Viet Nam is a southeast asian country slightly larger than New Mexico that borders on China, Cambodia and Laos.
Formerly a French colony, according the the CIA World Factbook:
Since 2001, Vietnamese authorities have committed to economic liberalization and enacted structural reforms needed to modernize the economy and to produce more competitive, export-driven industries. The country continues [...]

China is widening it’s controls on the internet and is now targeting news sites.
Established news media needed permission to run a news Web site, it said. New operators had to register themselves with government information offices.
China has a dedicated band of cyber police who patrol the Internet with the aim of regulating content. Postings that [...]

The problem is that - at least at the moment, and long may it last - the weblog community determines its heroes and its trusted and noble citizens from smaller but finer-grained metrics than we do in the wider world. We determine who to read based on whether we’ve come to feel a relationship or [...]

Have you heard of OhMyNews?
Millions of people have and thousands of ‘citizen journalists’ particpate daily.
The staff at OhmyNews fills only two floors of a small office building in downtown Seoul, but it edits stories from thousands of “citizen reporters” across South Korea.
The 150 or so stories posted on the site each day range from breaking [...]

San Antonio through Waco and all the way to Dallas-Fort Worth are now experiencing a massive influx of evacuees. Local sources confirm to me areas north and west of Houston are running out of everyday items and gasoline. Estimated at perhaps three million people total and many of them are still in transit, or haven’t [...]

There has been an interesting development in a multiplayer online game, a MOG or MPOG or MMOG.
Millions of people participate in this kind of playing, often paying others to keep their character or characters going. Obessive. Like bloggers.
World of Warcraft has been an online multi-player game since 2004.
The game company adds new worlds (layers) to [...]

Controversial UK newspaper writer Robert Fisk wasn’t allowed into the US earlier this week.
He was on his way to a conference in Santa Fe and was not permitted into the US by immigration officials at Toronto Pearson Internationl.
Fisk writes for The Independent.
He spoke via satellite feed from a Toronto television station.
His name has become a [...]

The Western Standard weblog may be sued.
Kevin Libin, editor-in-chief made a blog entry regarding the relationship between Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew and his driver.
The blog entry stemmed from a Globe and Mail story.
You can find Globe and Mail updates here
Libin has added another entry to The Shotgun because of the publicity from the Ottawa [...]