Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from December, 2006
China: Wang Xiaofeng is Time magazine person of the year
Jeremy Goldkorn in DANWEI reports that Wang Xiaofeng, a famous Chinese blogger, is the Time magazine person of the the year.
Hong Kong: Star ferry
ESWN blogs about his memories of Star ferry and explains why he did not join the protest to “preserve” the site.
South Korea: Will S. Korea Ratify Migrant Convention?
Koh Ki-bok from Ohmynews discusses about conditions of migrant workers in South Korea and urges the government to ratify migrant convention as soon as possible.
Hong Kong: erasing history, demolition of Star ferry and Queen's pier
The protest against the demolition of Star Ferry has been going on for four days. After the violent crack down by the police, protesters are now launching hunger strike. In December 14, at the eve of the Ferry's 49 years old birthday, the demonstrators organized a peaceful candle night. When...
Taiwan: travel 2.0
FUNCK CHEN applies the concept of web 2.0 to travel: a travel service that helps the tourists to define their own travel content and environment, etc. (zh)
Hong Kong: Star ferry protest
The protest for preserving Star Ferry has been on going for two days. Protesters had occupied the ferry for stopping the demolition until the police cleared the scene today (Dec 13) afternoon. Inmediahk.net has the most detailed citizen report since last night: including 1. whole town chasing after Michael Sun...
China: cultural bureau
Wang Xiao feng criticises that the Cultural Bureau does not promote culture in China because it defines everything new as “unhealthy” (zh).
China: more on dog crack down
Beijing city government recently invited Chinese and foreign journalists to visit the dog impounding facilities which is set up for all the unlicensed dogs they've caught in their recent campaign. Peijin in Shanghaiist puts together some reports.
South Korea:
Robert Koehler at Marmot's Hole blogs about the National Human Rights Commission's decision on not to look into human rights abuses occurring in North Korea.
South Korea: demand apology regarding racist programme
Michael Hurt has written an open letter to demand an official apology from Korean T.V station (KBS) regarding their earlier Global talk show programme which is considered as “racist and sexist stereotyping of foreign people”. Marmot's Hole also blogs about NGO statement on the issue.
Hong Kong: star ferry demonstration
Inmediahk.net has a citizen report (with pictures) on how citizen demonstrators successfully stop the demlition of star ferry yesterday (zh).
China: chinese police
Lyn Jeffery at Virtual China blogs about a special section in a citizen journalist website, Molive/Moobol(zh), which collects both positive and negative on-the-scene photos of policemen
Taiwan: election outcome
ESWN blogs about the gaps between public opinions and election outcomes in Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections. Michael Turton picks up the discussion.
Japan: wealth
Alexpappas in Japundit puts forward a local report about the distribution of wealth: Japan is home to a fifth of the world’s richest 10% of adults in terms of global household wealth…
Japan: organic architecture
Verena in pinkmag writes a feature story on organic architecture by Patrick Blanc, where plants can grow vertically into a garden building.
South Korea: racist foreign beauty programme?
Robert Koehler blogs about a TV programme, entitled The Beauties’ Chatterbox, which is considered to be racist by many viewers.
South Korea: spy case
Robert Neff at Ohmynews reports on the recent spy charge with a focus on a Korean American suspect.
Japan and South Korea: Dae Jang Geum pron
A Japanese adult channel/video company has turned the popular Korean drama “Dae Jang Geum” into an erotic drama – Robert Koehler from Marmot's Hole has more details.
Taiwan: death penalty
Michael Turton blogs about Anmesty International's campaign to eliminate the death penalty in Taiwan with more background information.
China and Japan: translating USA
The Japanese translation of USA is “rice country”, while the Chinese translation is “beauty country”. Zhaihua looks into historical documents and tries to explain why there is such a difference. One explanation provided by Chiang Kai-shek in 1934 was that “rice” is edible… (zh)
China: WTO and AIDS
Zeng Jinyan wrote a letters to AIDS volunteers about the potential threat for WTO TRIPS agreement on the supply of medicine to AIDS patients. She hopes that the Chinese government can do more to lower the price of AIDS’ medicine and protect the supply (zh).
