign policy tendencies after an eventful summer in the bilateral relations between the US and Kyrgyzstan.

• Nathan Hamm

Kazakhstan

Ben Paarmann posts the third part of his series on the determination of borders in Central Asia.

• Nathan Hamm

Vietnam

The blogger at antidote to burnout talks about the dynamics of social dinners in Vietnam and links to another blog post on the same topic.

• Preetam Rai

Myanmar (Burma)

The blogger at Man Actually reads about someone from Myanmar winning one of the bids for a posh property in Singapore. “Then.. My mind went busy to list the latest myanmar tycoons. Who could that be? There are no Bill Gates of Myanmar. No steel magnet. And no big corporate that worth the talk or to think. “

• Preetam Rai

Mexico

Adirondack Base Camp writes: “My wife and daughter just arrived in Oaxaca and I’m concerned for their safety. Therefore I have started this page as a source of information and news regarding the current situation there as it develops.” Also, Ana Maria Salazar on allegations that armed groups have taken over what had been a teacher's strike.

• David Sasaki

Bolivia

Katy of Caracas Chronicles translates an article by Bolivian author, Juan Claudio Lechín about “Bolivarian double standards” at a Bolivian Book Fair.

• David Sasaki