Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from June, 2006
China: the dissoluteness of Olympic building chief
ESWN compared the reports in Mainland China and Overseas media concerning the corruption case of Beijing vice Mayor Liu Zhihua (the Olympic building chief). The former described his conduct by terms like “dissoluteness” and “degeneration” without much explanation. No comments and discussions were allowed in internet forum. Overseas media found...
China: Why Chinese people are not good at football
Li Yin-he, a Mainland Chinese professor on woman studies tried to explain why Chinese people are not good at football by confucian culture and the national character of a peasant state: Chinese masculinity are more intellectual (zh). Virtual China has translated part of her viewpoints into English. However, Korean also...
Japan: foreigners database
JP in Japundit reported that the Japanese government is planning to create a central database of information about all registered foreigners in the country for the purpose of “improving services to foreign residents.” Is that really for your own good?
Korea: blogging world cup
Yesterday it was the Korea first World Cup match. Andy in the Marmot's hole was doing semi-live blogging on Korea-Togo game; while Robert Koehler discussed about the joy killing comments made by Hankyoreh concerning how the nation seems to have forgotten the fourth anniversary of the deaths of Sin Hyo-sun...
