“I’ve never felt so utterly hopeless about Guyana as I do today, and it weighs all the heavier in this prolonged season of hopelessness about my own country, my own society”: As news spreads about the horrific massacre in the town of Lusignan, Nicholas Laughlin’s heart bleeds for Guyana.

China: Lunar new year approaches with tragedy growing
Crisis looms large across the south part of the country with the 2008 China Snowstorm showing no signs of letting up. Trains are trapped [zh] on tracks, cars stuck on highways, flights have been delayed and canceled up and down the east coast and at least one woman has been trampled to death [zh] beneath […]

Campground host
Need a camp host preferably a couple to maintain grounds (small campground) and store (small convenient and liquor) in the mountains of Colorado. Campground sits on the shore of small fishing lake (groundhog lake, colorado) in SW Colorado. Owners would ……

Jordan: Who’s to Blame for Accident?
From Jordan, Ola Aliwat discusses a tragic road accident and who’s to blame.

Kansas Severe Winter Storms
Emergency Declaration number 3282 declared on Dec 12, 2007

Middle East: Internet Outage Enrages Bloggers
What is a blogger without access to the Internet? This was the dilemma facing tens of thousands of bloggers in parts of the Middle East and Asia, after an optical cable in the Mediterranean was damaged, crippling millions of Internet users. No surprise, some of the region’s bloggers were fuming especially when they realised that it could take up to two weeks to fix the damage.

China: Squeezed To Death On Train
Xici.net posts a note by the family of a rural migrant worker. The 46 years old Sichuan rural migrant was squeezed to death on a train when she was travelling back home during lunar new year. The family hopes reporters can write about the case as the railway department should be responsible for passenger safety […]

China: Shaking Hands With Premier Wen
Zoula re-posted a citizen report from GuangXi which had been harmonized by major internet forums. The Citizen reporter was called upon by city leaders to perform in post office on disaster relief work and he managed to shake hands with premier Wen Jiabao (zh).