16 July 2007

Stories from 16 July 2007

Hong Kong: GV Editor Oiwan Lam faces court battle over Flickr photo

On May 11th, Oiwan Lam, Global Voices Northeast Asia Editor, committed what she says was a deliberate act of civil disobedience. Writing on the citizen media website InMedia Hong Kong, Oiwan called on her readers to post links to erotic websites and also included an artsy photo of a topless woman that she found on Flickr, the photo sharing site owned by Yahoo!. The post was originally published here, but has now been removed from the InMedia site and posted on a Wordpress.com blog. As Boingboing and others reported earlier this week, Oiwan's post has been classified as "Class II indecent" by Hong Kong's Obscene Articles Tribunal.

16 July 2007

Iran:Release jailed students

Ghomarasheghaneh has published the 14 photos of jailed members of Tahkim Vahdat, a progressive student organization.The blogger asks for their freedom.

16 July 2007

Malaysia: Candlelight Vigil

Oon Yeoh has pictures from the candle light vigil that was organized in support of blogger Nathaniel Tan. Nathaniel was detained by police last Friday.

16 July 2007

Thailand: Yunanese Food in Bangkok

Real Thai hunts down a Chinese restaurant in Bangkok that serves Yunanese food. Yunan is a province of China closest to South East Asia and some Yunanese people sought refuge...

16 July 2007

Bangladesh: Child Marriage

Voices of South on the issue of child marriage in Bangladesh, and how a 13 year old's classmates protested when she was to be married to a 23 year old...

16 July 2007