Global Voices Online

The Caribbean Beat blog celebrates the diverse tastes of a West Indian Christmas!

Nurse Melly tells the near-tragic tale of two young puppies, Jack and Jill - and she's relieved to report that, “like all good human stories, the good guys won.”

India-based Haitian blogger NatifNatal ponders (Fr) India's matrimonials. Whereas in the West, she says, people fall in love and then marry, “here you marry the one your parents chose along many parameters such as caste, religion, income, dowry etc… and then, after many years of joint living, you just can't do without him.”

Since the Bahamas' Public Disclosure Act deems that Parliamentarians (along with other “persons in public life”) must report their income, assets and liabilities to the Public Disclosure Commission by December 31 each year, Rick Lowe is concerned that the latest published disclosures were almost six years ago.

Granite studio trys to explain Chinese's public manners by looking into the cultural character.

Frog in a Well announces a project on the East Asian Libraries and Archives wiki. The project will will serve as a central collection site for information about archives, libraries, museums, etc. in East Asia that are of potential interest for anyone doing research on or in East Asia.

Experts believe that the twenty-million year old white dophin in Yangtze River was extinct. Lonnie Hodge puts up a story in Onemanbandwidth.

Jeremy Goldkorn in DANWEI reports that Wang Xiaofeng, a famous Chinese blogger, is the Time magazine person of the the year.

ESWN blogs about his memories of Star ferry and explains why he did not join the protest to “preserve” the site.