· July, 2008

Stories about Hong Kong (China) 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.

22 July 2008

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...

16 July 2008

Hong Kong: Sexy Photo Victim

A Hong Kong netizen uploaded photos from the Edison Chan sexy photogate to an overseas server and linked it back to local forum was sentence to three weeks detention without...

9 July 2008

China: Olympics reporter barred entry

Roland Soong at EastSouthWestNorth translates articles from two Hong Kong dailies of opposing views on the news that one of those newspapers’ Olympic beat reporters has been refused entry and...

4 July 2008

Taiwan: Conflict over Diaoyutai Islands

On June 11, a Taiwanese recreational fishing boat United(聯合號) sank following a collision with a Japanese coastguard vessel 11km off the disputed Diaoyutai(釣魚台) (Japan: Senkaku) islands, an island chain simultaneously...

2 July 2008