· February, 2008

Stories about Hong Kong (China) from February, 2008

Hong Kong: The Invisible Class

Henry porter comments on the newly released government budget report and points out the existence of an “invisible class”. Under the “winner takes the most, loser takes the rest” logic,...

28 February 2008

Hong Kong: The Death of a Bookseller

Law Chi Wah, a well known independent book store owner in Hong Kong, was killed by the collapsing book boxes in his small warehouse before Lunar New Years. His body...

25 February 2008

China: Human Flesh Search Engine

ESWN translated a story about a netizen's call for “human flesh search engine” to identify a malicious “uncle figure” in an online video. In the end, they managed to find...

22 February 2008

Hong Kong: Suspected to Resemble Gillian Chung

Duimanpark discusss about the funny language in the recent sex photo scandal and wonders if English speakers would understand the commonly used phrase in local mainstream media: “nude photographs of...

18 February 2008

Hong Kong: Apologize for What?

One of the victim of the sex photo scandal Gillian Chung finally broke her silence. In her statement she claimed that she was too innocent and she apologized for causing...

13 February 2008

Hong Kong: Another Hyperlink Case

The sex photo scandal has developed into another test case for the nature of hyperlink as “distribution” of indecent and obscene article. This time, the suspect posted a hyperlink of...

13 February 2008

Hong Kong: Netizen First Rally

Yesterday, Hong Kong Netizen had its first rally against police abuse of power in the sex photo scandal. Erynnyes hopes that local netizens can slowly develop into a civic force...

11 February 2008

Hong Kong: From Sex to Police Scandal

It has been 10 days that Edison Chen’s sex photos scandal occupied the front page of local newspapers (ESWN has summed up local newspapers report everyday.) The issue is not...

7 February 2008

Hong Kong: Super Prison

The head of Hong Kong police force Tang King-sing claimed that those who possessed class III obscene articles may violate existing law. Duimanpark points out that if the police were...

5 February 2008

Hong Kong: Greatest Scandal

Kenneth from Shanghaiist has summarized the greatest sex scandal in Hong Kong concerning various popstars. Interlocals.net has an article on the political debates and implications of police crack down of...

5 February 2008

Hong Kong: GdotTV.com

G stands for homosexuality, bisexuality and transexuality. GdotTV is the first internet channel in Hong Kong, contributes to this minority circle.

5 February 2008