• Ferenc Gyurcsány’s famous words: “We lied morning, noon and night” has succefully taken him to lead the poll for this month’s Bad Democracy Award. To bag the award, he has to compete with the likes of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, General Sonthi Boonyaratglin of Thailand, and Japan’s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. [Open Democracy]
• Index.hu has the list of upcoming demonstrations in Hungary.
1. Kossuth Square, continuously by the Hungarian National Committee. Purpose: forcing the government to resign.
2. Vorosmarty Square, October 4, 2006 by the left wing supporters. Purpose: to express their solidarity to the government (the PM’s party, we could say).
3. Kossuth Square, 4 PM, October 6, 2006 by Fidesz. Purpose: to get Prime Minister Gyurcsány resigned.
4. On the side of the Gerbeaud-house, in the Harmincad Street, 5 PM on October 5, 2006. Purpose: to save the Gerbeaud cukrászda (wtf??)
5. In several places of Hungary, October 6, 2006 by the National Association of Hungarian Farmers Societies and Co-operatives. Purpose: to get attention due to the “impossible” situation of farmers.
6. Budapest (place is not known yet), October 19, 2006 by National Union of Students. Purpose: to demand the government to erase the tuition fee. [Index.hu]
• US President George W. Bush may visit Indonesia next month to meet the leader of the world’s most populous Muslim nation, seen as a close ally in Washington’s global fight against terrorism, officials said Tuesday. Ah, so we are no longer haven for terrorists? [International Herald Tribune]
• Indonesia owes Malaysia an apology for creating the worst environmental crisis in the neighboring country since 1997 with the hazardous haze from the firest in the forests in Indonesia. [MSNBC]
The Prime Minister’s office is covered by the haze
• A healthy chicken could be a carrier of the bird flu virus although it shows no symptoms of the illness, a health official warned Wednesday. Meanwhile, serology tests on 11 dogs kept by the family of the bird flu cluster in Indonesia have shown that dogs could not spread the virus. [Jakarta Post]
• Good news for the guys, Paris Hilton said she’s single again. Oops, wrong blog!
