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2 October 2006

Daily archive · 7 posts

Stories from 2 October 2006

Regionalism and Dissent Mark the Start of Run-off in Brazil

Written by Jose Murilo · Latin America

More than 125 million Brazilians went to the polls Sunday to vote for president and to select governors for all 26 states and the Federal District, as well as all...

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Post Coup Developments in Thailand

Written by Preetam Rai · East Asia

The latest in Thailand is the swearing in of the new prime minister, retired General Surayud Chulanond. General Sonthi's Council For National Security - CNS (formerly known as Council for...

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What Salvadoran bloggers are saying — death squads and golf courses

Written by Tim Muth · Latin America

The brutal killing on September 25th of Salvadoran Catholic priest, Ricardo Antonio Romero, has prompted much comment in the Salvadoran blogosphere. Fr. Romero's body was found bludgeoned to death on...

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Poland's Pulse in the Blogopshere

Written by Jordan & Maria Seidel · Eastern & Central Europe

We’re looking through the Polish language blogs first, this time, as the political situation in the country generated a lot of heat in the blogosphere, as well as managed to...

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Apocalypso Now: T&T bloggers on last Friday's earthquake

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Caribbean

FEW THINGS say more about a nation's character than the way its citizens react to a natural disaster, potential or otherwise. Some would suggest that Trinidad and Tobago's bloggers aren't...

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Voices from Zimbabwe

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

Years after the first commercial farms were invaded by marauding war veterans and supporters of the ruling ZANU-PF, a new wave of farm invasions has hit the country merely weeks...

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Updates from 2 October 2006

Senegal

On illegal African immigration Senegal Diaw (Fr) writes that “the reasons that push young, able men to risk death to come to Europe…are many and complex, and are not necessarily linked to [Senegal's] poverty,” but are rather a product of a country that is not advancing fast enough, whose youth can only look forward to a “bleak future.”

• Jennifer Brea

China

October 6 will be the mid autumn festival, Hung Huang tells her readers why she hates moon cakes.

• Oiwan Lam

Bahamas

A Jamaican newspaper article about the pan-Caribbean arts festival Carifesta confirms Nicolette Bethel's view that Caribbean governments fail to take culture seriously.

• Georgia Popplewell

China

The Chinese cartoonist Liao Bingxiong passed away on 22 September 2006. ESWN translates an articles from the Southern people weekly about the end of traditional Chinese Cartoon style with some typical Liao's political cartoons.

• Oiwan Lam

Japan

JP in Japundit reports that the new Abe Cabinet announces that the Japanese Imperial law needs to be revised in order to “ensure a stable male-line succession of emperors.” Although the public poll shows that 63 percent of Japanese favor revision of the Imperial House Law, with 72 percent supporting the concept of female emperors.

• Oiwan Lam

Japan

Debito reports that the new Japanese Cabinet opposes primary school English education. The new education minister Ibuki believes that Japanese language ability is going down and they should work on their mother tongue than foreign languages.

• Oiwan Lam

Tajikistan

Alexander Sadikov reports on the decision of Tajikistan's three most powerful opposition parties to sit out the upcoming presidential election and the decision of four smaller ones to field candidates though it is obvious the current president will be reelected. The decision of these four parties to compete, he says, is likely a display of loyalty to the government because their decision provides a democratic facade for the election.

• Nathan Hamm