The World is Talking. Global Politics

Montego Bay Day By Day posts photos of The Old Hospital - an area that many Jamaicans agree “should remain as one of the very few green spaces in the city.”

Bahama Pundit reports that a political storm “is brewing right next-door to us in the Turks & Caicos Islands, but most Bahamians don't have a clue about what's happening.”

Wen Yunchao posted an article that explained the history of 50 cent gangs since 2005 (zh).

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was arrested again by the police. Just My Thots issues an appeal to Mr. Ibrahim: “Drop your political agenda and start a new life as an ordinary Malaysian.”

The Cambodia government held a concert to celebrate the listing of Preah Vihear Temple as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. But tensions are not yet over. Thai troops are still stationed near the temple. Both Thailand and Cambodia are claiming the historic site.

The second part in China Digital Times‘ series of interviews with Chinese journalists is now up. First question: “How do you feel about the Olympics being in Beijing? What does that mean for the Chinese people?”

Always a cynic and hardly a hater, humor blogger Wang Xiaofeng posted this today (and only this) with the title ‘noise games', a play on the Chinese word for the Olympic games:

Marko Phiri at the Kubatana blog draws a parallel between those that justify sexual harrassment to women by the way they look or dress, with the current political situation in Zimbabwe where “women and children have ‘invited' the wrath of Zanu PF militias by simply voting for a party of their choice”. And he concludes […]

Addis Journal reported that singer Teddy Afro (popular for his protest songs) celebrated his 32 birthday yesterday in jail awaiting his trial. Mamá Etiopía [Es] posted the link to an online petition to free him saying: “… we have no idea if Teddy Afro is guilty or innocent. But we have no doubt in joining […]

Taras Kuzio believes that “the connections between the Yushchenko’s poisoning and Litvinenko’s murder are closer than at first seems.”