Global Voices Online

Swpave records a podcast featuring headlines and hot blogging topics for the last week gathered from HEMiDEMi(a social bookmarking service in Taiwan, just like a combination of del.icio.us and digg.com) along with 6 stories from Global Voices Online in Chinese for the last week. He says the making of this podcast took him about one and a half hour…however it was fun and vivid when recording short stories from GVO in Chinese.

Singapore blogger anonnymousxwrites visits and posts images from the Lantern Carnival at a park in Singapore. The mid-autumn festival is a Chinese traditional festival that is celebrated by hanging colorful lanterns and exchanging moon cakes.

Senor Enrique in Philippines blogs about a project to turn a busy Manila Street into a photographer's haven. “Only a couple of months ago I posted an entry about an initiative by Jaime Chua along with the Hidalgo Business Organization to gentryfy R. Hidalgo Street — to relocate the street vendors that clog the entire strip and turn it into a photographers' haven — a sprawling pedestrian’s promenade and at the same time promote the local photo industry, as well as attract a new wave of photography enthusiasts. It is now a reality!”

Wendy at Babasiga blog introduces the various dresses that the Fijian women wear.

Arie, an American living in Cambodia comments on the censorship in the country.

Students from South-East and rest of Asia are increasing going to China to learn Mandarin. Christina, an Indonesian student in Fuzhou, Southern China throws a potluck party to welcome her new classmates from all over Asia and beyond.

The blogger at Details are Sketchy downplays the rumours of a coup in Cambodia due to the extensive hold the ruling party has on almost every aspect of Cambodian state. “Indeed, the situations in Cambodia and Thailand are massively different. The ruling CPP has governed Cambodia with an iron fist for the better part of 30 years. It controls the military, the national police and every state-run apparatus in the country, from the Ministry of Interior down to the local block captain.”

Tahiti: Littérature, Musique et… (Fr) offers a primer on classic Tahitian cinema.

Alain Mabanckou, a novelist and poet from Congo-Brazzaville now living in California, pays tribute (Fr) to Polish-Jewish writer André Schwarz-Bart, author of Le Dernier de justes who passed away last weekend. Schwarz-Bart, who grew up in France during the German occupation, lived in Guadeloupe with his wife, writer Simone Schwarz-Bart.