October, 2010
Stories from October, 2010
22 October 2010
China: My father is Li Gang!
The son of a deputy police director in Hebei province killed a young woman in a traffic accident on October 16 and reportedly shouted to an angry crowd, "Go ahead and sue me, my father is Li Gang". Now hundreds of people have been writing and sharing songs and poetry online in protest against bad behavior by offspring of government officials
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Uruguayans Mourn Death of Musician José Carbajal, ‘El Sabalero'
Singer and composer José Carbajal, nicknamed "el Sabalero," died of a heart attack on October 21 at age 66. Carbajal is considered an icon of Uruguayan culture. This year he was working with other artists and the One Laptop per Child project in Uruguay, Plan Ceibal, to perform in concerts for public school children around the country.
21 October 2010
Kazakhstan: Governance matters
Kazakh bloggers keep on discussing their favorite topic - the quality of public administration. Megakhuimyak raises the issue of professionalism of the higher officials and says that often it appears...
Angola: Journalist Murdered: Repression or urban violence?
On the 5th of September, journalist Albert Graves Chakussanga lost his life at the hands of strangers who in cold blood shot him down inside his house, in the neighbourhood...
I think the reason it stuck with me is that I was fired from my first real job--teaching at a...