Latest posts by Paul Frankenstein
Cambodia: Genocide Tourism
Webbed Feet, Web Log is frustated by the West's conflation of everything Cambodian and the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent creation of the genocide tourism industry.
Asia: Daily linklets 12th August
Simon World, back from vacation, has resumed his valuable roundups of East Asian blogs and stories.
Ethiopia: Opposition Presser
Amber Henshaw, blogging from Ethiopia, reports that the country's two main opposition parties held a news conference rejecting yesterday's election results and calling on the government to form a government of national unity.
Cambodia: Meetup Roundup
Jinja of the Cambodian blog Webbed feet, Web Log has great minutes of the last Phnom Penh blogger meetup.
Cambodia: The Living Blogs of Cambodia
ThaRum's web has a great overview of the exploding Cambodian blog scene.
Armenia: Parties Dissolved
Blogrel notes that six political parties in Armenia will be dissolved shortly, and wonders if it's legit.
Niger: Tanja fiddles while Niger burns
President Tanja Mamadou of Niger has denied that there's a famine in his country, stating instead that it's only a “food emergency”, reports Black Star Journal.
Ukraine: Translator May Lose Job?
Neeka's Backlog brings us a report from a Russian newspaper that Natalya Dmytruk, the sign language interpreter for the state TV channel, may soon lose her job. Dmytruk played a key role in Ukraine's Orange Revolution when she silently informed her viewers that initial election results were fraudulent while her...
Ukraine: Too Much Time Watching the Soaps
Orange Ukraine debunks a number of myths about the state of government in Ukraine today.
Somaliland: Parliamentary Elections Postponed
Inside Somaliland passes on the news that Somaliland's Parliamentary Elections have been pushed back two weeks to the end of September.
Philippines: Impeachment Rules
The Sassy Lawyer's Journal wonders what's going on in the impeachment hearings in the Philippine House of Representatives.
Malaysia: The haze
One of the biggest immediate problems facing Malaysia right now is a thick layer of haze over peninsular Malaysia, leading the government to declare a air pollution emergency. Malaysian bloggers are, of course weighing in: Volume of Interactions lays the blame on ASEAN inaction; Jeff Ooi notes that the government...
Indonesia: Background on West Papua
Jakartass lays out the background and context for current events in the Indonesian province of West Papua.
Italy: Independent Press in Peril?
Italian blogger Luca De Biase looks at the takeover battle over Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest daily newspaper, and wonders if Prime Minister and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi is pulling the strings from behind the scenes.
Finland: Ride a Segway, go to jail
Finland for Thought passes on the news that it's illegal to ride a Segway on a public road in Finland.
Ethiopia: Addis Stories
Ethiopundit posts a history of master plans for Addis Ababa; in a way, it's also a history of the city itself.
China: One-Sided Asymmetrical Information Warfare
EastSouthWestNorth looks at the crafty strategy that the PRC is using in releasinginformation about imprisioned journalist Ching Cheong.
China: Can Chinese fans translate Harry Potter?
Danwei passes on the news that a fan-translated version of the very latest Harry Potter novel has been completed on-line, a month before the officially sanctioned translation is released.
UK: Being British
The UK blog Talk Politics has a long, thoughtful post about what it really means to be British.
France: Drink Local, Drink Montmartre! (WBW12)
Popular food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier writes about the vinyards of Montmartre, in Paris. While one does not normally associate Paris with the creation of wine, apparently a large part of what is now urban Paris had been planted with vines for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
Ghana: Why do we blog?
Ghanian blogger David Mends–who just started blogging yesterday–asks why do we blog?
