8 September 2009

Stories from 8 September 2009

China: New real-name requirement

  8 September 2009

Rebecca MacKinnon from Rconversation discussed the implementation of real name registration in online discussion and pointed out that the system, started from South Korea, is becoming a global trend.

Yemen: Healthcare under the Spotlight

  8 September 2009

From Yemen, Omar Barsawad complains about the state of government hospitals and asks: “Hadhramout and Yemen as a whole, simply do not have the facilities to handle such kinds of ‘complications’. I have been wondering: if Egypt or Jordan can, why can't Yemen?”

China: Crowdsourcing subtitle translations

  8 September 2009

Activist Tan Zuoren, little-known outside China, is the inspiration for a new documentary from artist Ai Weiwei and his Sugar Jar posse. Featuring civil rights lawyers Liu Xiaoyuan and Pu Zhiqiang, Chinese netizens have since begun transcribing and translating subtitles for the film.