China: Inside an iPad factory
Photo: Daily Telegraph The New Yorker's Evan Osnos interviews Li Liao, an artist who got himself hired by Foxconn in Shenzhen so he could make a gallery exhibit of the experience. Not quite as bad as...
View ArticleFiji: trouble in Paradise
Photo: WikimediaFiji's blogwires are humming with discontent at Prime Minister Bainamimara's decision to scrap a draft Constitution that would have required respect for democratic principles. The...
View ArticleSpain: Crispulito the hedgehog
From the Spain-based Sounds In The Hickory Wind:Hedgehog Fetishism RevisitedMy spiny co-blogger is a creature of strange habits. I have previously accused him of having an underwear fetish as he will...
View ArticleChina: Death of a master
Leading Chinese blogger De Day reported the death of Master Nan Huai-Chin in September. Until now, I had never heard of Nan, though he has a following among Western Budhhists. De Day's post (oddly,...
View ArticleMonaco: Fighting Hollywood and Fleet Street
There's a whiff of invidious republicanism in the entertainment and news media, but the Empire fights back...The Monaco Times reports that the Palace disapproves of the forthcoming film about the late...
View ArticleCentral African Republic: Rain three months early
Garoua Boulai, Central African Republic - from Google MapsIt's not just in the UK and USA that we've been having unusual weather. Susan from the C.A.R. reported an unexpected tropical downpour on...
View ArticleSpain: The pain in Spain leads many to complain
Picture: WikipediaThere was a time when Spain was as exotic and unexplored to Brits as Mali; but even now, there is much about the country that the tourist probably doesn't know, and I certainly don't....
View ArticleAustralia: Eyeball
At the far reaches of the lounge bar in the Wayside Tavern the manager was cornered, by three angry men, total strangers all and oozing menace.Their intention was to "get" him as retaliation for the...
View ArticleSpain: The Slow City movement
Time. It is the one thing that many of us feel like we don’t have enough of. Generally, we move through our lives at a rapid pace with mobile phones permanently on and our attention fixed on work and...
View ArticleChina: Scaring away the Nian
It didn't start off like in the brochure. A few minutes into the lesson, the teacher left Mark alone with nearly 40 Chinese children, some of them with special needs and all of them unable to...
View ArticleSark: I have nothing to say
Looking to expand the World Voices bloglists, I happened upon Sark. Surely there could only be one blogger there, bearing in mind that the island has a population of only around 600? I've taught in...
View ArticleSpain: Corruption - or just "the way we do things here"?
Californian business journalist Wolf Richter reports (htp: Zero Hedge) on the Spanish corruption scandal, which is particularly hot as it comes at a time of general economic pain for ordinary...
View ArticleGreenland: Strawberries and global warming
The first thing Dani noted as a newcomer to Greenland in August 2012 was the extraordinary melting of the ice sheet. The local potato harvest was on course to rise from 40 tonnes to 250; and as...
View ArticleRussia: Driver etiquette
(Bonus footage for grown-ups!)Former Tatarstan resident James Higham gives his experience of motoring among the Ivans:Jesse's running a vid on Russian roads and drivers: http://youtu.be/hlxHPJAONpE....
View ArticleIceland: Rise of the vigilantes
Over the past years I’ve come to notice a worrying trend here in Iceland. A trend that some people probably won’t dare to talk about publicly. I’m talking about vigilantism, something one certainly...
View ArticleSierra Leone: Forgiveness
Emily heard the religious call while in high school, put herself through medical training and left Oregon to work as a nurse in post civil war Sierra Leone. This is how she reacted to a break-in:I...
View ArticleUSA: New York Nose Nav
Since moving to New York I have developed a rather odd and disgusting skill of being able to differentiate between the smells of the city. Not the nice ones, like freshly baked bagels or cupcakes, or...
View ArticleDjibouti: When giving is taking
Recently, Emily in Sierra Leone confronted burglars who had been her friends. What made the crowd gasp most was not her overlooking the theft, but her offer to continue the friendship. She comments,...
View ArticleFrance: John Ward back up and fighting
Major UK blogger John Ward has just moved from Devon to south-west France, and is bringing the farmhouse up to scratch. But he still finds time to continue his furious examination of the worlds of...
View ArticleFiji: Bainimarama has a tiger by the tail
All in the same boatFriday's Daily Mail article about the vicious mistreatment of escaped prisoners in Fiji is throwing sparks into the parched political underbrush. Although the story - based on a...
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