Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from October, 2006
China: the elephant in the newsroom
The imagethief discusses about the quality of China's English language media, which, in his opinion is related to the elephant in the room studiously overlooked in the article above.
Hong Kong: protecting bloggers?
ESWN translates Sidekick's post pleading local media to protect the privacy of bloggers(zh); the recent case is a 12 years’ old girl saying in her blog that she wants to kill her father after being beaten. Florence thinks that sidekick's plead would be in vain as the mainstream has their...
South Korea: the passing of former president
Matt summarizes the life of South Korea former president, Choi Gyu-ha, who passed away last Sunday.
Japan: allow Japanese nukes
Mutantfrog comments on the idea and argument on Washington Post that the US needs to allow Japan to arm themselves with nuclear weapons to protect against North Korea: I’m frankly surprised at how bad his reasoning is in this column, how much it sounds like the writing of an enthusiastic...
Japan: right winging it
JP blogs about some recent right wing activities in Japan in Japundit.
Japan: first lady
Kaishin in Japundit blogs about the public opinions towards the new Japan first lady, Akie Abe.
China: defending political poem
The prosecution of a SMS political poem written by a local civil servant, Qin Zhongfei in Pang Shui in Chongqing city, has raised great concern from local journalists and bloggers. Li Tian Lun comments that the poem was a great political poem and local government should accept criticism by people.(zh)...
China: writers meeting
Maryannodonell blogs about her experience in participating the second nanshan district writers federation council meeting on literary creativity in her Shenzhen fieldnotes.
China: new labour law
Fons Tuinstra in China herald blogs about some background fact and fiction concerning the new labour law. Interlocals.net also have some more background information.
China: history book
Shang Peijin in Shanghaiist has translated an interview with a Chinese historian Zhu Xueqin on Shanghai's new history text book, which gives more emphasis on people's history.
China: 70 years anniversary of Lu Xun's death
Lyn Jeffery in Virtual China suggests some sites to visit around the 70 years anniversary of Lu Xun's death. Lu Xun has been considered as the father of modern Chinese literature.
China: water in Beijing
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translates a discussion about water conservation in Beijing, one of the measure is a ID system for water consumption.
Korea: North Korea nuke analysis round up
Kotaji puts together analysis on North Korea nuclear test and its effects.
Korea: Mount Geumgang Tourism project
Occidentalism summarizes the buzz over Mt Geumgang tourism project. Reports said that Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill demanded the supension of “inter-Korea project” as a part of the sanction against North Korea nuclear test.
China: Agricultural bank of China
Logan Wright points out that Agricultural bank of China is following the bailouts and the overseas listings of the other large state-owned banks (Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank). This time it may ask for a USD$100 billions tag!
China: Social harmony with one child policy?
Positive solution discusses whether social harmony is possible with one child policy.
China: Satiric SMS or libel
Joel Martinsen in DANWEI translated an article from Nanfang daily on a prosecution resulted from a political poem in Chongqin.
Taiwan: mobile coffee
Funck Chen at CCB.2.0 blogs about the cultural history of mobile coffee house. The first coffee car appeared in 1999, and now becomes a national landscape and the drivers of moible coffee house are usually the best tourists’ guides (zh).
Taiwan: Taipei Mayoral election
Michael Turton blogs about the coming Taipei Mayoral election, which reflects on the political effects of the anti-president campaign.
China: censorship
Brian Chan in China Media Project reports on another censorship case. This time it is about a ban on all coverage of an incident at a county school in China's western Gansu Province where the principal was allegedly found to have drawn blood from scores of pupils over several years...
China: business social responsibility
Fang Jun at mindmeter blogs about China Entrepreneur Summit 2006. This year the them is “Chinese business ethics at the age of Globalization” (zh).
