Oiwan Lam · April, 2008

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from April, 2008

Japan: Suicide Phenomenon

Asiajin blogs a new suicide phenomenon by creating lethal hydrogen sulfide gas in Japan. The method is widely spread in the Internet.

25 April 2008

South Korea: Pro Tibet Mobilization

CINA forecasts a pro-Tibet protest during the Olympic Torch relay in Seoul the coming Sunday. According to the blogger, the extreme right to the left and the liberals will have...

25 April 2008

China: Biggest Carrefour in the World

Xueyong criticized the Carrefour boycott and pointed out that the rise of China is related to the growth of global retailing stores like Carrefour as most of their products are...

25 April 2008

China: City Control Team

Ceng ying commented that the city control team acted like an anti-government propaganda team when they rid the street vendors out of the city [zh].

25 April 2008

China: GFW-ed Media Research

ESWN translated a local media research on three big news agencies’ Olympic torch relay report. Beifeng pointed out that the research result had been affected by the Great Fire wall...

24 April 2008

China: CNN, Media and Market

Yang Hengjun wrote a very elaborated article on the CNN bias in reporting about Middle East and China. A crucial factor is the patriotic sentiment after 911 which reshaped the...

24 April 2008

China: Anti-CNN Virtual Demonstration

Some netizens in China have organized a virtual demonstration against western media and in support of the Beijing Olympics at the Second City (a virtual game). via Anti-CNN.

24 April 2008

Macau: 5000 Tips from the Government

The Macau government decided to give every citizen 5000 dollars for relieving the inflation problem. Long ching noticed that rather than appreciating such move, people are skeptical of the policy...

23 April 2008

China: Grace Wang's Essay

ESWN puts together comments from various sources and translates a Chinese article from my1510 criticizing Grace Wang's essay in the Washington Post.

23 April 2008

China: Anti anti-CNN

Anti in nationonline.com (a nationalistic website) urged people to anti “anti-CNN” and criticized that the anti-CNN is run by commercial organization.

23 April 2008

China: Anti-CNN An Unlawful Website?

Unbending Notes found out that anti-cnn.com hasn't been registered properly according to the requirement by the ministry of information industry [zh]. The domain is registered under the Jim from Tsinghua...

22 April 2008

China: A History of Red Heart

Recently many netizens in China joined the campaign in hanging a red heart in their msn signatures. 1bao posted an article written by Qian Gang about the history of red...

22 April 2008

China: American Teacher Attacked

Love Hunan posted at Zhuzhouwang about an American teacher being beaten up by secondary school students[zh] outside Carrefour in Hunan Zhuzhou district in April 20. Shanghaiist has an update.

22 April 2008

China: Comment on Grace Wang's Article

Tu Zhu xi from my1510.com comments on Grace Wang's article in Washington Post. The blogger feels that Wang has turned herself into people's enemy because she has allowed herself to...

22 April 2008