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26 October 2006

Daily archive · 7 posts

Stories from 26 October 2006

Chilean Cycling Bloggers

Written by Rosario Lizana · Latin America

Santiago, the capital of Chile, is one of the most polluted cities in the World (of which we are not proud). In this scenario a group of bike lovers, have developed...

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Voices from Central Asia and the Caucasus

Written by Ben Paarmann · Central Asia & Caucasus

Alpine Pastures - Jailoo (c) Christopher Herwig, www.herwigphotos.com It's time to strike our tents (or Kyrgyz yurts in the Jailoo in this case), the summer is over (although in Kazakhstan's...

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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Exploring the Pyramid

Written by Ljubisa Bojic · Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia

“Bosnian Pyramid? - Visocica Hill” - by sjareb It's been over a year since the whole Bosnian pyramid media fuss started. Still, many talk about the possible discovery of Europe’s...

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Arabisc: Rebellious Behaviour and the Quest for Intellectuals

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Middle East & North Africa

With the festive season wrapping up in the Arab world, Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has decided to ‘come out of the closet' and drop a bombshell - making some of...

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Torture in Gambia, “Militocracy” in Africa, Press Freedom and Dirty Water and Gold

Written by Oluniyi D. Ajao · Sub-Saharan Africa

We begin this week's West African blogs round-up with a post in a Gambian blog, Home of the mandinmories, about a Gambian soldier being “Coerced, and tortured” over an alleged...

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DRC, Belgium: Anti-Kabila Demonstration

Written by Alice Backer · Sub-Saharan Africa

Congolese demonstrating in Brussels last weekend. Photo by Etienne Ngandu. In anticipation of the presidential runoff taking place this Sunday, October 29 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, opposing Jean-Pierre...

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Voices from South Asia

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

Bangladesh: - What does Bangladesh need now for a better future? Angelmorn has a ten point prescription. - Rifat of Close your eyes and try to see is critic about...

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Updates from 26 October 2006

Vietnam

Vietnamese God takes us on a trip through the pavements in Hanoi and posts pictures of the attractions.

• Preetam Rai

Singapore

Kway Teow Man has a balanced look at what Singaporeans call the Wee Shu Min fiasco. Wee Shu Min, a teenager wrote a sharp response to another Singaporean blogger's post about government assistance to help ease life in an increasingly globalised world. The teenager was ridiculed for her “elitist” views on several Singaporean blogs. Kway Teow Man urges restrain “However, people may wish to remember that at the end of the day, we're talking about an 18-year-old girl. If her birthdate falls in December, even if she commits murder, we cannot hang her.”

• Preetam Rai

Dominica

On the occasion of Dominica's independence, Kenny Green affirms the strength of the island's culture while sounding a warning: “Dominica has some major questions to ask itself about independence. Most of our income was from a protected relationship with Europe which we scream to regain, brokered by England. Our current dependence is on Cuba, China and venezuela. Our macro economy is being run by the IMF and World Bank. And our major export is people.”

• Georgia Popplewell

Thailand

Adam's Gecko in Bangkok looks at the rise of democracy and de-centralisation of power in Indonesia. The blogger has interesting perspectives from a trip to Indonesia in 1992, just after a pro-democracy movement in Thailand.

• Preetam Rai

Trinidad & Tobago

Christopher Yee Mon reports that Trinidadian rock band Tripped and Fallen is offering their latest album as a free download.

• Georgia Popplewell

South Korea

Robert Koehler at Marmot Hole introduces a film, “Expats”, in Pusan film festival. The director Wonsuk Chin's goal is to introduce Korea to Amercian audience: Korean Wave films are doing well in Asia, but there hasn’t been a substantial American movie filmed here in decades.

• Oiwan Lam

Ria Bacon offers an update to an earlier post in which she discussed the matter of a close-up photograph of the Prime Minister's notepad taken during a debate on a no-confidence motion, and run on the front page of one of Jamaica's news dailies: “The upshot is that journalists will no longer be allowed to sit in the gallery above the members, but will be limited to a 6 x 6 foot press box.“

• Georgia Popplewell