Posted by Elena Skochilo to Global Voices Online Early in June a sorrowful groan was heard from the Kyrgyz blogosphere: the great Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov died. Almost all Kyrgyz bloggers wrote about the death of a famous writer in their blogs. Erne_raj wrote [ru]: Chingiz Torekulovich is no more… But he left his scent […]
China:国殇; Survival Stories in Quake
by Bob Chen We live in Shenzhen. Yesterday, when my mom was in a taxi home, she heard the driver muttering, “I have stopped my work for the entire 2 last days.” “Why so?” curiously asking. After a while of silence, he sighed: “I have been riveted by the TV, watching closely what was happening in […]
Bosnia & Herzegovina: New UNESCO Heritage Site; New Cross Memorial
by Elia Varela Serra One of the main news items in the Bosnian blogosphere this week has been the addition of the Višegrad stone bridge to UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The bridge, named after Mehmed Paša Sokolović, one of the most famous Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire, born in Višegrad in 1505, connects the […]
Don’t Be Pol Pot, Be Ortega: Madhav Nepal
General Secretary of the United Marxist-Leninist (UML), speaking in an election campaign gathering in Kathmandu today said that Nepal’s Maoists were terrorists and monarchists working against the very norms of democracy. Out of his 85 minutes of speech, he spent almost 65 minutes on trying to teach people that the Maoists do not believe in […]
Pakistan On The Long Road To Freedom
Two events in the last three months have radically changed the course of Indo-Pak relations, and have the potential to radically alter the future direction of South Asian history. The first of these events took place on November 24, 2007. On this day, a suicide bomber detonated himself beside a bus at the entrance of Camp […]
A death on Valentine street
Frank did not know many people in his small New England town. Frank was old — probably in his 80s. He lived alone in a tiny apartment on Valentine Street. I don’t recall ever meeting him in person, but he told me that we had met once. He started to call me on the phone […]
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