Oiwan Lam · August, 2008

Latest posts by Oiwan Lam from August, 2008

China: Weather Intervention

  26 August 2008

During the Olympics, the Beijing government created artificial rain to secure good weather for the opening and closing ceremonies. Lui Li said that if the government had plan to intervene...

China: Olympic Regrets

  26 August 2008

Chen XueLei reflected upon his Olympic experience since 7 years ago when Beijing applied for the hosting city. Now that the Beijing Olympics has obtained great success on stage, the...

China: Brain Damaged Netizen Syndrome

  25 August 2008

WangXiaofeng listed out 13 symptoms for indicating whether a netizen is suffered from brain damage. The symptoms include a compulsion to read and comment posts even they don't really understand...

South Korea: Racism

  22 August 2008

Ask a Korean! discusses about the different stands in racism by using the Spanish basketball players’ photo.

China: Protesters’ Trap

  22 August 2008

Two 80 years old protesters was sent to labour education camp as they insisted to demonstrate in the Olympic protest area. Zhongoutese was very angry and said that the Olympic...

China: Victims of Sport

  22 August 2008

Xueyong traced the fate of two sportswomen, Guo ping and Zhou Chun-Lai, both were medal carriers and suffered from hardship after their retirement in early age. According to statistic, 40%...

China: He Kexin and “babygate”

  22 August 2008

Imagethief picks up the debate on the age issue of He Kexin, the golden girl of Chinese gymnastics, and notices a cold-war double standard in some of the mainstream media...

China: Athletes / Soldiers

  22 August 2008

Laowiseass noticed Chinese state-run media had applied a troops-athletes metaphor in their report about Olympic victory. The blogger also pointed out that many Chinese regard the soldier-like training of athletes...

Korea: Selling Tourism

  21 August 2008

Robert Koehler from Marmot's Hole summarized a local magazine's discussion over the lack of selling points regarding Korean Tourism.

China: Only Gold Medal Matters?

  21 August 2008

Luqiu Luwei from my1510 criticizes the Chinese mainstream media for giving too much attention to the gold medal winners as if other medal winners or participants haven't been performing good...

China: Hua Guofeng

  21 August 2008

DANWEI has a sum up on mainstream report and blogosphere commentary on the passing away of old communist leader Hua Guofeng.

China: Sportswear Sponsor

  21 August 2008

Xueyong noticed that Liu Xiang's withdrawal from Olympics has resulted in the loss of 3 billion yuan for his sportswear sponsors. The blogger pointed out that the focus on one...

China: Gay Olympics

  21 August 2008

Shanghai Fag Hag from Shanghaiist wrote about Gay sport competition in Shanghai hosted by an organization called Rainbow League.

China: Earthquake 100 days

  21 August 2008

Aug 19 is the 100 days of Sichuan earthquake, Wang Ning posted photos of Beichuan earthquake zone for memorizing the deaths.