Oiwan Lam · March, 2007

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.

27 March 2007

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...

27 March 2007

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.

27 March 2007

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.

27 March 2007

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).

26 March 2007

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.

26 March 2007

China: World Factory?

Jacky and EPIN have translated a post from China Labour Watch on a Japanese businessman views China.

26 March 2007

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...

26 March 2007

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.

26 March 2007

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...

26 March 2007

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...

23 March 2007

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).

23 March 2007

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...

22 March 2007

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...

22 March 2007

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...

22 March 2007

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...

22 March 2007

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...

21 March 2007