Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from July, 2007
China: More about fake buns story
ESWN translated a Southern Metropolis Daily story that gives some background about how people figure out that the cardboard baozi (or buns) was a fake story.
China: Individual Domains Blogs are All Illegal
Yee translated a blogger dialogue with Shanghai Communication Administration on phone about the closing down of individual domains blogs because they apply the regulation to forums and BSPs to blogs.
Macau: Macau University of Science and Technology
Onemanbandwidth blogged about the public complaints about the management, false promise in marketing and corruption of the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST).
China: Funny Typos
ESWN translated a blog post from Sohoxiaobao on some funny typographic mistakes that have political implication.
China: Fake News On Cardboard Buns
Last night, Beijing News Channel reported that the Cardboard Buns was a faked news directed by one of their reporter who made a public statement that he had paid the hawker to make the cardboard Buns or Baozi. However, Nu Qui Lu-wei from 1510 wondered whether the statement of the...
Hong Kong: Copycat Advertisement
Recently the Association of Accredited Advertising Agencies of Hong Kong are celebrating the 50 years of Advertising industry, however, their advertisement is a copycat of Phillip Toledano's Hope and Fear series — arttacker from Pandemonium (zh).
Hong Kong: Another Scandalous Advice from TELA
ESWN translated local reports on another scandalous advice given by Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) about distribution of indecency in the annual international book fair. This time their target is a classical painting of Cupid and Psyche.
South Korea: New Labour Law
Jamie has explained key issues concerning the Korean new labour law controversies at interlocals.net.
China: Stock cheat's blog and Internet regulation
Maya from DANWEI reported on how the investigation of a cheating investment blog ended up in a call for internet regulation. The blogger rightly pointed out that: Pioneer Eldest Brother exploited this combination of investor naiveté and information vacuum, but scouring the Internet for charlatans is not the best way...
China: An anti-slavery law for China?
Donald Clark from Chinese Law Prof Blog introduced a proposed amendment to the Criminal Law defining and criminalizing slavery proposed by a lawyer and activist Wu Ge.
China: Nanjing forced out by Transformers
A serious documentary film Nanjing was forced out from the theater by a commercial movie Transformers, Joel Martinsen from DANWEI translated a few pieces that addressed the issue.
Taiwan: In memory of Yang Dechang
Chong has translated an article by Leung Man Tao at interlocals.net about a Taiwanese film director Yang Dechang who has recently passed away. The writer describes the director as a prophet not welcome by his country.
Japan: Asia-Pacific Internet Usage
Nicholls from Japundit reported on the first comprehensive review of Internet behavior covering 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region released by comScore: The average person in the Asia-Pacific region visited the Internet on 13.8 days in the month and spent 20.2 hours viewing 2,171 pages.
South Korea: nationalist photoshopping
Japan netizen found out some South Korea newspapers had done a nationalist photoshopping by erasing the Japanese National flag of a news photo – James from Japan Probe.
Japan: Nanotech fragrant Pencil
Edo from Pink techacle introduces a new type of pencil lead that combined the power of nanotechnology with the knowledge of expert aromatherapists. It claims to help the children to wake up in class room by smelling the pencil lead.
Japan: Ramen Bath
James from Japan Probe reports on a Theme Park's idea of Ramen Bath.
Japan: We Can't Trust The Testimony Of Black People
Debito reports on a court case about a Nigerian, UC Valentine, being denied of medical treatment after police abuse in 2003. Consequently, his leg injury became so medically traumatized that it required complex hospital operations. The case was put on court in 2005 but a testimony of an African was...
Taiwan: Tales From The Martial Law Era
ESWN has collected and translated informations and details on banned books and songs from the martial law era in Taiwan 20 years ago.
Hong Kong: Selective Prosecution on Illegal Broadcasting
The Office of Telecommunication Authority had decided to prosecute guest speakers from a Civic radio channel which organized public broadcast illegally to protest against the government strict control over radio frequencies. Many politicians have spoken at the illegal channel as guest speakers, however, the OTA has selectively prosecuted two of...
Hong Kong: Signature Campaign Against Flickr Filtering
HKxforce launched a signature campaign against flickr filtering policy in Hong Kong. The petition demands Yahoo! to adjust the filtering policy in Hong Kong so that adult users are free to choose and view “unsafe” content. It also demands more transparency in categorizing the content, let the users know the...
China: You're killing me!
A hilarious post by positive solution on his day-to-day toxic life.
