4 January 2007
Stories from 4 January 2007
Ukraine: Thoughts on Staying and Leaving
LJ user chio - of Simferopol, Crimea - writes (RUS): On life A friend came for a visit recently - he had emigrated to New Zealand some five years ago...
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LJ user chio - of Simferopol, Crimea - writes (RUS): On life A friend came for a visit recently - he had emigrated to New Zealand some five years ago...
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A post by Courtney Henry on the Talk Antigua blog expressing serious doubts about the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) and its usefulness to Antigua sparks off a lively comment thread.
Guangzhou city mayor recently claimed that, according to local household registration data, the GDP per capita will be over US$10,000 this year. William long notices that such claim is a kind of “impractical boasting” (zh).
Frank Yu from One Billion users comments on the recent McDonald's poster featuring Yao Ming with horns with a subtitle: “beef makes you strong”, but the whole image conveys a totally different message to foreigners:
Peijin Chen from Shanghaiist has written a review on the recent movie: curse of the golden flower.
Nazarian writes about hearing country music while listening to Voice of America as a child in Armenia and not understanding what it was or who listened to it until living in the United States two decades later.
Leila surveys the opinions of public figures regarding 2006 in Kazakhstan at neweurasia.
Registan.net discusses “sacred Turkmen traditions” (which are, in actuality, policy stances but called such in homage to the former president's constant citing of tradition in lawmaking) that the interim president is pledging to keep and, in welcome news, break.
Nice to note year after year, Bangalore Pride Parade is improving a lot. Hope next year we see some recoreded...
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What these killers have done is...
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Next time we will be there again :)