Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from March, 2007
Hong Kong: Post-election analysis
ESWN put together various polls about Hong Kong people's evaluation of the two candidates and priority in concerned issues, and provided a detailed post-election analysis of Hong Kong politics.
Hong Kong: Queen's Pier
Simon world has an update on the preservation plan of the Queen's Pier: a roadside Pier. Over the Rainbow explains the reason why Hong Kong architects insist to keep the Pier in Situ is because of the symbolism in its spatial relation with the city hall (zh).
China: Google Vs. Baidu
Peoples’ Republic of blogs three pictures that tell the differences between Google and Baidu.
China: Animal-dropping paper
Will blogs about the recent suggestion to turn Panda poop into wrapping paper, following Thailand's example in using elephant dropping. He drew some associations from the news.
East Asia: History Round up
Jonathan Dresner from Frog in a Well has written a history round up on issues such as comfort woman, Nanjing massarce, textbook, etc.
Korea and Japan: National Flowers
Ampotan has a nice post discussing differences in symbolism of Japan and Korea's national flowers: cherry blossom or sakura (Japan) and the Rose of Sharon or mugunghwa (Korea).
Hong Kong: “Election” result
Simon blogged about the media buzz about the result of the Chief executive election in Hong Kong – a result that has been known for 2 years.
China: World Factory?
Jacky and EPIN have translated a post from China Labour Watch on a Japanese businessman views China.
China: Journalist file: Zhang Jianhong
Angry Chinese bloggers opened a file for Zhang Jianhong, a freelance journalist, who was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment, plus a further years suspension of political rights, by the Ningbo Intermediate court on 19 of March.
China: Will Baidu Japan be Blocked in China?
Baidu has launched its Japan version. Its content includes Japan's Porn Images. Jeremy Goldkorn from DANWEI asked: Will porn get Baidu Japan blocked in China?
China: Mao Zedong condoms
Letters from China posted an ad from Nanyuan Road bus stop in Suzhou: it sells condoms in packages bearing the image of Mao Zedong.
China: Nail House Disappeared From Internet
Huge reported that the news about Nail House from Chongqing had disappeared from the Internet in China within two hours: people just wanted to criticize developers, now that the Internet police stepped in, people would scold the government… (zh)
China: criminalizing seditious speech
Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated the story / interview with Yu Quanyu, the CPPCC member who proposed a law criminalizing seditious speech at this year's congressional sessions, from the most recent issue of Southern People Weekly.
Hong Kong: Google blogger sharing meeting
Jacky blogs about the Google blogger sharing meeting. It is organized by google public relation company in Hong Kong, more like a product advertisement talk (zh).
China: you are too CCTV!
Zhaihua picked up the recent catch phrase “you are too CCTV!” and explained that apart from China Central Television, it stands for closed-circuit television(zh).
Hong Kong: local action and 318 rally
Thanks Roland for translating the details of Local Action rally in March 18 from Inmediahk.net. Indeed, there were no mainstream news report about the police abuse and the rationality of the rally.
Japan: Tokyo election and nationalism
James from Japan Probe blogs about the Tokyo governor candidates’ stand and debate on nationalism, in particular to the policy of coercing teachers to stand and sing the national anthem ‘Kimigayo’.
South Korea: what not to post in blog
A blogger posted about his pot-smoking experience in the Netherlands on his blog and got busted for doing drugs overseas – Robert Koehler from Marmot's Hole.
China: nationalism and Olympic
David Bandurski from China Media Project post a translation of a recent editorial in Southern Metropolis Daily, which argues that China's well-publicized appetite for Olympic gold has become a kind of Midas touch, spoiling the spirit of friendship and harmony that the Games have come to symbolize.
China: nail house
The picture of “nail house” from Chongqing has been widely spread in BBS and mainstream media. Lyn Jeffery from virtual China gives some more background about the case. DANWEI also has a report, puts the discussion under the context of the recent property law.
China: reading property law
Postive solution blogs about his reading of the newly passed property law in China: while private property was the most eye-catching section of the law, the focus was in fact on problems with State-owned property.
