Stories from 3 November 2006
Russia: Dostoyevsky's Translations Re-Designed
David McDuff of A Step At A Time announces that his “translations of Crime and Punishment and The Idiot are among five titles chosen for recovering by design artists to celebrate Penguin’s 60th anniversary.”
Russia: Moscow's (In)Accessibility
Perekhod: an underground walkway in Moscow – by Digenis.org The hype surrounding the Russian blogosphere's fate has subsided, and the collective attention has shifted to the fate of tomorrow's Russian March. One Moscow blogger, however, is concerned about something quite different: LJ user kmaka (quoted in a recent translation) and...
Argentina: Language and Authoriatarianism
Posthegemony looks at how authoritative regimes transform language and rhetoric to validate their governance and power. Specifically, he reviews some of the points brought up by Marguerite Feitlowitz in her book, “A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture.”
Voices from Kazakhstan
Welcome to our latest roundup of blog posts and online discussions from Kazakhstan Russian-language blogosphere. The Oil Business Kazakhstan boasts having unique oil and gas deposit, Karachaganak, 150 km east from the city of Uralsk in the northeast of Kazakhstan. Having an area of over 280 square kilometres, it holds...
China: Paint the city black
Being winter there aside, can you imagine the capitol of China adorned with a Tarzan theme? The Beijing Summit & Third Ministerial Conference of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is underway this weekend, and here is what some bloggers had to say: Shmily @ Mblogger.cn: 中非合作论坛北京峰会暨第三届部长级会议于11月1日在北京开幕了，坐在车上看着街上那红红的中国结、五彩的旗帜、友好的标语、喜庆的灯笼，突然有种声音自心而起，向每一根毛细血管漫延：我生活在北京，这里是中国的首都。呵呵······看着那相距不足百米即可相视而望的武警官兵，我也告诉自己：这就是北京，一个有着浓浓政治色彩的都市。 The Beijing Summit & Third...
Thailand: Pro-Democracy Taxi Driver's Suicide
Bangkok Pundit reflects on the suicide of a taxi driver. The driver hanged himself off a pedestrian bridge in Bangkok. His suicide note said that he was sacrificing himself for democracy. The same driver has earlier tried to kill himself by ramming his taxi into a tank immediately after the...
Malaysia: Remembering Japanese Occupation
Ooi Boon-Leong remembers life as a young kid in Malaysia during the World War 2 Japanese occupation. “We were disturbed by the Japanese only once when they came in trucks. We heard the rumbling of their trucks when they went over a bridge which they had to cross to reach...
Thailand: Loy Krathong Festivities
Don Gilliland at Bangkok Dazed complains about the excessive firecracker sound but otherwise likes the Thai festival of Loy Krathong “Loy Krathong is a beautiful Thai tradition. People all over the country flock to the nearest body of water on the full moon night in November and float a krathong...
Malaysia: Online News Site Barred From Party Convention
The Malaysian reports that popular Malaysian online site Malaysiakini is not being allowed to cover the ruling party UMNO's annual convention. “The ruling Umno began actively banning malaysiakini soon after the online media exposed the illegal logging by Umno Pahang of a vast swath of peat swamp forests in the...
Iran:TinTin in Tehran
In Forever Under Construction blog, we can discover one of Zartosht Soltani's art work:TinTin, famous reporter in comic books, in Tehran, an imaginary cover for TinTin's trip to Tehran.
Trinidad & Tobago: A geographically isolated communicator
Trinidadian blogger Karel McIntosh is interviewed by the Forward podcast about her experience as a public relations professional in the Caribbean and as a “geographically isolated communicator”.
South Africa: politics of reconciliation
Kameelah has a problem with “policy of reconciliation” in South Africa: mandela has been at the center of attention for quite some time as a greater leader and example of progressive nation building tactics. but when he goes on to lead the tribute to botha, i began to get worrried....
China: how to be together with Mao?
Wang Xiaofeng answers the question: how to be together with Mao Tse-dong by posting a few pictures for people's free association.
South Korea: Missle test reaction
Jamie in Two Koreas discusses about propaganda reports and commentaries on the missle test in Korea and U.S.
Japan: Dolphin meat
Kaishin in Japundit blogs about the recent discussion about dolphin hunting in Japan. Health specialists pointed out that bottlenose dolphin meat contains high quantities of mythril mercury, a dangerous toxic form of mercury, that may cause various ailments as brain or nerve damage. Lee in Tokyo Times also discusses about...
China and Africa: Africans Courted in China
Granite studio blogs about a brief history of China-Africa relation: China's leaders blame the West for failing to successfully engage African nations in mutually beneficial trade, but China's goals seem to have more in common with Western imperialism and neo-imperialism of the 20th century than Beijing's leaders would like to...
China: china daily news recruitment
Positive solution blogs about the recruitment process of the big elephant organization – china daily news.
Myanmar: Lavish Wedding
The blogger at Meanderings points to a YouTube video (now removed) of Burma's military leader Than Shwe's daughter. The blogger is saddened by the lavish lifestyle of the leader while the country continues to suffer.
Philippines: Honoring the departed
Most Catholic Filipinos celebrate November 1 as the day for honoring both the saints and the dead. Since many Filipinos visit their departed loved ones in cemeteries, November 1 is a holiday in the Philippines. Touched by an Angel describes the typical November 1 scenery in cemeteries: “All Saints Day...
