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November 11, 2008

Southeast Asia celebrates Obama’s victory

Southeast Asian bloggers are celebrating the victory of President-elect Barack Obama. In fact, Obama's election success has led many bloggers in the region to reflect about the need for change in their local politics.

Obama and McCain in Singapore

Aggregated from: Singapore 2 India

Our congrats to the new President-elect Mr. Barack Obama, who made history by becoming the first African-American to lead America. Our wishes to Mr. John McCain, who came close in popular votes in spite of everything stacked against him. Obama's younger feel combined with the economic crisis and unp...

November 5, 2008

The view from the Pacific (and its environs)

As the first results come in, what are people living in Oceania and Asia thinking about the election? John Liebhardt brings us the latest reactions from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and the Philippines.

November 3, 2008

Global Experts Liveblog the Election

The Morningside Post (a publication of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs) will be liveblogging Election Day results. Bloggers from Brazil, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Russia and the UK will be joining Americans in covering the event.

October 13, 2008

Southeast Asia: Views on U.S. elections and politics

U.S. elections matter to many people in Southeast Asia. Both U.S. presidential candidates are popular in the region. McCain was a former Navy pilot during the Vietnam War while a very young Obama lived in Jakarta for five years.

June 11, 2008

Worst Place to Be a Terrorist

Aggregated from: SuperFrenchie

Foreign Policy Magazine has produced a list of the worst countries in the world to be a terrorist. Contrary to its softy image in the U.S., France is number one. Jordan, Egypt, Singapore and Russia complete the top 5. Of course, the article does point out that in order to achieve this ranking, Fran...

June 7, 2008

US blogger detained in Singapore

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that blogger Gopalan Nair has been detained on charges of insulting a Singaporean judge during a high-profile libel case. According to the report (via Jeg): In his final posting before his arrest, Nair challenged Lee Kuan Yew to act on a threat he said....

April 18, 2008

Singapore: Praise for Hillary Clinton

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

Blogging from Singapore, Blowin' In The Wind describes U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton as “passionate and true to her convictions.” ...

February 19, 2008

Democratic Primary in Smoke-Filled Rooms

Aggregated from: Cakeman

I am damn freaking happy because today was the first day in my entire life where I spent the whole entire night on work. Normally its like when I reading about United Nations I will click click click through wiki and end up in Starcraft II or something. But today I was actually friggin on task. Ok I...

February 4, 2008

Obama joins Bud Light!

Aggregated from: Blowin' In The Wind

Imagine scooping the New York Times! I am so pleased to see the Times running a story comparing the Obama and Hillary websites a day after I wrote about the two sites! We even agree that Obama has the cooler website! "Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?", asks the Times. It ignores one important fact: ...