· October, 2007

Stories about Chinese from October, 2007

China: Sorry To Taiwan Fellow

  11 October 2007

Yesterday (October 10) is the national day of Republic of China. Bonnae from 1510.com takes the opportunity to say sorry to fellows in Taiwan. In respond to the news that Taiwan winner of the World Cyber Games was verbally assaulted by Mainland Chinese participants as he showed the nation's flag...

Hong Kong: Say No To Oriental Daily News

  10 October 2007

The Oriental Daily News decided to sue an Internet discussion board Uwant for slandering. Syaoran urged netizens to protest against the bullying of individual by big company (zh). He posted some newspapers reports to show that the article in the discussion board is based on facts.

China: World Record

  10 October 2007

Voice in V360 have a list of Chinese records in the world (zh): 1. accounts for 80% death in mine accidents; 2. accounts for 30% suicide rate in the world; 3. has 7 cities in the top pollution list; etc.

China: Mao's Temple

  10 October 2007

Tiger temple writes about “Chairman Mao Tse Dong's Temple” in my 1510. It is built in 1993 in Wang Shan, Shan'xi.

Hong Kong: We Are Ready For 2012

  9 October 2007

Rebuild Hong Kong has appropriated the Beijing Olympic 2008 theme song for 2012 universal suffrage movement in Hong Kong. The music video is up at Youtube.

China: Chinese Blogger Conference 2007

  8 October 2007

The Chinese Blogger Conference 2007 is opened for registration now. This year, it will take place in Beijing, Nov 3-4. There are already 163 people registered for the conference (zh).

China: Government Auditing Report

  8 October 2007

Ni-ming comments that the Audit Department is like Sisyphus in its auditing work as it doesn't have any significant impact on the government officials (zh). According to the report, 49 government departments has RMB16.3 billion (US8.2 billion) unjust and illegal accounting and during the auditing period, a total of RMB17...

China: Library

  8 October 2007

Ran Yun-fei from Tianya criticizes that the library management in China is designed for thought control (zh). Dissent voices have been censored away.

China: Today's Myanmar, yesterday's China?

  8 October 2007

In John's round-up of Chinese bloggers’ responses to the Saffron Revolution, he mentioned that some Chinese bloggers used "this incident as an opportunity to reflect on the state of China's own democratic movement." Some of them even link the Saffron Revolution to the political disturbance of Beijing in the 1989's...

Hong Kong: Where's The Patient's Right?

  5 October 2007

Here is a brief summary of Hegel chong's story in his blog (zh): his father had gone through an operation in a private hospital in Hong Kong and have to stay in the ward for a week. However, because of the construction on top of the building, the patients’ wards...

Hong Kong: Global City Transportation Network

  5 October 2007

Chu from zoomimagining comments on a talk given by Arjun Appadurai on the global city transportation network (zh). He feels that the situation in Hong Kong is similar to Appadurai's description, the segregation between rich and poor is very serious because of the government's planning policy.

Hong Kong: PLA Berth Won't Open To Public

  5 October 2007

Hoidick from inmediahk.net quoted from the planning department in a public forum that the future People Liberation Army Berth in Central waterfront, wouldn't be opened to public access (zh). Earlier on, top government official openly said that the PLA berth would be opened to public access when it is not...

China: Land Price

  4 October 2007

Yaoblog calculated the land price differences between the land expropriation price and the government listed price to the developers (zh). It is up to RMB4-500,000,000. Where does the money go then?

Hong Kong: Internet Censorship

  4 October 2007

Ah yeah from inmediahk.net interviewed Charles Mok on Hong Kong government's policy in Internet Censorship (zh). In the past, the government would consult with the ISP on their policy, however, recently they choose to set up some court case for their new policy without consensus. The change of attitude may...

Hong Kong: An Old Letter

  3 October 2007

Seechuen found an old letter written in 1974 in an old book. He googled the names in the letter and returned it to the owner (zh).

China: Daughters At Home

  2 October 2007

Kanchai comments on a popular T.V drama, Daughters At Home, in his blog (zh). The story is about a happy family with three kids. However, such kind of ordinary happiness is not ordinary at all as family structure has changed radically in the past few decade.

China: Coral Studio QQ Version

  2 October 2007

Coral Studio is a lab set up in Beijing Technology University. Recently a programmer has developed a QQ beta version that help the QQ user to get rid of the advertisement when they are using QQ. The case ended up in a criminal arrest of the developer. Keso found the...

Hong Kong: District Council

  2 October 2007

As the District council election is approaching, erynnyes from Those were the days wrote an article on the diminishing power of the district council in the past 10 years (zh). The councilors don't have much resources and are acting like volunteers in the districts.

China: Lunquan Land Expropriation

  1 October 2007

Memedia has a special issue on Lunquan land expropriation story(zh). Local villagers are fighting against the government's illegal land expropriation. Even though the central government has showed concern over the forced farm land expropriation in the district earlier this year, the local government continued to destroy the farm land. Bloggers...

China: How Much Should Be the Average Salary Of Chinese Worker?

  1 October 2007

Xueyong tried to calculate a fair average salary for the Chinese Worker (zh). Using the statistic from United Nation, an average worker in China produces USD12,642 annually, while their US counterpart is US104,606 per year. If 39% be allocated to the worker, an average Chinese worker should have RMB3,246 per...

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