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15 November 2006

Daily archive · 6 posts

Stories from 15 November 2006

The Week that Was - Bolivian Blogs

Written by Eduardo Avila · Latin America

Juancito Pinto was a little drummer boy, who had traded his drum for a rifle during the War of the Pacific of the 1880s. He perished at the hands of...

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Russia: Lenin's Mausoleum

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, USSR, 1985 - by JoeBlogger Three months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legendary “sound-manipulator” Sergei Kuryokhin proved quite convincingly (albeit facetiously) that Vladimir Lenin...

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China: Touchy topics

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia, South Asia

BBS forums used to be the venue of choice to make oneself seen and heard in the Chinese blogsphere, until blogs came along and most of the biggest and best...

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The Moroccan beauty shines in France while more Moroccan bloggers “call it quit”!

Written by Farah Kinani · Middle East & North Africa

It's alarming. More and more Moroccan bloggers are taking vacation from blogging! And while A Moroccan haute couture stylist displays proudly his identity by transforming a Caftan into an elegant...

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Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

Written by Salam Adil · Middle East & North Africa

Crimson rain,vermillion maneAnd few people walking, few people sane From Carmine and Cardinal to Persian Red To Falu to Gules to just a Red, plain! From Scarlett of screens and...

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Voices from Zimbabwe

Written by Zimpundit · Sub-Saharan Africa

It has been a busy two weeks in Zimbabwe. The major headline out of Zimbabwe over the last two weeks was the submission to President Mugabe of a vision document...

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Updates from 15 November 2006

Mali

Le Pangolin encourages (Fr) readers to go see Bamako, a Malian film directed by Abderrhamanne Sissako which tackles the issue of African debt. The film recently received the Grand Prix du Public at the Cannes Film Festival.

• Alice Backer

China

DANWEI studies the “Rules for handling re-education cases for Liaoning Provice security organizations” and outlines the 14 classes of individuals will not be given re-education for their involvement in prostitution.

• Oiwan Lam

China

ESWN comments on the recent figure on China riots which claimed to have reduced one fifth. Then he found out that there are two sets of figures one on mass incidents one on public order disturbances, however, it is unclear what is the difference between the two.

• Oiwan Lam