Stories about East Asia from March, 2005
Malaysian Minister VOWS faster and cheaper broadband
The Colours of a Little Part of Asia – A South East Asian blogging story by Mack Zulkifli It appeared shortly after Rebecca MacKinnon interviewed Jeff Ooi and this blogger in IRC. One of the things I had remarked upon was that the rate of infrastructural development for internet services,...
Bloggers in Malaysia Warn of Earthquake
A violent tremor was felt in parts of Malaysia, and bloggers, experienced in early detection of crisis when blogging about the Asian Tsunami disaster, came out with warnings. Those who I picked up blogging early on this issue are; Andreas from AlwaysWOW Peter Tan from Digital Awakenings FANTASIZED blog headlined...
The Malaysian Blogosphere: chat with Mack Zulkifli and Jeff Ooi
(photo courtesy Jeff Ooi) Malaysian bloggers Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli have been blogging up a storm lately about attempts by vested political and business interests in Subang Jaya, who want to build a “food court” in the spot where a badly-needed police station was planned. (The neighborhood where the...
Introducing Peter Tan
In the intro to his blog, The Digital Awakening, Peter Tan writes: I am a Roman Catholic Malaysian Chinese, born and bred in Penang, late-thirties, suffered spinal cord injury at eighteen, paralysed from chest down and afflicted with chronic kidney failure. This blog chronicles my life, thoughts and opinions. Chatting...
The China situation: Q&A with Isaac Mao
Chinese blogger Isaac Mao has been watching the latest crackdown on internet bulletin boards and website registration with great concern. I e-mailed him some questions which he was kind enough to answer: Rebecca: Up until now bulletin boards have remained the number-one way that Chinese communicate on the internet. Will...
Chinese protest BBS crackdown
Photos: 2005.3.18 Fete-Day for SMTH BBS on Community.webshots.com Xiao Qiang reports at China Digital Times that Chinese students have been protesting vigorously online – and more cautiously offline – after Chinese authorities began restricting access to some of China's most influential online bulletin boards . Xiao reports: From March 16,...
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