Stories about Chinese from September, 2007
China: Blogs ground down as National Congress gears up
The best approach the government was able to come up with to address any issues anyone might want to talk about as the Seventeenth National Congress draws closer was to pull the plug on entire IDCs. Tens of thousands of blogs gone already and still a month to go.
Hong Kong: Can Anson Chan Represent Pan-dem?
Anson Chan has announced that she will compete with Regina Ip on legislator's seat. The pan-dem tried to turn it into a battle for 2012 universal suffrage. Erynnyes wonders if Anson could really represent Pan-democratic force, as her image is more attached with former government official than a democratic fighter....
China: A Free Speech Court Case
Liu Xiao Yuan, a lawyer, blogs about his lawsuit against a blog hosting company, sohu.com, for deleting his posts. The court dismissed his lawsuit on Sept 12 and he called up several local mainstream media for news briefing, but none of the newspapers released the news (zh).
China: A Censored Lung Cancer Story
Minjian released an exclusive investigative story (as it has been censored by the Propaganda Department) about 4 mysterious deaths from lung cancer (zh). The 4 victims were workers in a pharmacy factory in Chongqin. One of the victims, Zheng, suspected that the cancer was related to chemical leaking as all...
China: Zhujian Delta Worker Band
Tang Wei Shan introduces a worker band, Green Band, in Zhujian Delta. The band was started 4 years ago in Shenzhen when two of the members were playing guitars in an open space. Their wish is to have singing tour around Zhujian Delta industrial zone. Their most recent performance was...
Taiwan: Losheng 911
Yesterday, Taiwan police forced into Losheng Sanatorium and evicted student and preservation activists. A video, Losheng 911, recording the history of Losheng struggle and the protest and eviction scenes has been put up in dailymotion. Coolloud had a citizen reporter account on the eviction (zh).
Hong Kong: Stop Writing Blog
MK noticed that there were less and less blogpost these days and he wondered why. One of his explanation was that bloggers were moving to twitter and facebook, where they could write less but keep in touch with a circle of friends. Probably the number of blog will still continue...
China: Senior sues would-be Samaritan
An older woman is knocked down as she tries to board a bus and breaks her collarbone. A young man, the first to have just exited the bus, helps her up and takes her to the hospital. After she accuses and successfully sues him, a moral debate sweeps across the blogsphere: are we to still lend a helping hand?
China: Popular Reporters’ Blogs Forced To Shut Down
Zuo Ai Chung wrote in v360 about the pressure reporter bloggers are facing these days. Many were forced to censor their own work (by deleting or editing their posts), some were forced to shut down (zh). Zuo has deleted his own blog.
Hong Kong: Apple Daily Reporter Rejected
Waiyin blogs about her trip to Sydney on APEC meeting: when she arrived at Chinese President Hu's Hotel, she found out that her reporter permit was different in colour and she could not enter the hotel as other Hong Kong reporters (zh). It is because she is working for Apple...
China: Democratic House Demolition
Minjian has a great report on the experience of democratic urban renewal in Zheguo town from Zhejiang province: every year, the town selected 270 people from 120,000 population and let them decide how to use the 50 millions public fund for development. In their urban renewal project, they managed to...
China: Stock Company's Ups and Downs
Mr zhang uses the example STjintai (600385), a company in the China stock market that went through record breaking ups (42 days exceeded the limit) and a recent 4 days limited downs, to show the lack of monitor (such as on insider trade) in the stock market (zh).
China: Destroying Home Sweet Home
Zenjinyan writes in her blog that everyone has a home, it shouldn't be a far fetched dream, but a basic human right. According to the report of the Centre on housing rights and evictions, in Beijing, because of the Olympics, more than 1,250,000 people have their homes destroyed; in Shanghai,...
China: Violent BBQ crackdown backfires
City administration officials in Chongqing attacked an illegal barbecue vendor, then the massive crowd which had formed attacked them, setting fire to the officials' vehicle; the riot squad was called in and the conflict went on into the early morning.
China: Song on GFW
Calon from bullog changed the lyrics of “I bet you they won’t play this song on the radio” into a song on Great Fire Wall: I bet you they won’t stop the G-F-W, I bet you they won’t show the (bleep) to you, It’s not that it’s (bleep) or (bleep)...
Macau: Gone with Development
The world's largest casino, $2.4 billion Venetian Macau Resort, opened on August 28th. Along with numerous development projects, Macao is just like a huge construction site now. Some people are worried that natural and cultural beauty will be sacrificed for the sake of urban development. Manfaiw laments(zh): “In the future,...
China: Let's Not Talk About Politics
Cao Zenghui from new media observe urged that people should focus on business rather than talking about politics in the blog: we don't need to talk about GFW (great fire wall) and politics to prove our existence(zh). Chung Nanhai commented that Cao's tactic was part of the politics in building...
China: Burning Down Illegal Home
Chao Mu blogged a new photo showing a child in a ruin -a place used to be his home and was burned down into ashes by the Shenzhen government because the houses are illegal (zh).
China: Charity pulled for thankless poor students
A lot of embarrassed discussion has come out of the scandal this past week which many are calling CharityGate (慈善门), when five of the nineteen lower-income university students sponsored by an impromptu charity group consisting of twenty-two businesswomen in Xiangfan, Hubei province had their second year of funding cut as...
Taiwan: It's all online games’ fault?
A fifteen-year-old teenager boy committed suicide because his parents no longer allowed him to play online games. Old Yuan and Old Yin doubt about the lack of teenagers’ voices(zh) on mainstream media reports, and Mr. Friday is questioning whether the problem is from Internet indulging as many report has inserted,...
Taiwan: What should be recalled? The Festival or the county's head commissioner?
12 years, since 1996, Yilan International Children's Folklore and Folkgame Festival has successfully played the role of train to pull the touring industry of Yilan county, integrated local community, and hence become the model of all the other burgeoning and upcoming cultural festivals held at every city, every county and...
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