Posted in Africa, globalization, tagged adoption, Africa, film, globalization, media, pauly shore, pauly_shore on 24 September 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m intrigued to watch the movie based on this trailer:
I’m convinced it’s a satire on white folks going to Africa to adopt babies. It’s nice to see Pauly Shore grown up and funny enough to do satire, or just humor that isn’t individually self-deprecating.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Africa, botswana, chinese, democracy, dictatorship, elections, indonesia, media, newspaper on 13 July 2009 | Leave a Comment »
International media coverage has always remained a mystery to me: who decides what gets in print? Marc Herman writes about the quiet coverage of the recent Indonesian election. It’s a thoughtful post about a mostly Muslim nation currently experiencing stable democracy despite a not-so-distant violent and dictatorial past and a contemporaneous good run of bad luck:
At [...]
Posted in Africa, Kenya, developing countries, globalization, health, hiv/aids, non-profit, tagged Africa, AIDS, AIDS orphans, film, globalization, health, health-care, HIV, Kenya, media, milton ochieng, public health, rural Africa, students on 26 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
NPR recently profiled two Kenyan brothers who started a health clinic in Western Kenya, where they’re from. Milton and Fred Ochieng’ attended Dartmouth for undergrad before heading to medical school at Vanderbilt. Milton graduated last year and seems to be doing his residency at Wash U; brother Fred is still in medical school. They lost both parents [...]
Posted in children, tagged children's books, diversity, media on 11 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I get tired in the quest to find some great reads for my mini-me (22 months old) — there are too many choices, and most of those either don’t catch her attention or are uninteresting to me. More than that, the majority of children’s books have male characters (Curious George and Arthur are some popular [...]
Posted in Malaysia, tagged al jazeera, kuala lumpur, media on 14 October 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When the world’s first global English-language news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East launched last November, I almost peed my pants. Finally, a voice to challenge the Anglo-American worldview which dominates global news channels. Never did I imagine that almost a year later, I would be sitting on the 60th floor [...]
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