Stories about Freedom of Speech from September, 2006
China: cartoon withdrawn
One man band width reports that the cartoon on President Hu shedding tear had been withdrawn and the cartoonist was suspended.
China: Government's video-censorship foiled
When a young teacher is found dead outside her apartment building in Ruian, the police report concludes suicide, but her family and students suspect a cover-up. Over a thousand people take to the streets in protest, and are met with police violence. Protestors film the clashes on their cellphones, and...
China: media and the Judiciary
On september 12, the Supreme People's court announced a media spoke person system. Litianlun compares the announcement with the Madrid Media and the Judiciary Principle to show its potential impact (zh).
China: Chairman Hu's tear
ESWN blogs a Chairman Hu Jintao Cartoon: “For Whom Did The Secretary General Shed His Tears?” which was published at Guangzhou's XKB (News Express) on September 12. A Hong Kong based newspapers Sing tao points out that in the western world (plus Hong Kong and Taiwan), leaders like Bush, Donald...
China: digg battles
Lyn Jeffery in virtual China discusses how the mob culture in China destroys the development of digg.
China: Video save taskforce needed
When tens of thousands of Ruian, Zhejiang citizens came out to protest the official conclusion of an investigation into the death of high school teacher Dai Haijing, it didn't take long for the news—despite being banned from mainstream media—to flash through Chinese blogs and BBS’. When short videos were taken...
Syrian Blogsphere in a Week
To start off this week, we have Brian Anthony‘s testimonial of what his reflections were exactly five years ago, September 11, 2001. But as I was watching the towers explode over and over again, I couldn't really muster a sense of shock and amazement. And while I felt sickened and...
The Kannada Context: Post-modernist. Post-9/11. Concerns.
Firstly, let us remember the victims of 9/11. Let us wish that the world leaders gather enough sense and courage to fight the root cause of terrorism, and not just resort to paranoiac ways like “racial profiling”. Like they say do not attribute malice to that which can be sufficiently...
Lebanon: Field Trips, Wardrobe Personification and Poetry
Have you wondered why most women like shoes? Or can blogging be life threatening? Then read on and see what answers the Lebanese Blogosphere has. This week’s blogs have topics that are as serious as a threat to a fellow blogger for his political cartoons and as light hearted as...
China: managing foreign newswires
Xinhua released regulations regarding limitations on cooperation between Chinese media and foreign newswires yesterday (September 10). ESWN has translated some mainstream reports. China media project has summarized some blog comments on the issue.
South Korea: Ohmynews research
Ohmynews puts up a resarch paper written by Shaun W. Sutton on citizen reporting.
South Asia Blog Buzz
The latest from the South Asian blogs: Bangladesh: - Rajputro writes a satirical piece on how the load shedding (power cuts to manage shortage in electricity supply) in Bangladesh can be counterproductive. - Shafiur of imperfect|world|2006 is amused with the political dramas set out in Bangladesh as a form of...
The Table of Free Voices
Bebelplatz, a square in Berlin, situated near to state opera and the Humboldt University buildings has an infamous past. Seventy Three years ago (1933) Nazi youths instigated by their Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels burned around 20,000 books, including works by Thomas Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx and...
Cambodia: Jailed Professor
The Details are Sketchy blog takes on the appeal by Asian Human Rights Commission to free an arrested professor Tieng Narith in Cambodia. The blogger feels that the commission is not aware of the actual facts surrounding the arrest. “Let’s be clear. Tieng Narith was teaching racism and hate from...
China: making sense
Picking up the discussion concerning Meng Guangmei and Toiletgate in DANWEI , Sun bin carries on the discussion to the phenomenon of “Feeling the China elephant” in China-related internet forum and blogs written in English: China is an enormous country, both geographically and demographically. Everyone watching China, including this blogger,...
China: CCP and FoxConn
Chong at interlocals.net gives the readers more background about the reconciliation between FoxConn and the 1st Financial Daily: FoxConn's party committee secretrary said, “Party's task is to serve company's production and business.” Last year, the company allocated RMB 8 million to its party committee.
Uzbekistan: On Trial for a Song
The Long and Winding Road reports on the latest developments in the trial of Dadahon Hasanov, a musician on trial for writing a song commemorating the massacre of civilians during the May 2005 protests in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijon.
Belarus: Interview With Young Activist
Robert Mayer of Publius Pundit interviews a 22-year-old Belarusian activist who now lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Malaysia: Cellphone video captures police excess
When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public from their cellphones, little did they expect that their own misdemeanours would one day be caught in the frame. Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption and misconduct as a part of everyday...
Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome
Been a while since I last reported from the Blogodrome. It was not the holiday that stopped me – it was the mountain of work after. It seems every one is back from holiday demanding my time. Anyway I'm back, Iraq is the same-old, same-old, well maybe a darker version...
Hong Kong: privacy dispute
ESWN translates three controversial articles in defense of EasyFinder's position of refusing to apologize for pop song singer Gillian Chung backstage photographs.
