5 July 2007
Stories from 5 July 2007
China: Female reporter fist fight
ESWN translated a blog post by a female reporter in a mainland local newspapers China Times, who got into a physical fight with a colleague during an editorial meeting. The...
An Insider's View of the Japanese Meat Industry
A recent scandal involving a Japanese company from Hokkaido selling pork disguised as beef has once more eroded people's confidence in the quality and safety of their own food. One blogger provides a sobering warning, from first-hand experience working in a meat processing plant, about the lax enforcement of quality controls within the Japanese meat industry.
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Kazakhstan: Bloggers discuss politics
This week the Kazakh blogosphere is brimming with post about the country's all-powerful President, Nursultan Nazarbayev. He decided to rename a whole city and has continuous trouble with his former son-in-law. And there's much more that Kazakhstani have to say about what's going on in their country.
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Rwanda: Foreign aid workers who live like kings
Foreign aid workers in Africa and elsewhere are often criticized for living far removed from the populations they are supposed to serve. How can people who spend their time zipping around in air-conditioned SUVs, tinted windows rolled to the top to shut out the noise and the dust and the people hope to be effective, the argument goes. Les aventures du Civiliste Guillaume wades through Rwanda's alphabet soup, writing about the legion of aid and relief agencies station in the country and finding reasons both to criticize and defend those who have come to help.
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