Stories about Chinese from July, 2008
Hong Kong: Election Video
Ip Iam Chong from inmediahk.net criticizes the video produced by the democratic party for the coming Legislative council election.
China and U.S: Holdings of U.S Securities
AhQ notices the big share in Chinese holdings of U.S securities especially after the recent financial crisis. The blogger comments that: no wonder Bush has to bow to the Chinese...
China: Insulting Olympics
Anti-CNN starts to monitor overseas organizations which produce images that insult the Beijing Olympics. A spotted case is the Sweden youth red cross.
China: Another Friend Missing at MSN
Mo Zhi xu missed another friend, Du Dao-bin, at his MSN list before the Olympics. Du has to stay in prison for 2 years and 5 months because of his...
China: How you feeling about the Olympics?
Joel at Fool's Mountain recently took to the street where he lives in Beijing neighbor city Tianjin to ask locals what they think about next month's Olympics. He took video...
China: 10 Political Myths
Ran Yunfei listed out 10 political myths in China, such as talks about savior, people, liberation, election, and etc.
China: Right Activists Arrested in Earthquake Zone
Ran Yun-fei re-posted a joint letter protesting against the arrest of Huang Qi and other right activists in Sichuan earthquake areas. The excuse of the arrest is “illegal possession of...
China: Bloggers take stand against web activist's arrest
"We would hate to see this case become yet another dismal human rights record raising international attention in the midst of this Olympic year. We regret to suspect, however, that the Chengdu police are at present committed to doing as much."
Taiwan: Observations on Yahoo! Taiwan's search filter
We hear about issues on censorship a lot on Global Voices Online and our Advocacy Project, and most of the cases come from Government policies or business self-censorship because of Government policies. However, fierce business competition can sometimes result in censorship...or a kind of.
China: Looking back at a campus shooting
“...the first few days with the cast were really strange, everyone kept whispering to each other wondering if I was a big kung fu master back in China.” Why does it always have to be so awkward when Chinese and Americans get together?
China: Olympics side-effect on industry
What will be the cost of presenting an unprecedented Olympics? A dialogue between a blogger and workers somewhat revealed the predicament met by heavy industry in China during the Games.
China: Olympic Intellectual Property Right
Two cold gets the information that in order to protect intellectual property right, bloggers can't do live video cast nor post Olympic photos on their blogs. Moreover, there are other...
Japan: Chinese Novelist wins Akutagawa Award
On Tuesday, the Akutagawa Award for Fiction, considered the most prestigious literary prize in Japan, was awarded to Chinese novelist Yang Yi for her work, “Tokiga nijimu asa”. Yang, who was born in Harbin and whose native language is Chinese, learned Japanese after she came to Japan in 1987. In this post, reactions to the award in Japanese and Chinese media, blogs and forums.
China: Yang Jia Harmonized
Lui Xiaoyuan got the message from Sohu blog editor that articles about cop killer Yang Jia have become sensitive and some of those have to be blocked.
China: Naked Government Official
Li Yin-he re-posted an article about “naked government officials” which refers to (quite often corrupted) officials whose family members have migrated overseas. According to the article, there are 1,080,000 overseas...
China: Tiananmen Security Check
Huang An-nian has a strong feeling that the security in Tiananmen has become stricter before Beijing Olympics.
China: Olympic Condom
Consumer products in China try very hard to capture the Olympic concept in their product. This Olympic condom ads has become rather popular in the internet.
Taiwan: Blog and Ads
PipperL sums up the recent discussion among bloggers on the issue of Blog Ads, such as, whether blogger should explicitly tell the readers that the post is an ads.
China: History of 50 Cent
Wen Yunchao posted an article that explained the history of 50 cent gangs since 2005 (zh).
Hong Kong: Buying Money
The Bank of China in Hong Kong has issued a set of commemorative banknotes for Beijing Olympics. Thousands started to line up three days ahead for buying the paper money...
Hong Kong: Summer T-shirt
Little Oslo collected a variety of Summer T-shirt with printed nude photos. So which one do you like?
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