GlobalVoices in Learn more »

13 September 2007

Daily archive · 4 posts

Stories from 13 September 2007

Photos posts
Iran: Dogs arrested

Written by Juliana Rotich · Iran

The blogger Dastan reports on the arrest of dogs by Iranian police on September 9th, to rid the country of ‘western influences’ and ‘immodesty’. The dog owners are shocked at...

· 26comments · read »

Afghanistan: Remembering September 11, 2001

Read this post.
Written by Joshua Foust · Central Asia & Caucasus

Joshua Foust spent September 11, 2007 thinking about what he calls "the original war on terror," in Afghanistan. He collects local opinion and searches for hope amid the chaos.

· 5comments · read »

Kazakhstan: Energy Twists and Media Tricks

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Be it the crisis of the country's biggest oil project or the biases of the national media: Both big stories from Kazakhstan this week demonstrate that power is concentrated in very few hands, while social indicators point at huge income inequalities.

· 2comments · read »

Japan: Prime Minister Abe Steps Down

Read this post.
Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

After less than a year in office, with approval ratings dropping to record lows after a recent humiliating upper house election defeat, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo finally took the step many had been demanding on Wednesday and declared his intention to resign. The timing of the move, which brought the prime minister yet more criticism from politicians and the media, doesn't seem to have gone down very well with bloggers either.

· 2comments · read »

World regions

Countries

Based on the Wikipedia list of countries, details.

Languages